Gaudete

Gaudete! gaudete!
Christus est natus ex Maria virgine,
gaudete!
Gaudete! gaudete!
Christus est natus ex Maria virgine,
gaudete!

Tempus adest gratiae, hoe quod optabamus;
carmina laetitiae devote reddamus.
Gaudete! gaudete!
Christus est natus ex Maria virgine,
gaudete!
Gaudete! gaudete!
Christus est natus ex Maria virgine,
gaudete!

Deus homo factus est, natura mirante;
mundus renovatus est a Christo regnante.
Gaudete! gaudete!
Christus est natus ex Maria virgine,
gaudete!
Gaudete! gaudete!
Christus est natus ex Maria virgine,
gaudete!

Ezecaelis orta clausa per transistur;
unde lux est orta, salus invenitur.
Gaudete! gaudete!
Christus est natus ex Maria virgine,
gaudete!
Gaudete! gaudete!
Christus est natus ex Maria virgine,
gaudete!

Ergo nostra contio psallat iam in lustro;
Benedicat Domino; salus regi nostro.
Gaudete! gaudete!
Christus est natus ex Maria virgine,
gaudete!
Gaudete! gaudete!
Christus est natus ex Maria virgine,
gaudete!

From the 1972 album, "Below the Salt" by Steeleye Span... actually the first song I heard by Steeleye Span was an a capella cover of Buddy Holly's "Rave on", complete with crackles and jumping needle line repeats.
I also misheard their name.
I was looking in the record shop for "The Steel-Ice Band" Anyway, somehow I came home with "Please to See the King", their second album. And was hugely disappointed when I discovered it wasn't quirky rock'n'roll spoofery, but a set of boring old folk songs. All that finger-in-one-ear dronery....
Then I listened again.
Then again.
And again...

And I was addicted.

Here, have another one, from that first album I bought....