Uploaded December 2020 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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'In the bleak mid-winter', with music by Gustav Holst and arranged by Mack Wilberg, from BBC Carols from King's 2020. Broadcast in the UK on Christmas Eve 2020.

The Choristers of the Choir of King's College Cambridge
The King's Singers
Matthew Martin, organist
Daniel Hyde, conductor

Distributed under licence from the British Broadcasting Corporation.

The King's Singers:
Patrick Dunachie (countertenor)
Edward Button (countertenor)
Julian Gregory (tenor)
Christopher Bruerton (baritone)
Nick Ashby (baritone)
Jonathan Howard (bass)
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Text:
In the bleak mid-winter
Frosty wind made moan,
Earth stood hard as iron,
Water like a stone;
Snow had fallen, snow on snow,
Snow on snow,
In the bleak mid-winter,
Long ago.

Our God, Heav’n cannot hold him
Nor earth sustain;
Heav’n and earth shall flee away
When he comes to reign:
In the bleak mid-winter
A stable-place sufficed
The Lord God Almighty
Jesus Christ.

What can I give him,
Poor as I am?
If I were a shepherd
I would bring a lamb,
If I were a Wise Man
I would do my part,
Yet what I can I give him,
Give my heart.