So I did more digging about the scandalous new-fangled AMERICAN version of Away In A Manger. The setting is known as 'Mueller', although I don't know why, because it was composed by a guy called James R Murray. Maybe he was just really into yoghurt. Meanwhile, the UK version is called 'Cradle Song', and was written by William J Kirkpatrick. And it is the ORIGINAL as well as THE BEST. Why, it predates the Mueller version by er a whole TWO YEARS erm. 1895 vs 1897. 

And they were both Americans FFS.

Anyway. Merry Christmas, part one! We'll go deeper and weirder next week xxx