A JOLLY CHRISTMAS FROM FRANK SINATRA — Track #7: “The First Noel”
“And to the darkened earth it gave great light,
And so it continued both day and night…”
Frank’s birthday was December 12th. There are 12 tracks on A Jolly Christmas from Frank Sinatra — his first Christmas album, released by Capitol Records in 1957. We’ll bring them your way in order, between now and December 24.
“The First Noel” is a traditional classical English Christmas carol of Cornish origin, with unusual repetitious lyrics.
There are variations of the lyrics: the Cornish Songbook Version, the New English Hymnal Version, and the Whatever-The-Heck-Frank-Wants-Us-To-Sing Version—featured here:
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