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Sweet Bells

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Length
  
49:14

Sweet Bells (2008)
  
Make the Light (2010)

Release date
  
2008

Genre
  
Folk music

Producer
  
Kate Rusby, Joe Rusby

Artist
  
Kate Rusby

Label
  
Pure Records

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Released
  
15 December 2008 (original) 9 November 2009 (re-release)

Similar
  
Kate Rusby albums, Folk music albums

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Sweet Bells is the first Christmas album by English contemporary folk musician Kate Rusby, released on 15 December 2008 on Pure Records. In November 2011, Rusby released a follow-up, entitled While Mortals Sleep (2011).

Contents

The album was re-released on 9 November 2009 featuring new cover artwork by Marie Mills. Sweet Bells, the carol featured on the album, is a carol peculiar to Yorkshire, based on the carol While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night but with an alternative tune and extra lyrics.

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Track listing

  1. "Here We Come A-Wassailing"
  2. "Sweet Bells"
  3. "Poor Old Horse"
  4. "Hark the Herald"
  5. "The Holly and the Ivy"
  6. "Hark, Hark, What News"
  7. "Candlemas Eve"
  8. "Hail Chime On"
  9. "Serving Girl's Holiday"
  10. "Awake Arise Good Christians"
  11. "The Miner's Dream of Home"

Songs

1Here We Come A-Wassailing3:13
2Sweet Bells3:37
3Poor Old Horse3:45

References

Sweet Bells Wikipedia
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