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While Shepherds Watched

from A Cracklin' Good Christmas by Pig's Ear

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Written in 1696 by the Poet Laureate of the time, Nahum Tate, and one Nicholas Brady. Another well-known Carol, and an equally well-known tune. Though you rarely hear the two together, this is a traditional setting for the words.

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from A Cracklin' Good Christmas, released November 30, 2003
Written by Nahum Tate and Nicholas Brady (1696)

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Pig's Ear was a family folk group that entertained audiences from the late 1980s to 2011, with a mix of carefully collected and researched traditional folk, self-penned songs and creative musical arrangements. Based in Kent, near the Sussex & Surrey border, in 2003 they started a small festival 'The Pig's Ear Folk Ale' at Markbeech, Kent which is still going today - folkale.co.uk ... more

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