Down in Yon Forrest the refrain lines are: sing may, queen may, sing mary sing all good men for the newborn baby verses: down in yon forest be a hall 'tis coverlidded over with purple and pall and in that hall is a pallet bed 'tis stained with blood a scarlet red and by that bed there lies a stone on which the virgin did atone and under that hall is a gushing flood from christ's own side hit's water and blood and by that bed a shrub tree grows since he was born hit blooms and blows and on that bed a young squire sleeps his wounds are sick, and see, he weeps o hail yon hall where none can sin 'cause hit's gold outside and silver within indeed collected and arranged by John Jacob Niles, and the copyright (1935) must therefore refer to the arrangement. the tune is quite different from the corpus christi carol... ER oct99
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