pre-cursor to Halloween Trick or Treating & Christmas Carolling…. England gave us so many cool Ancient traditions, and Sting gives us one incredible story through song, album after album, genre after genre!
@aoifem708 pre reformation in Ireland and Britain. Praying for the dead was abandoned after the reformation in protestant England but I suspect continued more strongly in a Catholic sympathetic Ireland. But souling was practised in the North East and Yorkshire well into the 20th century. Sting comes from the northea. I wonder if learnt this song at his grandmother's knee? He sings it here in a NE accent.
I have this song for team, I dont think ill ever get it out of my head (like that one song THAT I CANT FIND THAT LITTLE 3 YEAR OLDS DANCED TOO LAST YEAR)
A Winters Night: this concert, from Durham Cathedral, 09 blew my mind. Sting and his hand picked group of wonderful musicians rocked it! The brother and sister, Kathryn and Peter Tickell on the violins are special favourites of mine. Just listen to "Team Spirit". Ah the timeless music of the British Isles and Eire!
@@doredam8919 predates hallows Eve/Samhain. Listen to the lyrics: "one for Peter, two for Paul, three for him that made us all". It's actually the opposite of trick or treating. It's the child asking for a treat and if the household can't afford it, the child prays them a blessing. It dates to the high middle ages.
LYRICS: A soul cake, a soul cake, Please, good missus, a soul cake, An apple, a pear, a plum or a cherry, Any good thing to make us all merry. A soul cake, a soul cake, Please, good missus, a soul cake, One for Peter, two for Paul, And three for Him that made us all. God bless the master of this house And the mistress also, And all the little children That round your table grow, The cattle in your stable, The dogs at your front door, And all that dwell within your gates We'll wish you ten times more. A soul cake, a soul cake: Go down into the cellar And see what you can find, If the barrels are not empty We'll hope that you'll be kind, We'll hope that you'll be kind With your apple and your pear, And we'll come no more a-soulin' Till Christmas time next year. A soul cake, a soul cake: The streets are very dirty, Me shoes are very thin, I have a little pocket To put a penny in, If you haven't got a penny A ha'penny will do, If you haven't got a ha'penny God bless you. A soul cake, a soul cake
I hadn't heard it either and it's lovely . I also never heard it during the 60s listening to Peter, Paul and Mary. TH explanation of its oroigin makes sense for All Soul's Day.
Sting's is a very good solo version, but the definitive version from my (very much) younger years was the one sung by Peter, Paul & Mary. The song is a very, very old traditional children's song of the British Isles.
Love to see him singing the jolly begger man now cus he clearly understands none of the history of this song nor hardship .... I'd love to be so privileged
Mom a hairdresser, dad a milkman. Worked as a teacher and started a band. Your comment is inaccurate and ugly. Maybe you can do something to change your own circumstances.
Beautiful I just heard it for the first time while watching "LOVE THE COOPERS", WONDERFUL ACTORS AND MOVIE 🎥🍿 GOD BLESS ANYONE THAT SEES THIS!!! HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO ALL!!!!!✝️💖🎄😊😔🎉⛄🦌🏡🎉🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎉
You are correct in its origins, certainly. He may have simply carried on a 'mistake' started by Peter, Paul and Mary in the sixties. I know that I learned it as a Christmas song in the 70's here in the US, based on Peter Paul and Mary's version. I hope it did make him some money, it is a very tasteful arrangement.
This song may actually pre-date Christianity. The cakes were given out to keep spirits away. It reminds me of another beautiful but eerie song; Lyke Wake Dirge.
I wa moved by this marvelous tune and the film it stems from--no matter WHERE it came from!! Watched the film today and was ever-much more !!! and always wil!!moved towards making a comment towards a point forward---Bob Dylan and whomsoever directed,. it means a great deal to me--always will!
I have the DVD of this concert. So many talented musicians and vocalists collaborated on this performance. The set includes a documentary on the development of this music. Makes me want to be a Geordie.
I never heard this song until I watched Love the Coopers. I love this song. It is now my favorite song. Thanks Sting
Same here 😅... I came across it when I watched Love the Coopers 🥁
Me too
A brill film 👍
I discovered this song last year! Love it!
Right there with you. Loved it the moment I heard it on Christmas night 2021
Discovered it today. Haunting!
pre-cursor to Halloween Trick or Treating & Christmas Carolling…. England gave us so many cool Ancient traditions, and Sting gives us one incredible story through song, album after album, genre after genre!
Souling originated in ireland not england
@@aoifem708 Please tell your recipe for soul cakes?
@@aoifem708 Ireland, Scotland, N. England... more or less a combination of overlaying traditions going back hundreds of years...
@aoifem708 pre reformation in Ireland and Britain. Praying for the dead was abandoned after the reformation in protestant England but I suspect continued more strongly in a Catholic sympathetic Ireland. But souling was practised in the North East and Yorkshire well into the 20th century. Sting comes from the northea. I wonder if learnt this song at his grandmother's knee? He sings it here in a NE accent.
Couldn't be any better a musician alive today.
This song has a soul!!! I always cry when listening.
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And a cake
I discovered it last year! I love it!
Me too!
Anything that is attached to Sting is going to be EXCELLENTAAAAA
I remember seeing this on TV late night during Christmas Eve, still one of the best Christmas memories vibes, wonderful concert
i cant get this song out of my head.
cecil mitchell fr
My English teacher played this just so it would be in our heads all day. Asshole!
I have this song for team, I dont think ill ever get it out of my head (like that one song THAT I CANT FIND THAT LITTLE 3 YEAR OLDS DANCED TOO LAST YEAR)
How could anyone not LOVE this🎄❤️
you can sense his love and history with this song. Beauty in sound, lyric, and posterity.
Just pure musical talent and no computers needed....
A Winters Night: this concert, from Durham Cathedral, 09 blew my mind. Sting and his hand picked group of wonderful musicians rocked it! The brother and sister, Kathryn and Peter Tickell on the violins are special favourites of mine. Just listen to "Team Spirit". Ah the timeless music of the British Isles and Eire!
One year ago!!!😊⛄🙏🏻🎄
Great story 😊
Absolutely wonderful performance in a most beautiful setting!
This one goes into my annual Christmas song rotation.
this song touches my heart no matter how many times i listen to it every day is cristmas
It's actually a Halloween song: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soul_cake
the best Christmas album ever
Beautiful rendition of this song.
A Christmas movie brought me here... this song is really good!
Love the Coopers?
Cyan Pastiche Exactly! It's cool because they use it more than once so in the end it's stuck in your head'
me too
Mee too:)
Mads me too!
Bootiful song
Stunning classic.
2020 brought me here.
the setting couldn't be any more magical for christmas
Jennifer Brown it's actually a halloween song
@@doredam8919 predates hallows Eve/Samhain. Listen to the lyrics: "one for Peter, two for Paul, three for him that made us all". It's actually the opposite of trick or treating. It's the child asking for a treat and if the household can't afford it, the child prays them a blessing. It dates to the high middle ages.
Beautifully orchestrated. PP&M's stands by itself and now Sting stands alongside!!!
Great performances. Individual and collective . I love you STING . 😳🙌😘😄😘😄😘😄
Searched this today (Nov 2nd) to hear it on All Souls Day.... love this rendition by Sting
I've been listening to this entire CD all holiday season. Love it!
love the coopers brought me here
me too :)
Oh my god same!!!
+Siana Parks in what part?
hahahahah me too
ME Too :D
Wow, such a haunting song!
Beautiful song towards purification of our souls.
This song is my favorite part of Christmas ever since the album came out.
such an enchanting song! love it love it! Age is no excuse for lack of virtuosity
Loved this song so much...🙏🏾
Take me back…Beautiful song 😍
Krásná hudba. Neuvěřitelné.
everything is perfect and beautiful here.
LYRICS:
A soul cake, a soul cake,
Please, good missus, a soul cake,
An apple, a pear, a plum or a cherry,
Any good thing to make us all merry.
A soul cake, a soul cake,
Please, good missus, a soul cake,
One for Peter, two for Paul,
And three for Him that made us all.
God bless the master of this house
And the mistress also,
And all the little children
That round your table grow,
The cattle in your stable,
The dogs at your front door,
And all that dwell within your gates
We'll wish you ten times more.
A soul cake, a soul cake:
Go down into the cellar
And see what you can find,
If the barrels are not empty
We'll hope that you'll be kind,
We'll hope that you'll be kind
With your apple and your pear,
And we'll come no more a-soulin'
Till Christmas time next year.
A soul cake, a soul cake:
The streets are very dirty,
Me shoes are very thin,
I have a little pocket
To put a penny in,
If you haven't got a penny
A ha'penny will do,
If you haven't got a ha'penny
God bless you.
A soul cake, a soul cake
can't stop listening to this
Performing this song for choir and it is super catchy
Any good thing to make us all merry❤❤❤
how have i not run across this before
what a treat to hear sting singing this
I hadn't heard it either and it's lovely . I also never heard it during the 60s listening to Peter, Paul and Mary. TH explanation of its oroigin makes sense for All Soul's Day.
I love this Song !!!🥰🥰🥰
God Rest ye Merry, Gentlemen.
One for Peter, two for Paul,
And three for Him that made us all.
Is how you know it's not about Halloween
Hi Ninsan93 - God rest ye merry gentlemen. Too many years singing in Churches...
Omg I love it!I love the coopers or smt like that bought me there.Oh ski I love you so much
Listening to this again as I . bake soul cakes ! Blessed be !
Sting's is a very good solo version, but the definitive version from my (very much) younger years was the one sung by Peter, Paul & Mary.
The song is a very, very old traditional children's song of the British Isles.
I completely agree!
Love to see him singing the jolly begger man now cus he clearly understands none of the history of this song nor hardship .... I'd love to be so privileged
Mom a hairdresser, dad a milkman. Worked as a teacher and started a band. Your comment is inaccurate and ugly. Maybe you can do something to change your own circumstances.
Perfect 👌acoustic perfection
My favorite song !!!
Beautiful I just heard it for the first time while watching "LOVE THE COOPERS", WONDERFUL ACTORS AND MOVIE 🎥🍿 GOD BLESS ANYONE THAT SEES THIS!!! HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO ALL!!!!!✝️💖🎄😊😔🎉⛄🦌🏡🎉🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎉
Sublime!
Merry Christmas!
Love The Coopers
I love this song I will never forget it
The best and spirituel, derives straight into the heart. Faisal
this a song for all souls day
Exquisite
You are correct in its origins, certainly. He may have simply carried on a 'mistake' started by Peter, Paul and Mary in the sixties. I know that I learned it as a Christmas song in the 70's here in the US, based on Peter Paul and Mary's version. I hope it did make him some money, it is a very tasteful arrangement.
Hes just an such amazing artist
love this song..the version by Peter, Paul and Mary is really good too.
Three for Him that made as all..... :)
The best á capella
This song is my favorite
i fricking love this song my history teacher showed it to me and its been stuck in my head
Thanks for posting
you're welcome
Brilliant album!
Me too!!! love the movie and love the soudtrack!!!!
My music teacher when i was in 6th grade showed me this song 5 years later i still can't get it out of my head
I'm muslim. And ı love this song
What does being Muslim have to do with loving this song? It's universal, and 99% of humans feel the same regardless of religion.
@@Micky-Burns lol. I really dont know what I was thinking 5 years ago. You re right.
Soul foooooood
Стинг как всегда лучший :-)
The fiddle break after the luftspause is the cat's pajamas.
Ingeniously
liebe dieses Lied in dieser Version!
Great interpretation
I got here from a website explaining the origins of giving out candy on Halloween and goddammit this is beautiful! I'm not even Christian! XD
This song may actually pre-date Christianity. The cakes were given out to keep spirits away. It reminds me of another beautiful but eerie song; Lyke Wake Dirge.
wow !!
I wa moved by this marvelous tune and the film it stems from--no matter WHERE it came from!! Watched the film today and was ever-much more !!! and always wil!!moved towards making a comment towards a point forward---Bob Dylan and whomsoever directed,. it means a great deal to me--always will!
thanks a lot!
Music brought me here. (Music class in school.)
Feniksxx me to but I cant find the original from the cd
Hrvatska?
Adoro🤩
I have the DVD of this concert. So many talented musicians and vocalists collaborated on this performance. The set includes a documentary on the development of this music. Makes me want to be a Geordie.
Incredible song this :)
love the coopers got me here
Merry Christmas, everyone.
Nice song
A Winter's Night
Me encanta...pienso en una antigua aldea inglesa en donde predomina la buena voluntad...!!!!
AMAZING
Дуже гарно 👍
We watched this in RE
Simplesmente perfect!!!
2022 this song doesn't get old!
sooooo evokative ...
Master
fajna piosenka i to brzmienie skrzypiec....super!
3:41 is the best bit!
nice to see you doing alternative music
Dobrze jest zjeść ciastko i mieć ciastko.. Choć czy dla duszy czy nie wszystko.. za jedno..
As always, nowadays has nothing to do with what it had been all about... But Sting has made it brilliant.. as always again :)