I love The Three Drovers, one of the Australian Christmas Carols, which I guess is only known by us Australians. There are many other lovely Australian carols written by the same composers, William James & John Wheeler.
I had a CD of NZ Christmas Carols, my favourite of which was "Upside Down Christmas" It started with the lines - Carol our Christmas our upside down Christmas, snow is not falling and trees are not bare. Carol our summer and worship the Christ Child born in the sunshine and sweetness of air"
It was by the late Shirley Murray and I haven't heard it sung for years.
The Herefordshire Advent carol 'This is the truth sent from above' heralds Christmas for me. The eerie melody sends shivers up my spine. I can't say it's infrequently performed, though.
I too like it but - in a comment which will provoke rage among some posting here - I once again prefer to hear it sung as a folk carol rather than in RVW's arrangement (not that that is by any means poor).
I too like it but - in a comment which will provoke rage among some posting here - I once again prefer to hear it sung as a folk carol rather than in RVW's arrangement (not that that is by any means poor).
No rage here. I enjoy exploring other versions of music I love.
I too like it but - in a comment which will provoke rage among some posting here - I once again prefer to hear it sung as a folk carol rather than in RVW's arrangement (not that that is by any means poor).
I tend to think orchestral or choral arrangements of a folk song need to be looked at (or heard) as things separate from the folk song they’re an arrangement of. Arrangements of them can certainly be beautiful, but the folk songs often have an innate, simple beauty that orchestras or choirs by their very nature can’t capture.
Let All Mortal Flesh is one that is frequently in the Eucharist sections of hymnals, but it was in the Advent section of our hymnal growing up, and I always like it in that context.
Definitely misplaced as an Advent hymn. Its origin is as the equivalent of an "Offertery Hymn" in Eastern Rite liturgies (when the bread and wine are carried to the Holy Table). It appears as such in the Divine Liturgy of Saint James (used in a few places on St James' day [October 23rd] and on the Sunday after Christmas [when St James is also commemorated]). It is also specified for the Divine Liturgy of St Basil on Holy Saturday.
[Interesting and irrelevant side point: the most usual traditional Russian melody for this hymn begins with the same four notes as the tune "Picardy".]
That's what I meant: Cantata 2 of the 6 which make up the Oratorio.
Many years ago the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra put on six "twilight" concerts (6pm or thereabouts) in different London churches: three on alternate days before Christmas, three on alternate days after. We went to two. Each concert contained one of Bach's Motets, one of his Brandenburg Concerti, and one part of the Oratorio. Most satisfying!
I too like it but - in a comment which will provoke rage among some posting here - I once again prefer to hear it sung as a folk carol rather than in RVW's arrangement (not that that is by any means poor).
I tend to think orchestral or choral arrangements of a folk song need to be looked at (or heard) as things separate from the folk song they’re an arrangement of. Arrangements of them can certainly be beautiful, but the folk songs often have an innate, simple beauty that orchestras or choirs by their very nature can’t capture.
Indeed, and I think the opposite is true as well, especially when you apply different harmonizations to the tune. One of the things I'm constantly drubbing into my middle school students is the idea that there simply doesn't have to be (and on a number of levels really cannot be) a hierarchy of music.
That's what I meant: Cantata 2 of the 6 which make up the Oratorio.
Many years ago the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra put on six "twilight" concerts (6pm or thereabouts) in different London churches: three on alternate days before Christmas, three on alternate days after. We went to two. Each concert contained one of Bach's Motets, one of his Brandenburg Concerti, and one part of the Oratorio. Most satisfying!
As Bach no doubt intended it (at least the six individual cantatas being performed separately)!
Gonna add another carol to the Most Deserving but seemingly under-performed list that also happens to be harmonized by JS Bach (English text by Percy Dearmer): O little one sweet (O Jesulein süß). Not the easiest carol, especially a cappella, but charming, and well, sweet.
One of the things I'm constantly drubbing into my middle school students is the idea that there simply doesn't have to be (and on a number of levels really cannot be) a hierarchy of music.
Absolutely! I like the line attributed to variously to Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong and Gioachino Rossini—“There are two kinds of music: good music and the other kind.”
That's what I meant: Cantata 2 of the 6 which make up the Oratorio.
Many years ago the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra put on six "twilight" concerts (6pm or thereabouts) in different London churches: three on alternate days before Christmas, three on alternate days after. We went to two. Each concert contained one of Bach's Motets, one of his Brandenburg Concerti, and one part of the Oratorio. Most satisfying!
Let All Mortal Flesh is one that is frequently in the Eucharist sections of hymnals, but it was in the Advent section of our hymnal growing up, and I always like it in that context.
Definitely misplaced as an Advent hymn. Its origin is as the equivalent of an "Offertery Hymn" in Eastern Rite liturgies (when the bread and wine are carried to the Holy Table). It appears as such in the Divine Liturgy of Saint James (used in a few places on St James' day [October 23rd] and on the Sunday after Christmas [when St James is also commemorated]). It is also specified for the Divine Liturgy of St Basil on Holy Saturday.
[Interesting and irrelevant side point: the most usual traditional Russian melody for this hymn begins with the same four notes as the tune "Picardy".]
Ah, but origins don't always dictate (but should always inform) current use
One of the things I'm constantly drubbing into my middle school students is the idea that there simply doesn't have to be (and on a number of levels really cannot be) a hierarchy of music.
Absolutely! I like the line attributed to variously to Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong and Gioachino Rossini—“There are two kinds of music: good music and the other kind.”
With over 70 years of singing in school, church and secular choirs I know and love the majority of carols mentioned so far (though not the Australian and Cornish ones).
This year I am not keen on or actively dislike most of those chosen for my three choirs, especially Bob Chilcott’s On Christmas Night, which incorporates a number of traditional carols but messes them about.
After ploughing our way through a rehearsal of these, the DoM turned to ‘Have yourself a merry little Christmas’.( arr. L’ Estrange) “At last, something Christmassy,” said my neighbour.
After ploughing our way through a rehearsal of these, the DoM turned to ‘Have yourself a merry little Christmas’.( arr. L’ Estrange) “At last, something Christmassy,” said my neighbour.
I do hope that’s with the original (originally recorded, at least, and in my opinion, correct) words:
Through the years we all will be together
if the fates allow.
Until then we’ll have to muddle through somehow.
If anyone wishes me to explode and to be splattered with my internal organs and their contents, including 'Have yourself a merry little Christmas’ in a Carol Service is quite a good way of guaranteeing that denouement.
If anyone wishes me to explode and to be splattered with my internal organs and their contents, including 'Have yourself a merry little Christmas’ in a Carol Service is quite a good way of guaranteeing that denouement.
Yeah, I can’t for the life of me imagine why “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” would appear in a church service.
After ploughing our way through a rehearsal of these, the DoM turned to ‘Have yourself a merry little Christmas’.( arr. L’ Estrange) “At last, something Christmassy,” said my neighbour.
I do hope that’s with the original (originally recorded, at least, and in my opinion, correct) words:
Through the years we all will be together
if the fates allow.
Until then we’ll have to muddle through somehow.
I prefer the original words as well, @Nick Tamen . Please allow me one correction to the above: It's "Some day soon we all will be together...." The whole tone of the lyrics is about things being better in the future, befitting a wartime story (1944).
Thanks for this wonderful thread. I have lots of listening to do!
Maybe someone should start such a thread (in Hell, I suppose)!
I'd banish the following:
O little town of Bethlehem*
Away in a manger
Silent night
Ding! dong! merrily on high
See amid the winter's snow
Once in royal David's city
Hark! the herald angels sing
*Notwithstanding the lovely RVW tune Forest Green...although AIUI there is a sort of modern version of the song, which reflects the brutal reality of the conflict in today's Middle East...
I tend to think orchestral or choral arrangements of a folk song need to be looked at (or heard) as things separate from the folk song they’re an arrangement of. Arrangements of them can certainly be beautiful, but the folk songs often have an innate, simple beauty that orchestras or choirs by their very nature can’t capture.
After ploughing our way through a rehearsal of these, the DoM turned to ‘Have yourself a merry little Christmas’.( arr. L’ Estrange) “At last, something Christmassy,” said my neighbour.
I do hope that’s with the original (originally recorded, at least, and in my opinion, correct) words:
Through the years we all will be together
if the fates allow.
Until then we’ll have to muddle through somehow.
I prefer the original words as well, @Nick Tamen . Please allow me one correction to the above: It's "Some day soon we all will be together...." The whole tone of the lyrics is about things being better in the future, befitting a wartime story (1944).
And, in the context of the movie that contained the song, a family about to move from the home and community it loved.
And thanks for the correction! I knew something wasn't right.
If there was a thread for most disliked carol, then top of the list for me would be O Holy Night 🤮
I’m pretty sure we’ve had such threads over the years, though they’re all in Limbo or Oblivion by now, I’m sure.
I’m with you on “O Holy Night.” I can bear it if it’s sung in French (and when I’ve been asked to sing it, I’ve insisted on French.) Otherwise, just no.
There is a category of carols that, in my mind, can be beautiful but also can be horrible and overdone. “Silent Night” is in that category for me. It can be lovely, but much too often is not.
Thank you. Not that I am criticising those who love it, but I always felt guilty or was missing something as I thought I was the only one who wasn't overly enamoured of it. I love its creation story, and I don't mind it, but I don't have the same love those around me do. Nice to know I'm not alone.
Thank you for sharing many new ones I shall listen to. While I love organs and brass, a folk melody can grab me like none other - Noël Nouvelet (if it is one, I am quite musically illiterate) being one I like.
I spose I better not own up to having been in a band that played Slades "here it is merry Christmas " at the end of a carol service.
As the one who got to transcribe it I discovered that it's much more complex than it sounds.
I often wonder what audiences want to hear when they listen to the choir’s contribution to a carol concert. In my view, they enjoy
1) something gentle and well-sung eg O little One sweet, Bethlehem Down,
2) something lively, raucous even, well-known, jolly, maybe to sing along to.
I don’t think they enjoy the ones that are tricky, with odd rhythms, or too show-offy. That rules out most of my 2 choral societies’ contributions this year.
I do like something new. Even if it does not appeal and I wish to forget it as soon as I leave the church, it is interesting to to hear new music and see what others find appealing.
I may be odd but I don't mind the occasional "show off" piece. But I know people for whom this is a foretaste of Gehenna. I do find, no idea what the word is, songs where two different texts are sung over each other (Three Kings from Persian Lands Afar, for example) difficult to follow, but that is me and I enjoy what I can make out (and the melody in that instance).
On hymns I rarely hear, and this one I've never heard "live", only on a CD I bought (may say something...), I do like the seldom-used adjective in Where is this stupendous stranger?, and the last verse:
God all-bounteous, all-creative,
whom no ills from good dissuade,
is incarnate, and a native
of the very world he made.
On hymns I rarely hear, and this one I've never heard "live", only on a CD I bought (may say something...), I do like the seldom-used adjective in Where is this stupendous stranger?, and the last verse:
God all-bounteous, all-creative,
whom no ills from good dissuade,
is incarnate, and a native
of the very world he made.
I was trying to figure out where I remembered that from and it's Hymn 41 in the New English Hymnal. The tune I know is Ottery St. Mary, an oddly dark tune for these words, but I like it. The text is by Christopher Smart.
I've been listening to the D'Aquin Noels for organ in the car lately. As I recall they're based on traditional French carol tunes... perfect organ music for Christmas.
After ploughing our way through a rehearsal of these, the DoM turned to ‘Have yourself a merry little Christmas’.( arr. L’ Estrange) “At last, something Christmassy,” said my neighbour.
I do hope that’s with the original (originally recorded, at least, and in my opinion, correct) words:
Through the years we all will be together
if the fates allow.
Until then we’ll have to muddle through somehow.
I prefer the original words as well, @Nick Tamen . Please allow me one correction to the above: It's "Some day soon we all will be together...." The whole tone of the lyrics is about things being better in the future, befitting a wartime story (1944).
Thanks for this wonderful thread. I have lots of listening to do!
There are some even more original lyrics to that song:
Have yourself a merry little Christmas
It may be your last
Next year we may all be living in the past
After ploughing our way through a rehearsal of these, the DoM turned to ‘Have yourself a merry little Christmas’.( arr. L’ Estrange) “At last, something Christmassy,” said my neighbour.
I do hope that’s with the original (originally recorded, at least, and in my opinion, correct) words:
Through the years we all will be together
if the fates allow.
Until then we’ll have to muddle through somehow.
I prefer the original words as well, @Nick Tamen . Please allow me one correction to the above: It's "Some day soon we all will be together...." The whole tone of the lyrics is about things being better in the future, befitting a wartime story (1944).
Thanks for this wonderful thread. I have lots of listening to do!
There are some even more original lyrics to that song:
Have yourself a merry little Christmas
It may be your last
Next year we may all be living in the past
Yep, which I why I phrased it “the original (originally recorded, at least) . . . words.”
There is a fairly good movie called "Last Christmas" based on the song of the same name. I was not aware of the song until I saw the film. Does anyone have an opinion about that song?
Yes, the original recording by Wham! is superior to all covers. It's also nearing the
"All I Want For Christmas Is You" (Mariah Carey) level of ubiquity.
There is a fairly good movie called "Last Christmas" based on the song of the same name. I was not aware of the song until I saw the film. Does anyone have an opinion about that song?
I have an opinion on that song—I’m afraid I loathe it with the intensity of a thousand hot suns.
Ditto “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” and “Happy Xmas (War Is Over).”
ETA: And with that reminder from @The_Riv, ditto “All is Want for Christmas Is You.”
Yeah, I've heard that Mariah Carey song enough for this lifetime (and probably the next), but I don't mean to disparage Ms. Carey in any way. Truly.
"Do They Know It's Christmas" served an important purpose. As a song, intrinsically, your mileage may vary. FWIW, I feel the same way about Benjamin Britten's War Requiem -- its sky-high status isn't particularly musically obvious, compared to other pieces of his, as well as others' works in the same vein (RVW's Dona Nobis Pacem and A Song of Thanksgiving chief among them). Happy for others to feel differently.
@Priscilla, you read my mind re: O holy night - if I never hear it again it'll still be too soon. 🤢
Bethlehem Down - if you have Spotify, look up A Time of Peace by Belfast Cathedral Choir - we sang it rather nicely.
It's one of those wonderful, bittersweet carols that makes you feel cold.
I love the traditional Advent hymns - Lo, he comes with clouds descending (for which David wrote a spectacular descant), Hills of the north rejoice, O come, O come Emmanuel, On Jordan's bank ...
There is a fairly good movie called "Last Christmas" based on the song of the same name. I was not aware of the song until I saw the film. Does anyone have an opinion about that song?
I have an opinion on that song—I’m afraid I loathe it with the intensity of a thousand hot suns.
Me too, it's the "Last Christmas I GEV you my heart" that makes me want to scream.
On hymns I rarely hear, and this one I've never heard "live", only on a CD I bought (may say something...), I do like the seldom-used adjective in Where is this stupendous stranger?, and the last verse:
God all-bounteous, all-creative,
whom no ills from good dissuade,
is incarnate, and a native
of the very world he made.
Would the CD you mentioned be “what sweeter music”-Advent and Christmas stuff- the one made by Christ Church St Laurence choir in 2005?
Indeed not well known, but written by Christopher Smart who is perhaps best known for his poem "Rejoice in the Lamb" (in which his cat Jeoffry makes a famous appearance), set to music by Benjamin Britten. I sang it at school.
For some reason I associate the words of WITSS to "Scarlet Ribbons", although I can't think why!
For years, Britten's Rejoice in the Lamb was part of the first level undergraduate choral conducting exam at my Alma Mater. I also recall Britten's Festival Te Deum as an audition piece for the MM Choral Conducting program. All of that to say (despite this being a thread about deserving yet underperformed carols) that there's a wonderful book about and in some cases by Christopher Smart's feline friend: Jeoffrey, The Poet's Cat: A Biography by Oliver Soden.
I didn't say I liked "Last Christmas". I liked the movie and in particular the two leading actresses.
Heh! Given how you worded your post, I assumed you either didn’t like the song or were ambivalent about it.
Perhaps, now that I’ve expressed my dislike of various modern classic a Christmas pop songs, it’s time to put the nail in the coffin and make my annual confession that the one contemporary, non-sacred Christmas song that I absolutely must hear (multiple times) in December is Robert Earl Keen’s “Merry Christmas from the Family.”
I didn't say I liked "Last Christmas". I liked the movie and in particular the two leading actresses.
Heh! Given how you worded your post, I assumed you either didn’t like the song or were ambivalent about it.
Perhaps, now that I’ve expressed my dislike of various modern classic a Christmas pop songs, it’s time to put the nail in the coffin and make my annual confession that the one contemporary, non-sacred Christmas song that I absolutely must hear (multiple times) in December is Robert Earl Keen’s “Merry Christmas from the Family.”
I have a couple of those, too, @Nick. One is The Rebel Jesus by The Chieftans. I think I've mentioned this song on these boards before. On the "Bells of Dublin" CD there's no gap between the end of this song and a delightful reel that follows. I've taken to hearing the end of the reel as the end of the song.
The other, weird as it may be, is Dream Academy's Life in a Northern Town. Of course, I'm really dating myself with this one.
Would the CD you mentioned be “what sweeter music”-Advent and Christmas stuff- the one made by Christ Church St Laurence choir in 2005?
It would indeed. I visited a few times when I lived in Sydney. A CD I still play quite a bit, in and out of the season (I came across Sumsion's Benedictus from Service in G and Bainton's[?] And I Saw A New Heaven through it which have become favourites).
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We sang that not too long ago. Honestly the font was unpromising but as you say the music is good.
I had a CD of NZ Christmas Carols, my favourite of which was "Upside Down Christmas" It started with the lines - Carol our Christmas our upside down Christmas, snow is not falling and trees are not bare. Carol our summer and worship the Christ Child born in the sunshine and sweetness of air"
It was by the late Shirley Murray and I haven't heard it sung for years.
I believe so!
No rage here. I enjoy exploring other versions of music I love.
It also appears to be in the Christmas Oratorio, too!
Another carol I thought of is "I Wonder as I Wander." I would venture most people know it, but it's definitely not in the top of the rotation.
Definitely misplaced as an Advent hymn. Its origin is as the equivalent of an "Offertery Hymn" in Eastern Rite liturgies (when the bread and wine are carried to the Holy Table). It appears as such in the Divine Liturgy of Saint James (used in a few places on St James' day [October 23rd] and on the Sunday after Christmas [when St James is also commemorated]). It is also specified for the Divine Liturgy of St Basil on Holy Saturday.
[Interesting and irrelevant side point: the most usual traditional Russian melody for this hymn begins with the same four notes as the tune "Picardy".]
Many years ago the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra put on six "twilight" concerts (6pm or thereabouts) in different London churches: three on alternate days before Christmas, three on alternate days after. We went to two. Each concert contained one of Bach's Motets, one of his Brandenburg Concerti, and one part of the Oratorio. Most satisfying!
As Bach no doubt intended it (at least the six individual cantatas being performed separately)!
Gonna add another carol to the Most Deserving but seemingly under-performed list that also happens to be harmonized by JS Bach (English text by Percy Dearmer): O little one sweet (O Jesulein süß). Not the easiest carol, especially a cappella, but charming, and well, sweet.
Ah, apologies, I misread!
Ah, but origins don't always dictate (but should always inform) current use
Amen and amen
This year I am not keen on or actively dislike most of those chosen for my three choirs, especially Bob Chilcott’s On Christmas Night, which incorporates a number of traditional carols but messes them about.
After ploughing our way through a rehearsal of these, the DoM turned to ‘Have yourself a merry little Christmas’.( arr. L’ Estrange) “At last, something Christmassy,” said my neighbour.
Through the years we all will be together
if the fates allow.
Until then we’ll have to muddle through somehow.
I prefer the original words as well, @Nick Tamen . Please allow me one correction to the above: It's "Some day soon we all will be together...." The whole tone of the lyrics is about things being better in the future, befitting a wartime story (1944).
Thanks for this wonderful thread. I have lots of listening to do!
I'd banish the following:
O little town of Bethlehem*
Away in a manger
Silent night
Ding! dong! merrily on high
See amid the winter's snow
Once in royal David's city
Hark! the herald angels sing
*Notwithstanding the lovely RVW tune Forest Green...although AIUI there is a sort of modern version of the song, which reflects the brutal reality of the conflict in today's Middle East...
Hah bumhug.
I agree with what @Nick Tamen said earlier:
I tend to think orchestral or choral arrangements of a folk song need to be looked at (or heard) as things separate from the folk song they’re an arrangement of. Arrangements of them can certainly be beautiful, but the folk songs often have an innate, simple beauty that orchestras or choirs by their very nature can’t capture.
And thanks for the correction! I knew something wasn't right.
I’m pretty sure we’ve had such threads over the years, though they’re all in Limbo or Oblivion by now, I’m sure.
I’m with you on “O Holy Night.” I can bear it if it’s sung in French (and when I’ve been asked to sing it, I’ve insisted on French.) Otherwise, just no.
There is a category of carols that, in my mind, can be beautiful but also can be horrible and overdone. “Silent Night” is in that category for me. It can be lovely, but much too often is not.
Thank you. Not that I am criticising those who love it, but I always felt guilty or was missing something as I thought I was the only one who wasn't overly enamoured of it. I love its creation story, and I don't mind it, but I don't have the same love those around me do. Nice to know I'm not alone.
Thank you for sharing many new ones I shall listen to. While I love organs and brass, a folk melody can grab me like none other - Noël Nouvelet (if it is one, I am quite musically illiterate) being one I like.
As the one who got to transcribe it I discovered that it's much more complex than it sounds.
1) something gentle and well-sung eg O little One sweet, Bethlehem Down,
2) something lively, raucous even, well-known, jolly, maybe to sing along to.
I don’t think they enjoy the ones that are tricky, with odd rhythms, or too show-offy. That rules out most of my 2 choral societies’ contributions this year.
I may be odd but I don't mind the occasional "show off" piece. But I know people for whom this is a foretaste of Gehenna. I do find, no idea what the word is, songs where two different texts are sung over each other (Three Kings from Persian Lands Afar, for example) difficult to follow, but that is me and I enjoy what I can make out (and the melody in that instance).
I was trying to figure out where I remembered that from and it's Hymn 41 in the New English Hymnal. The tune I know is Ottery St. Mary, an oddly dark tune for these words, but I like it. The text is by Christopher Smart.
I've been listening to the D'Aquin Noels for organ in the car lately. As I recall they're based on traditional French carol tunes... perfect organ music for Christmas.
There are some even more original lyrics to that song:
Have yourself a merry little Christmas
It may be your last
Next year we may all be living in the past
Not a carol, but beloved.
"All I Want For Christmas Is You" (Mariah Carey) level of ubiquity.
Ditto “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” and “Happy Xmas (War Is Over).”
ETA: And with that reminder from @The_Riv, ditto “All is Want for Christmas Is You.”
"Do They Know It's Christmas" served an important purpose. As a song, intrinsically, your mileage may vary. FWIW, I feel the same way about Benjamin Britten's War Requiem -- its sky-high status isn't particularly musically obvious, compared to other pieces of his, as well as others' works in the same vein (RVW's Dona Nobis Pacem and A Song of Thanksgiving chief among them). Happy for others to feel differently.
@Priscilla, you read my mind re: O holy night - if I never hear it again it'll still be too soon. 🤢
Bethlehem Down - if you have Spotify, look up A Time of Peace by Belfast Cathedral Choir - we sang it rather nicely.
It's one of those wonderful, bittersweet carols that makes you feel cold.
I love the traditional Advent hymns - Lo, he comes with clouds descending (for which David wrote a spectacular descant), Hills of the north rejoice, O come, O come Emmanuel, On Jordan's bank ...
My favourite service of the whole year. ❤️
I also love those you mentioned.
Me too, it's the "Last Christmas I GEV you my heart" that makes me want to scream.
Would the CD you mentioned be “what sweeter music”-Advent and Christmas stuff- the one made by Christ Church St Laurence choir in 2005?
For some reason I associate the words of WITSS to "Scarlet Ribbons", although I can't think why!
Perhaps, now that I’ve expressed my dislike of various modern classic a Christmas pop songs, it’s time to put the nail in the coffin and make my annual confession that the one contemporary, non-sacred Christmas song that I absolutely must hear (multiple times) in December is Robert Earl Keen’s “Merry Christmas from the Family.”
I have a couple of those, too, @Nick. One is The Rebel Jesus by The Chieftans. I think I've mentioned this song on these boards before. On the "Bells of Dublin" CD there's no gap between the end of this song and a delightful reel that follows. I've taken to hearing the end of the reel as the end of the song.
The other, weird as it may be, is Dream Academy's Life in a Northern Town. Of course, I'm really dating myself with this one.
Off to look up Rejoice in the Lamb.