From Wikipedia: "Corpus Christi Carol is a Middle or Early Modern English hymn (or carol), first found by an apprentice grocer named Richard Hill in a manuscript written around 1504. The original writer of the carol remains anonymous."
Carloman's version is derived from the orchestration and melody written by Benjamin Britten in 1933.
lyrics
Corpus Christi Carol
He bare him up, he bare him down,
He bare him into an orchard brown.
Lully, lully, lully, lully
The faucon hath born my make away.
In that orchard there was an hall,
It was hanged with purple and pall.
And in that hall there was a bed,
It was hanged with gold and red.
Lully, lully, lully, lully
The faucon hath born my make away.
And in that bed there lieth a knight,
His woundes bleeding day and night.
By that bedside kneeleth a may,
And she weepeth both night and day.
Lully, lully, lully, lully
The faucon hath born my make away.
Lully, lully, lully, lully
The faucon hath born my make away.
By that bedside standeth a stone,
Corpus Christi written thereon.
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