Down In Yon Forest (Single Version) by Lily Bentley published on 2018-12-10T21:29:57Z (Available now on Bandcamp! https://lilybentley.bandcamp.com/track/down-in-yon-forest-single ) This English carol has been around for somewhere in the region of five hundred years. It's believed that the words make reference to the legend of the Holy Grail. It is perhaps one of the oddest carols to survive into today's folk repertoire, but also one of the most intimate. More than any other carol, it feels to me like a voice reaching across time. - Vocals: Lily Bentley Everything Else: Gerry Diver - Down in yon forest there stands a hall The bells of paradise, I heard them ring It’s covered all over with purple and pall And I love my Lord Jesus, above anything And in that hall there stands a bed The bells of paradise, I heard them ring Scarlet the coverlet over it spread And I love my Lord Jesus, above anything At the foot of that bed there grows a thorn The bells of paradise, I heard them ring It blooms, ere it blossoms the day he was born And I love my Lord Jesus, above anything And under that bed there runs a flood The bells of paradise, I heard them ring The half it runs water, the other runs blood And I love my Lord Jesus, above anything And over that hall the moon shines bright The bells of paradise, I heard them ring Denoting our saviour was born that night And I love my Lord Jesus, above anything Genre Folk & Singer-Songwriter