Good King Wenceslas-Milada Boublíková/Prague Madrigal Singers/Miroslav Venhoda/Beno Blachut

[ti:Good King Wenceslas] [ar:Prague Madrigal Singers] [al:Christmas Carols of European Nations] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Good King Wenceslas - Prague Madrigal Singers [00:11.23]Good King Wenceslas looked out [00:13.25]On the feast of Stephen [00:15.56]When the snow lay 'round about [00:17.77]Deep and crisp and even [00:19.47] [00:20.04]Brightly shone the moon that night [00:22.38]Though the frost was cruel [00:23.99] [00:24.74]When a poor man came in sight [00:26.92]Gathering winter fuel [00:28.63] [00:30.74]Hither page and stand by me [00:32.81]If thou knows it telling [00:34.98]Yonder peasant who is he [00:37.07]Where and what his dwelling [00:39.46]Sire he lives a good league hence [00:41.99]Underneath the mountain [00:43.78]Right against the forest fence [00:45.94]By Saint Agnes's fountain [00:49.10] [00:55.20]Bring me flesh and bring me wine [00:57.21]Bring me fur logs hither [00:59.42]Thou and I will see him dine [01:01.51]Here we bear him thither [01:03.14] [01:04.03]Page and monarch forth they went [01:05.99]Forth they went together [01:08.17]Through the rude wind's wild lament [01:10.30]And the bitter weather [01:12.15] [01:14.11]Sire the night is darker now [01:15.93]And the wind blows stronger [01:17.91]Fails my heart I know not how [01:20.19]I can go no longer [01:22.40]Mark my footsteps good my page [01:24.60]Tread thou in them boldly [01:26.73]Thou shall find the winter's rage [01:28.93]Freeze thy blood less coldly [01:32.26] [01:42.77]In his master's steps he trod [01:44.70]Where the snow lay dinted [01:46.84]Heat was in the very sod [01:49.06]Which the Saint had printed [01:51.13]Therefore Christian men be sure [01:53.39]Wealth or rank possessing [01:55.37]Ye who now will bless the poor [01:57.63]Shall yourselves find blessing