[00:00.00]Good King Wenceslas (Tune based on a 13th-Century Spring Carol) (tune from Piae Cantiones, wrds. J. M. Neale, arr. John Stainer) - Huddersfield Choral Society/Brian Kay/David Bell/Owain Arwel Hughes
[00:01.68]Good king wenceslas looked out
[00:04.48]On the feast of stephen
[00:07.41]When the snow lay round about
[00:10.36]Deep and crisp and even
[00:13.31]Brightly shone the moon that night
[00:16.38]Though the frost was cruel
[00:19.28]When a poor man came in sight
[00:22.23]Gath'ring winter fuel
[00:29.26]Hither page and stand by me
[00:31.96]If thou know'st it telling
[00:34.88]Yonder peasant who is he
[00:37.77]Where and what his dwelling
[00:40.75]Sire he lives a good league hence
[00:43.64]Underneath the mountain
[00:46.58]Right against the forest fence
[00:49.35]By saint agnes fountain
[00:56.08]Bring me flesh and bring me wine
[00:58.89]Bring me pine logs hither
[01:01.82]Thou and i will see him dine
[01:04.60]When we bear him thither
[01:07.50]Page and monarch forth they went
[01:10.53]Forth they went together
[01:13.47]Through the rude wind's wild lament
[01:16.41]And the bitter weather
[01:23.96]Sire the night is darker now
[01:26.78]And the wind blows stronger
[01:29.80]Fails my heart i know not how
[01:32.78]I can go no longer
[01:35.77]Mark my footsteps my good page
[01:38.76]Tread thou in them boldly
[01:41.58]Thou shalt find the winter's rage
[01:44.50]Freeze thy blood less coldly
[01:52.47]In his master's steps he trod
[01:55.25]Where the snow lay dinted
[01:58.26]Heat was in the very sod
[02:01.18]Which the saint had printed
[02:04.15]Therefore christian men be sure
[02:07.09]Wealth or rank possessing
[02:10.12]Ye who now will bless the poor
[02:13.16]Shall yourselves find blessing