Holy Heathens and The Old Green Man - Track Listing

Track Listing

1. "New Year Carol - Residue" (Traditional) (2:57)

   The meaning of the title "Residue" is unknown.

2. "Sugar Wassail" (Trad) (2:12)

   From Rev Broadwood's collection

3. "St George" (John Kirkpatrick) (2:50)

   Kirkpatrick's song is similar to words in the Mummer's Play

4. "May Song" (Trad) (2:44)

   From Fred Hamer's collection, combining the "Night Song" and the "Day Song" into one.

5. "Christ Made a Trance" (Trad) (2:32)

   Solo from Martin Carthy. A grim Passiontide vision of Christ's pain

6. "When Jesus Wept The Falling Tear" (W Billings) (2:24)

   Sung as a round.

7. "Cherry Tree Carol" (Trad) (4:20)

   A song for Epiphany.

8. "Reaphook and Sickle" (Trad) (2:48)

   A song for the end of harvest

9. "Jack Frost" (Mike Waterson) (4:33)

   Eliza sings lead. A description of a frosty scene

10. "While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks" (Trad) (5:17)

    From Yorkshire, but not the familiar tune.

11. "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.

12. "Time to Remembered the Poor" (M Lolley (?)) (4:40)

    A poetic plea for charity.

13. "Jacobstowe Wassail" (Trad) (2:50)

    A Wassail song from the Devon village of Jacobstowe, from the Baring-Gould collection.

14. "Awake Awake" (Trad) (4:06)

    Not the same song as the one by Steelye Span.

15. "Diadem" (Traditional) (3:28)

    From Yorkshire. Christ portrayed as a king.

16. "Jolly Old Hawk" (Traditional) (2:51)

    A Somerset carol from The Twelve Days of Christmas family of songs.

17. "Gloryland (Baptist hymn)" (Sankey) (3:40)

    A flowing, soaring description of heaven.