Tuesday, December 23, 2014

The Holly and the Ivy

This Christmas you can learn an ancient carol more simply by creating a visual tag. Practice looking at a piece of holly and slowly singing or listening to the first stanza of "The Holly and the Ivy." Eventually, every time you look at a piece of holly, you'll think of this song. Here's a contemporary recording of the hymn. I think they're singing "merry harp" instead of "merry organ."