{"id":7865,"date":"2014-12-01T07:46:35","date_gmt":"2014-12-01T11:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7865"},"modified":"2019-11-08T09:45:54","modified_gmt":"2019-11-08T13:45:54","slug":"the-cherry-tree-carol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7865","title":{"rendered":"The Cherry Tree Carol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/images\/J&amp;M.png\" width=\"500\/\"\/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"audio\">\n<div class=\"alignright caption\"> <a href=\"?page_id=6069\">How do I download this Mp3?<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"audio_link\"> Mp3: <a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/music\/J&amp;M.mp3\"> The Cherry Tree Carol &#8211; Click To Play<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"about\">\nBrought to you from the 15th century, this carol (Child Ballad 54) tells the story of Mary and Joseph before the baby Jesus was born.<\/p>\n<div class=\"lyrics-header\">Lyrics:<\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics\">\n        [F] JOSEPH was an old man,<br \/>\nand an old man was he,<br \/>\n[When he courted lovely [Dm] Mary,<br \/>\nthe queen of [F] Galilee. X2]<\/p>\n<p>Joseph and Mary walked<br \/>\nthrough an orchard good,<br \/>\nWhere was cherries and berries,<br \/>\nso red as any blood. X2<\/p>\n<p>Joseph and Mary walked<br \/>\nthrough an orchard green,<br \/>\nWhere was berries and cherries,<br \/>\nas thick as might be seen. X2<\/p>\n<p>O then bespoke Mary,<br \/>\nso meek and so mild:<br \/>\n&#8220;Pluck me one cherry, Joseph,<br \/>\nfor I am with child.&#8221; X2<\/p>\n<p>O then bespoke Joseph,<br \/>\nwith words most unkind:<br \/>\n&#8220;Let him pluck thee a cherry<br \/>\nthat brought thee with child.&#8221; X2<\/p>\n<p>O then bespoke the babe,<br \/>\nfrom within his mother&#8217;s womb:<br \/>\n&#8220;Bow down then the tallest tree,<br \/>\nfor my mother to have some.&#8221; X2<\/p>\n<p>Then bowed down the highest tree<br \/>\nunto his mother&#8217;s hand;<br \/>\nShe cried, See, dear Joseph,<br \/>\nI have cherries at command.X2<\/p>\n<p>O then bespoke Joseph:<br \/>\n&#8220;I have done Mary wrong;<br \/>\nBut cheer up, my dearest,<br \/>\nand be not thou cast down.&#8221; X2<\/p>\n<p>Then Mary plucked a cherry,<br \/>\nas red as the blood,<br \/>\nThen Mary went homeward<br \/>\nwith her heavy load.X2<\/p>\n<p>Then Mary took her babe,<br \/>\nand sat him down on her knee,<br \/>\nSaying, My dear son, please tell me<br \/>\nwhat this world will be.X2<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;O I shall be as dead, mother,<br \/>\nas the stones in this wall;<br \/>\nO the stones in the streets, mother,<br \/>\nshall mourn for me all.X2<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Upon Easter-day, mother,<br \/>\nmy uprising shall be;<br \/>\nO the sun and the moon, mother,<br \/>\nshall both rise with me.&#8221; X2<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/strong><strong><\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do I download this Mp3? Mp3: The Cherry Tree Carol &#8211; Click To Play Brought to you from the 15th century, this carol (Child Ballad 54) tells the story of Mary and Joseph before the baby Jesus was born. Lyrics: [F] JOSEPH was an old man, and an old man was he, [When he &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7865\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Cherry Tree Carol&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irishbritish","category-seasonal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7865"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8868,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7865\/revisions\/8868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}