Name: Christmas is Now Drawing Near at Hand
Duration: P00H03M49S
Description: A traditional English Christmas song collected by Vaughan Williams in Herefordshire, c. 1913.

Christmas is Now Drawing Near at Hand

from Fields of Frost by Rowan : Morrison

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A traditional English Christmas song collected by Vaughan Williams in Herefordshire, c. 1913.

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Christmas is now drawing near at hand
Come serve the Lord and be at His command
And God a portion for you will provide
And give a blessing to your soul besides

Down in the garden where flowers grow in ranks
Down on your bended knees and give the Lord thanks
Down on your knees and pray both night and day
Leave off your sins and live upright I pray

So proud and lofty is some sort of sin
Which many take delight and pleasure in
Whose conversation God doth much dislike
And yet He shakes His sword before He strike

So proud and lofty do some people go
Dressing themselves like players in a show
They patch and paint and dress with idle stuff
As if God had not made 'em fine enough

Even little children learn to curse and swear
And can't rehearse one word of godly prayer
Oh teach them better, oh teach them to rely
On Christ the sinner's friend who reigns on high

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from Fields of Frost, released December 31, 2019
Trad. Arr. Morrison

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Rowan Morrison England, UK

Rowan : Morrison are the musical twixting of The Rowan Amber Mill and Angeline Morrison. Angeline has released music as We Are Muffy (Tapete Records), The Mighty Sceptres (Ubiquity Records), The Ambassadors of Sorrow, and solo (Freestyle Records).
The Rowan Amber Mill releases music under their own name and under the guise of Making Tea for Robots (both on the MillerSounds label). ... more

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