Als I Lay on Yoolish Night - Medieval English Song

Vocals & arrangement by Farya Faraji. This is a Christmas carol from the 14th century, England, written in Middle-English. It uses a narrative framing device where an untold, lonely narrator sees a mother telling the story of the Nativity to her child. The instrumentation of this pieces uses the psaltery, both bowed and non-bowed, as well as the fidule. I did my best to emulate recordings whose pronunciation seems to be historically accurate, but I probably missed some minor phonetic elements here and there so keep in mind that this will probably be not be a perfect rendering of Middle-English. Lyrics in Middle-English: Lullay, lullay, lay lay, lullay: mi deere moder, sing lullay. Als I lay on Yoolis Night alone in my longing me thought I saw a well fair sight, a may hiar child rokking. The maiden wold withouten song hir child o sleep to bring; the child him thought sche ded him wrong and bad his moder sing. ’Sing nou moder,’ said the child, &