What Child is This? : Complete Ukulele Tutorial & Sing-along

Posted by on December 22nd 2020 @ 5:36 pm

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The lyrics of this beloved carol hail from 1865, paired to the gorgeous tune of ‘Greensleeves’ from the late renaissance, first published in 1580. I have never cared much for it as a melancholy love song, but adore the song as a Christmas carol. It reminds me a little of the transformation that more modernly the tune ‘Stewball’ was morphed into John Lennon’s Happy Xmas Was is Over … another vast improvement over the original lyrics.

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