Balulalow

Commissioned by Royal Holloway Chapel Choir (Conductor Rupert Gough) in 2007.

Scored for SATB & Organ

A version for SSAA and String Quartet is also available (click here).

Published by Hayo Music

The text was taken from a poem by James, John, & Robert Wedderburn (c1567). The word Balulalow is in fact old Scottish for lullaby:

Oh my dear heart young Jesus sweet,
Prepare thy cradle in my spirit,
And I shall rock thee to my heart
And never more from thee depart.

And I shall praise thee ever more
With songs sweet unto thy glory;
The knees of my heart shall I bow,
And sing that right Balulalow!