Christmas songs?

[neloon]

I'm afraid Anne's right, Katia. In Calvinist Scotland, the Christ-mass Festival was regarded as some kind of Popish/Episcopalian blasphemy not to be celebrated. When I was young (1940s) people generally worked as usual on Christmas Day - there were no decorations, no carol singing, no over-indulgence. Over the intervening years that has changed as the population became less religious and therefore less bigoted and the commercial influences surged northwards from England so that nowadays Christmas is simply a pre-Hogmanay event and, by combining the two holidays, the whole process can sometimes extend over two weeks.
Anyway, the upshot of history is just that there were no traditional peculiarly Scottish (Lowland) carols post 1500 though, in the Catholic parts of the Highlands, there would have been a few lovely things like the "Christ Child's Lullaby".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuzQmy-muUE
or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVTc1HAR1xs
Here are the words
http://www.omniglot.com/songs/bcc/ch...ildlyllaby.php
Ailean