Track Listing
- "New Year Carol - Residue" (Traditional) (2:57)
- The meaning of the title "Residue" is unknown.
- "Sugar Wassail" (Trad) (2:12)
- From Rev Broadwood's collection
- "St George" (John Kirkpatrick) (2:50)
- Kirkpatrick's song is similar to words in the Mummer's Play
- "May Song" (Trad) (2:44)
- From Fred Hamer's collection, combining the "Night Song" and the "Day Song" into one.
- "Christ Made a Trance" (Trad) (2:32)
- Solo from Martin Carthy. A grim Passiontide vision of Christ's pain
- "When Jesus Wept The Falling Tear" (W Billings) (2:24)
- Sung as a round.
- "Cherry Tree Carol" (Trad) (4:20)
- A song for Epiphany.
- "Reaphook and Sickle" (Trad) (2:48)
- A song for the end of harvest
- "Jack Frost" (Mike Waterson) (4:33)
- Eliza sings lead. A description of a frosty scene
- "While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks" (Trad) (5:17)
- From Yorkshire, but not the familiar tune.
- "On Christmas Day It Happened So" (Trad) (2:43)
- From Hamer's "Garners Gay". Sung by Tim van Eyken. A ploughman is punished for ploughing on Christmas Day.
- "Time to Remembered the Poor" (M Lolley (?)) (4:40)
- A poetic plea for charity.
- "Jacobstowe Wassail" (Trad) (2:50)
- A Wassail song from the Devon village of Jacobstowe, from the Baring-Gould collection.
- "Awake Awake" (Trad) (4:06)
- Not the same song as the one by Steelye Span.
- "Diadem" (Traditional) (3:28)
- From Yorkshire. Christ portrayed as a king.
- "Jolly Old Hawk" (Traditional) (2:51)
- A Somerset carol from The Twelve Days of Christmas family of songs.
- "Gloryland (Baptist hymn)" (Sankey) (3:40)
- A flowing, soaring description of heaven.
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