The Wexford Carol | Christmas Best

The Wexford Carol
Music and Text: Irish carol
Arrangement: Mack Wilberg

This most famous of all Irish Christmas carols, known in the original language as “Carúl Loch Garman,” was thought to date back as early as the 12th century. Though its rhyme scheme and melodic structure suggest a Renaissance-period origin, the haunting modal melody at least evokes an earlier time. This carol was not widely known outside of Ireland until William Grattan Ford, organist at the cathedral in Enniscorthy, County Wexford, transcribed it from a local singer and had it published in the 1928 Oxford Book of Carols.

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