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Full Title	The Cherry Tree Carol
Contributor	Yeats, Jack Butler, 1871-1957 (Illustrator)
Date Added	8 January 2014
Language	English
Publish Date	1909-12
Publisher	Dundrum : Cuala Press
Source	Cuala Press Broadside Collection
Topic	Cherry tree carol (Song) Collier (Song) Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint > Songs and music. Joseph, Saint > Songs and music. Collier > Songs and music. Pantomime > Images.
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OCR NO. 7. SECOND YEAR A BROAIISIDE FOR DECEMBER, I909 PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY E. C. YEATS AT THE CUALA PRESS, CHURCHTOWN, DUNDRUM, COUNTY DUBLIN. SUBSCRIPTION TWELVE SHILLINGS A YEAR POST FREE. THE CHERRY-TREE CAROL Now Joseph was an old man, As Joseph and Mary walk thro’ An old man was he, A garden green, When he wedded Mary, Where cherries and berries, In the land of Galilee. Were as thick as might be seen. 0 then bespoke up Mary, Then bowed down the highest tree, With words both meek and kind, Unto God’s mother’s hand, ‘Pluck me some cherries, Joseph, 0 then, she cried, ‘See, Joseph, They run so in my mind.’ I have cherries at my command.’ 0 eat your cherries, Mary, As Joseph was a walking, 0 eat your cherries now; He heard an angel sing, 0 eat your cherries, Mary, ‘This night shall be the birth-time They grow upon the bough. Of Christ our Heavenly King.’ ‘He neither shall be born, ‘He neither shall be clothed In housen nor in hall, In purple nor in pall, Nor in the place of Paradise, But all in fair linen, But in an ox’s stall. - That usen babies all. 300 copies only.