When thou from hence away art past

Whaddya know, I managed to find a YouTube version of the Mediæval Bæbes singing "The Lyke-Wake Dirge" that doesn't have screenshots of Rome: Total War plastered all over it. (Don't ask - that confuses me just as much as it does you.) So here it is, the unseelie alternative to "Auld Lang Syne". Happy New Year!

Update Feb 2017: that version got deleted, so here is the video with the Rome game footage (really, why?!) while above you've got Pentangle's rendition from the 1970s. And read more about the dirge in this piece by Dr Rebekah King.

This aye night

Actually it's not "This Ay Nicht", which I really like because it's all doomy winter and has that line in it about fire and sleet and candlelight. (The real line is "and fleet", ie floor-space, which makes more sense - but we like "sleet" and so do the Baebes.) But this song is "Tam Lin", which is equally faerie-dusted and comes from the Mediæval Bæbes' album Mirabilis. So that's why.