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Article: THE SONGS REMAIN THE SAME FA LA LA LA LA... LA LA LA LA - Once passe, Christmas carolers are back, and striking a welcome note in the city
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- December 21, 2008
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Music
As shoppers bundled in pea coats and scarves whisked by a
storefront on Newbury Street last weekend, a blend of voices stopped
some of them cold.
On the front steps stood a quartet of singers dressed in
Dickensian garb, clutching songbooks and looking like the kind of
genteel folks who lead Freedom Trail tours. The refrains, rendered
in four-part harmonies as crisp as the evening air, were familiar:
"Deck the halls with boughs of holly/ Fa la la la la la la la
la."
A young woman approached and tugged on her friend's coat sleeve:
"Oh, look, they're singing ..."
She paused just a second to find the right words. "... Christmas
carols."
A few minutes later an elderly passerby fumbled ...