At Christmas play and make good cheer,
For Christmas comes but once a year.
Thomas Tusser, A Hundred Points of Good Husbandry (1557)
This is the fifth Christmas season since I began A Folk Song A Week. For those who have only discovered the blog more recently or, indeed, for anyone who fancies a quick recap, here’s a list of all the songs I’ve posted in previous Advent and Christmas seasons:
Week 15 – One Cold Morning in December / The Drunkard and the Pig
Week 16 – Have you not heard / The man that lives
Week 17 – The Holly and the Ivy / Christmas now is drawing near at hand
Week 19 – The Moon Shines Bright
Week 68 – Lo! The Eastern Sages Rise / Hark Hark What News
Week 69 – This is the truth sent from above
Week 70 – The Boar’s Head Carol / Babes in the Wood / The King
Week 119 – The Seven Joys of Mary
Week 120 – The Shepherds Amazed
Week 121 – Saint Stephen / Rejoice and be Merry
Week 122 – Hymn for Christmas Day / Sellwood Mollineux’ Carol / Newton’s Double
Week 123 – The Mistletoe Bough
Week 171 – As Shepherds Watched Their Fleecy Care
Week 174 – Sweet Chiming Bells
Week 175 – The Trees are All Bare
Week 176 – The Somerset Wassail
Week 224 – All Hail and Praise
A Folk Song a Week 
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