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Carols are much weirder than we think

Behind ‘O come, all ye faithful’, for example, lies theological gynaecology

Christopher Howse
‘Carols are songs with a religious impulse that are simple, hilarious, popular and modern,’ begins the preface to the Oxford Book of Carols. Can the authors really have thought that? Hulton Archive/Getty Images
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