This Little Babe

Here is a recording (from Sunday's worship) of the song I wrote based on a 400 year old poem entitled "This Little Babe". I first encountered the text in Benjamin Britten's "A Ceremony of Carols" as a sophomore in High School, and even then I found the text compelling, if a bit arcane, and the melody Britten used was ... well, not really usable. So I modernized the text a bit and gave the song an early American, Sacred Harp sort of feel. It wound up developing a musical feel that was a cross between a lullabye and a military march - which actually fits the text. Though it doesn't show up well on the recording, Brian played a keyboard voice that sounded like a field accordian. (That's EC singing with me, BTW.)