This version of the traditional Irish Christmas carol "Wexford Carol" was created during a precious studio session, first thing in the morning after a marathon recording session the day before. We were definitely tired, but also intuitively connected on what we wanted for this song. Shane Adams (producer and pianist) played his gentle but complex arrangement for me once. Then we floated through our recording performance, and in just two takes, we had what we thought was a version on which we could not improve. Later Kristen Wilkenson added her powerfully reverent strings, finishing our heartfelt version of this carol and the story behind it. Believe me, in music production, it is rare that any song is almost effortless, but this one was.
Credits:
Vocals - Rändi Fay
Piano – Shane Adams
String Arrangements – Kristin Wilkinson
Recording Engineer - Brandon Henegar
Mix Engineer – Mike Walter
Mastering Engineer – Jim DeMain for Yes Masters
Produced and Arranged by Shane Adams for Artist Accelerator
Lyrics
Good people all, this Christmas time
Consider well and bear in mind
What our good God for us has done
In sending his beloved son
With Mary holy we should pray
To God with love this Christmas Day
In Bethlehem upon that morn
There was a blessed Messiah born
Near Bethlehem did shepherds keep
Their flocks of lambs and feeding sheep
To whom God's angels did appear
Which put the shepherds in great fear
'Prepare and go, ' the angels said
'To Bethlehem, be not afraid
For there you'll find, this happy morn
A princely babe, sweet Jesus born
With thankful heart and joyful mind
The shepherds went, this babe to find
And as God's angel had foretold
They did our saviour Christ behold
Within a manger he was laid
And by his side the virgin maid
As was foretold upon that morn
There was a blessed Messiah born