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Kate Rusby - Diadem - A Christmas Carol from 1779. It's from her 2011 album "While Mortals Sleep" (Pure Records 2011).

Christmas albums are like Christmas Day with your relatives -- fraught with potential pitfalls. But only the Grinch would want to ban them outright. And when Kate Rusby, aka the Barnsley Nightingale, is thrumming her guitar and dishing out the seasonal warmth, there is much to be enjoyed.

Christmas' roots in carols are the root of While Mortals Sleep. Rusby's on record as someone who adores Christmas, and this is her second album of "South Yorkshire-inspired songs and carols" following 2008's Sweet Bells. That album's title-track was a carol peculiar to Yorkshire, based on While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks but with an alternative tune and extra lyrics. This time around, she's adapted the lyrics to the tune of On Ilkley Moor Baht 'at, though the title here is Cranbrook. Feel free to sing along with "As shepherds washed their socks at night..."

Little Town of Bethlehem, Seven Good Joys and Shepherds Arise make appearances, and if that instantly conjures a mood of encroaching Sunday school mornings, remember that these versions should be listened to by the hearth, with a pint (or equivalent) in hand -- these are Kate's instructions, so take heed. With each passing song, she draws us into a time and a place, mostly the deep dark nights of yesteryear. The words to Diadem date from 1779 and the solemn brass/accordion backing feels suitably dusty. Similarly, The First Tree in the Greenwood, The Wren and Holmfirth Anthem -- all folk perennials -- ramp up the melancholy, to counter Kris Kringle's cheerful swing: Rusby's quivery voice and plaintive tone best suits forlorn ballads and the likes of Rocking Carol's lullaby, but she can sounds just at home with these spirited songs (BBC-review).

Diadem

"All Hail the Power of Jesus' Name" is a popular hymn sung by many Christian denominations. The hymn is often called the "National Anthem of Christendom.". The lyrics, written by Edward Perronet while he served as a missionary in India, first appeared in the November, 1779 issue of the Gospel Magazine, which was edited by the renowned author of "Rock of Ages", Augustus Toplady. The text has been translated into almost every (if not every) language in which Christianity is known. The best-known tunes used for the hymn are "Coronation" and "Miles Lane", with "Diadem" the favoured one in Australia, but there are a number of others. "Diadem" is also the most favoured tune sung as a choir number.

The song was heavily altered for the Unitarian hymnal, which was also licensed to the hymnal of the Unity Church: "All Hail the Power of Truth to Save from Error's Binding Thrall."

Lyrics Diadem:

All hail the power of Jesus' name!

Let angels prostrate fall;

bring forth the royal diadem,

and crown Him Lord of all.

Bring forth the royal diadem,

and crown Him Lord of all.

Ye chosen seed of Israel's race,

ye ransomed from the Fall,

hail Him who saves you by His grace,

and crown Him Lord of all.

Hail Him who saves you by His grace,

and crown Him Lord of all.

Sinners, whose love can ne'er forget

the wormwood and the gall,

go spread your trophies at His feet,

and crown Him Lord of all.

Go spread your trophies at His feet,

and crown Him Lord of all.

Let every kindred, every tribe

on this terrestrial ball,

to Him all majesty ascribe,

and crown Him Lord of all.

To Him all majesty ascribe,

and crown Him Lord of all.

(Alternate wording to the above verse)

Let every tribe and every tongue

before Him prostrate fall

And shout in universal song

the crownèd Lord of all.

And shout in universal song

the crownèd Lord of all.

O that with yonder sacred throng

we at His feet may fall!

We'll join the everlasting song,

and crown Him Lord of all.

We'll join the everlasting song,

and crown Him Lord of all.