Words: Charles Causley; Music & Arrangement © Gordon Bok
Kate Barnes of Appleton, Maine, sent me this poem. After thinking about it for a couple of years I spent the corners of a winter working out this tune and arranging it for the chorus. The Quasi Modals, of course, helped me sort out the problems (we're still working on that part.)
Gordon and Quasi Modal Chorus.
Lord, the snowful sky
In this pale December
Fingers my clear eye
Lest seeing I remember
Not the naked baby
Weeping in the stable
Nor the singing boys
All round my table.
Not the dizzy star
Bursting on the pane
Nor the leopard sun
Pawing the rain
Only the deep garden
Where green lilies grown
And the sailors rolling
In the sea's blue snow.
Sailor's Carol is recorded on the album Schooners