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Words : attributed to Robert Croo, 1534.
Music : English melody, 1591.
Source : Bramley and Stainer, Christmas Carols New and Old, Third Series (London : Novello, Ewer & Co., ca 1878). Carol no. 61.
This Christmas carol tells the story of the Massacre of the Innocents by Herod the Great.
It is named after the city of Coventry (England), where the Century Pageant of the Shearmen and Tailors depicted this cruel event.
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