A Shire Yule Songbook

by dreamflower02

Over the years I have written a number of "Yule carols" that hobbits like to sing in the Shire over the festive season. I hope to share these with you in the days leading up to the holidays! I hope it will get you into the holiday spirit! Every year I try to add at least one new one. This year: My 2015 New Year's Wish for one and all!

2. It is the Turning of the Year

(Another Shire Yule Carol, written in 2005, and first appearing in my story "Eucatastrophe: Yuletide in Minas Anor"; it has since appeared in other stories.)

IT IS THE TURNING OF THE YEAR

It is the turning of the year,
In the mid-winter, bleak and blear-
While the weather is dark and drear
When we find joy and good cheer!
For friends and kin from far and near
Gather with all that they hold dear.
Away with sorrow, away with fear:
And with good song, good food, good beer,
Welcome the turning of the year!

[AUTHOR'S NOTE: I imagine this song as more or less scanning to "O Come, O Come Emanuel". ]