Joan Baez - Coventry Carol [HD]

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Channel: Gary Larson · 2016 · People & Blogs

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Joan Baez sings the 'Coventry Carol' from her 1966 Vanguard album 'Noel'. This Christmas carol based on the Gospel of Matthew's story of the Massacre of the Innocents comes from a nativity play dating back as least as early as the 1500s in Coventry, England. It is a sad lullaby by the mothers of the children who are to be slain. The middle verse reads "Harod the King, in his raging/Charged he hath this day/His men of might in his own sight/All young children to slay." The video images show a sad Mary and baby Jesus who survived the Massacre. The song has been recorded by many singers including Sting, John Denver, Annie Lennox, and Tori Amos.

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