Time to sing more carols. Loudly, please.

You all know that great Christmas carol that goes, 'Deck us all with Boston Charlie', right? Here are today's answers.

1. God bless the master of this house, the mistress bless also, and all the little children that round the table go…
2. Adam lay ybounden, bounden in a bond, four thousand winter thought he not too long. (Don't complain, Brits: this is one of your carols.)
3. Joseph was an old man, an old man was he, when he married Virgin Mary, the queen of Galilee.
4. O sisters too, how may we do for to preserve this day, This poor youngling for whom we sing, "Bye bye, lully, lullay"?
5. Do you see what I see? A star, a star dancing in the night, with a tail as big as a kite.
6. I wonder as I wander out under the sky, how Jesus the saviour did come for to die for poor ord'n'ry people like you and like I. (Okay, fair cop, it's American.)
7. The tree of life my soul has seen, laden with fruit and always green…
8. Truly he taught us to love one another, his law is love and his gospel is peace.
9. Snow had fallen, snow on snow, snow on snow, in the bleak midwinter, long, long ago. (That was a lot of snow.)
10. Joy to the earth! The Saviour reigns; Let men their songs employ; While fields and floods, rocks, hills, and plains repeat the sounding joy.

Take this page along with you when you go carolling. And if you run out of words, sing 'Hallelujah' a lot.

Dmitri Gheorgheni

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