The Virgin Mary Had A Baby Boy

The Virgin Mary Had A Baby Boy ( The Virgin Mary had a baby boy / The Virgin Mary had a baby boy , etc.) or Glorious Kingdom is a traditional English Christmas carol from the West Indies .

The Calypso Christmas song was first mentioned by Edric Connor (1913-68) from Trinidad in his 1945 book West Indian Spirituals and Folk Tunes . As the editors of the Shorter New Oxford Book of Carols note, the chorus contains "mighty echoes from Africa."

There are numerous recordings and arrangements of the song. Harry Belafonte and the American folk group The Weavers recorded it among others. An arrangement version was made by Wolfgang Kelber.

text

English ( sing-and-pray.de )

translation

The Virgin Mary had a baby boy, The Virgin Mary had a baby boy, The Virgin Mary had a baby boy, And they say that His name was Jesus. He come from the glory, He come from the Glorious Kingdom. He come from the glory, He come from the Glorious Kingdom. Oh yes, believer! Oh yes, believer! Oh yes, believer! He come from the Glorious Kingdom! Was born in a town called Bethlehem, Was born in a town called Bethlehem, Was born in a town called Bethlehem, And they say that His name was Jesus. He come from the glory, He come from the Glorious Kingdom. He come from the glory, He come from the Glorious Kingdom. Oh yes, believer! Oh yes, believer! Oh yes, believer! He come from the Glorious Kingdom! Sent to us from our Father above, Sent to us from our Father above, Sent to us from our Father above, And they say that His name was Jesus. He come from the glory, He come from the Glorious Kingdom. He come from the glory, He come from the Glorious Kingdom. Oh yes, believer! Oh yes, believer! Oh yes, believer! He come from the Glorious Kingdom!

Virgin Mary had a baby son Virgin Mary had a baby son Virgin Mary had a baby son And they say his name was Jesus. He came from glory He came from the glorious kingdom. He came from glory He came from the glorious kingdom. Oh yes believers! Oh yes believers! Oh yes believers! He came from the glorious kingdom. Was born in a place called Bethlehem Was born in a place called Bethlehem Was born in a place called Bethlehem And they say his name was Jesus He came from glory He came from the glorious kingdom. He came from glory He came from the glorious kingdom. Oh yes believers! Oh yes believers! Oh yes believers! He came from the glorious kingdom. Sent to us by our Heavenly Father Sent to us by our Heavenly Father Sent to us by our Heavenly Father And they say his name was Jesus. He came from glory He came from the glorious kingdom. He came from glory He came from the glorious kingdom. Oh yes believers! Oh yes believers! Oh yes believers! He came from the glorious kingdom.

literature

• The Edric Connor collection of West Indian spirituals and folk tunes / arr. For voice and piano by Max Saunders and Hal Evans. London; Sydney: Boosey & Hawkes, c1945 ( library link ).

Web links

• Song entry in the Choral Public Domain Library
• Arrangements by Douglas Walczak (PDF; 107 kB); Larry Minton (PDF; 127 kB); Colin Douglas (sheet music)

Videos

• Calypso Christmas
• Harry Belafonte
• further audio samples: Happy Gospel Singers in Hamburg ; Spiritual Voices Gmünd ; Chamber choir of the Spandau Music School

Individual evidence

1. ↑ HelenYeomans.com: Christmas Carols & Carol Singing. Retrieved April 7, 2016 .  (PDF, 1.3 mb, p. 54)
2. ↑ audio sample (youtube.com)