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Sing We All Merrily

Lady Maisery and Jimmy Aldridge & Sid Goldsmith sang Sing We All Merrily on their 2019 winter album Awake, Arise. They noted:

A song that celebrates winter as a time for singing, for gathering. An opportunity to recoup and reflect, and for caking stock of the year.

Hannah [James] rewrote and added verses to this song, originally collected from the singing of Linda Welch by Ralph Vaughan Williams in Adderbury, Oxfordshire, 1918.

Lyrics

Lady Maisery and Jimmy Aldridge & Sid Goldsmith sing Sing We All Merrily

Now winter is here we will draw round the fire
Sister and brother and grandson and sire
Christians and heathens their voices will bring
Gather together, make merry and sing

Sing we all merrily and sing with good cheer
For the day we love best of the days of the year
Bring out the holly, the box and the bay
Deck out our cottage for glad Christmas Day

Sing we all merrily and sing with good cheer
Talk of the absent and wish they were here
Sisters at service and brothers away
Oh how I wish they were with us today

Sing we all merrily and sing with great mirth
Sing loud and joyful for peace upon earth
Parents and children down icy streets walk
Hasten to together to lighten the dark