Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song The Oxen, artist - Paul Kelly. Date of issue: 18.11.2021
Song language: English
The Oxen |
| Christmas Eve, and twelve of the clock |
| «Now they are all on their knees,» |
| An elder said as we sat in a flock |
| By the embers in hearthside ease |
| We pictured the meek mild creatures where |
| They dwelt in their strawy pen |
| Nor did it occur to one of us there |
| To doubt they were kneeling then |
| So fair a fancy few would weave |
| In these years! |
| Yet, I feel |
| If somone said on Christmas Eve |
| «Come see th oxen kneel |
| «In the lonely barton by yonder coomb |
| Our childhood used to know,» |
| I should go with him in the gloom |
| Hoping it might be so |