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| x Deck the Halls | English Language |
"Deck the Halls" (original English title: "Deck the Hall") is a traditional Yuletide and New Years' carol. The "fa-la-la" refrains were probably originally played on the harp. The melody is Welsh and belongs to a winter carol, Nos Galan. In the...
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| x Hark! The Herald Angels Sing | English Language |
"Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" is a Christmas hymn or carol written by Charles Wesley, the brother of John Wesley. It first appeared in Hymns and Sacred Poems in 1739, under the topic of "Hymn for Christmas-Day". The original opening couplet was ...
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| x Joy to the World | English Language |
"Joy to the World" is a popular Christmas carol.
The scripture-based words are by Isaac Watts. The music was adapted and arranged by Lowell Mason from an older melody which was then believed to have originated from Handel , not least because the...
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| x O Holy Night | English Language |
"O Holy Night" ("Cantique de Noël") is a well-known Christmas carol composed by Adolphe Adam in 1847 to the French poem "Minuit, chrétiens" (Midnight, Christians) by Placide Cappeau (1808-1877), a wine merchant and poet. Cappeau was asked by a...
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| x O Little Town of Bethlehem |
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"O Little Town of Bethlehem" is a popular Christmas carol.
Phillips Brooks (1835-1893), an Episcopal priest, Rector of the Church of the Holy Trinity, Philadelphia, was inspired when he was visiting the little town of Bethlehem in 1865. Three years...
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| x Silent Night |
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"Silent Night" (German: Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht) is a popular Christmas carol. The original lyrics of the song Stille Nacht were written in German by the Austrian priest Father Josef Mohr and the melody was composed by the Austrian headmaster...
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| x The Twelve Days of Christmas |
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"The Twelve Days of Christmas" is an English Christmas carol (Roud # 68) which enumerates a series of increasingly grandiose gifts given on each of the twelve days of Christmas, ultimately leaving the singer with 364 gifts from her "true love."...
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| x We Wish You a Merry Christmas | English Language |
"We Wish You a Merry Christmas" is a popular secular sixteenth-century English carol from the West Country of England . The origin of this Christmas carol lies in the English tradition where wealthy people of the community gave Christmas treats to...
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| x What Child Is This? |
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"What Child Is This?" is a popular Christmas carol that was written in 1865. At the age of twenty-nine, writer William Chatterton Dix was struck with a sudden near-fatal illness and confined to bedrest for several months, during which he went into a...
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| x Angels We Have Heard on High |
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"Angels We Have Heard on High" is a Christmas carol.
The words of the song are based on a traditional French carol known as Les Anges dans nos campagnes (literally, "Angels in our countryside"). Its most common English version was translated in 1862...
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| x Angels from the Realms of Glory | English Language |
"Angels from the Realms of Glory" is a Christmas carol written by James Montgomery. Its first printing was in the Sheffield Iris on Christmas Eve 1816, though it only began to be sung in churches after its 1825 reprinting in the Montgomery...
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| x Angelus ad virginem | English Language |
Angelus ad Virginem (or its English title, Gabriel, From Heven King Was To The Maide Sende) was a popular medieval carol, whose text is a poetic version of the Hail Mary and the Annunciation to the Virgin Mary. Probably Franciscan in origin, it was...
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| x Away in a Manger | English Language |
"Away in a Manger" is a religious Christmas carol first published in 1885 and used widely throughout the English-speaking world.
The song was first published with two verses in an Evangelical Lutheran Sunday School collection, Little Children's Book...
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| x Bethlehem Down | English Language |
Bethlehem Down is a choral anthem or carol composed in 1927 by Anglo-Welsh composer Peter Warlock (1894–1930) (the pseudonym of Philip Arnold Heseltine) and set to a poem written by journalist and poet Bruce Blunt (1899–1957). It is a popular anthem...
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| x Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella |
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"Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella" (French: Un flambeau, Jeannette, Isabelle) is a Christmas carol which originated from the Provence region of France in the 16th century. The song is unique among Christmas carols in that it is in 3/8 time.
The...
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| x The Carnal and the Crane | English Language |
"The Carnal and the Crane" is Child ballad 55 and a Christmas carol. It depicts a conversation between two birds -- apparently, although the species of the "carnal" has never been identified with any certainty, though crow is generally assumed.
A...
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| x Carol of the Old Ones | English Language |
"Carol of the Old Ones" is a song originally published in the 1988 HPLHS Solstice Carol Songbook, released by the H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society. With lyrics written by Andrew Leman it is sung and performed to the tune of Carol of the Bells by...
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| x The Cherry-Tree Carol | English Language |
"The Cherry-Tree Carol" is a ballad with the rare distinction of being both a Christmas carol and one of the Child Ballads (no. 54). The song itself is very old, reportedly being sung, in some form, at the Feast of Corpus Christi in the early 15th...
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| x Children, Go Where I Send Thee | English Language |
"Children, Go Where I Send Thee" is a traditional African-American spiritual song. This song is also known as "The Holy Baby" or "Born in Bethlehem." There are many versions of this song, the lyrics below were collected by Jean Ritchie from a school...
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| x Christmas on the Sea | English Language |
"Christmas on the Sea," also known as "Christmas by the Bay," is an old New England song (c. 1883) with music by George Frederick Root and lyrics by Hezekiah Butterworth. Reportedly it was President Theodore Roosevelt's favorite Christmas song. ...
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| x Come Buy My Nice Fresh Ivy | English Language |
Come Buy My Nice Fresh Ivy is a Christmas Carol which originated in Ireland.
The music is O'Carolan's Lament (Irish: Uaill-Cuma ui Cearballain), by Turlough O'Carolan.
The lyrics were written by John Keegan (1809-1849). They were published...
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| x Corpus Christi Carol | English Language |
Corpus Christi Carol is a Middle or Early Modern English hymn (or carol), first found in a manuscript written around 1504 by an apprentice grocer named Richard Hill. The original writer of the carol remains anonymous.
The structure of the carol is...
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| x Coventry Carol |
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The "Coventry Carol" is a Christmas carol dating from the 16th Century. The carol was performed in Coventry as part of a mystery play called The Pageant of the Shearmen and Tailors. The play depicts the Christmas story from chapter two in the Gospel...
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| x Ding Dong Merrily on High | English Language |
"Ding Dong Merrily on High" is a Christmas carol. The tune first appeared as a secular dance tune known as "le branle de l'Official" in Orchésographie, a dance book written by Jehan Tabourot (1519-1593). The text was composed by George Ratcliffe...
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| x Down In Yon Forest | English Language |
"Down in Yon Forest" (or "Down in Yon Forrest") is a traditional English Christmas carol dating to the Renaissance era.
The carol has been arranged in modern English by Ralph Vaughan Williams, John Jacob Niles and John Rutter, among others. It has...
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| x Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming | English Language |
Es ist ein Ros entsprungen, most commonly translated to English as Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming, is a Christmas carol of German origin. The text is thought to be penned by an anonymous author, and the piece first appeared in print in the late-16th...
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| x The First Noël | English Language |
"The First Nowell" (sometimes The First Noel or just Noel) is a traditional English Christmas carol, most likely from the 18th century. In its current form it is of Cornish origin, and it was first published in Some Ancient Christmas Carols (1823)...
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| x The Friendly Beasts | English Language |
"The Friendly Beasts" is a traditional Christmas song about the gifts that a donkey, a cow, a sheep, and a dove gave to Jesus at the Nativity. The song seems to have originated in 12th-century France, set to the melody of the Latin song Orientis...
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| x Fum, Fum, Fum | Catalan language |
Fum, Fum, Fum (pronounced foom, foom, foom) is a traditional Catalan Christmas carol.
It is thought to have originated in the 16th or 17th Century. The name is a Catalan onomatopoeia of the sound of the strumming of a stringed musical instrument....
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| x Gaudete |
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"Gaudete" ("Rejoice") is a sacred Christmas carol, composed sometime in the 16th century. The song was published in the Piae Cantiones, a collection of Finnish/Swedish sacred songs published in 1582. No music is given for the verses, but the...
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| x Glory to God | English Language |
"Glory to God" is a Christmas carol popular among American and Canadian Reformed churches that have Dutch roots. It is translated from the Dutch "Ere Zij God" and is one of the most beloved carols sung in the Protestant churches in the Netherlands....
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| x Go Tell It on the Mountain | English Language |
"Go Tell It on the Mountain" is an African-American spiritual written by John W. Work dating back to at least 1865 that has been sung and recorded by many gospel and secular performers. It is considered a Christmas carol because its original lyric...
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| x God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen | English Language |
God rest you merry, gentlemen (or incorrectly, God rest ye merry, gentlemen) is a traditional Christmas carol. The melody is in a minor key and is in common time or cut time. The composer is unknown; it is often attributed as English traditional.
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| x Good King Wenceslas |
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"Good King Wenceslas" is a popular Christmas carol about a king who goes out to give alms to a poor peasant on the Feast of Stephen (the second day of Christmas, December 26). During the journey, his page is about to give up the struggle against the...
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| x Hail Smiling Morn |
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Hail Smiling Morn, Roud #1346, is a glee which is sung either as a Christmas carol or as an Easter carol, and features in the Yorkshire pub Christmas singing traditions found in several parts of the city of Sheffield. It is performed also by choral...
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| x The Holly and the Ivy | English Language |
"The Holly and the Ivy" is a traditional Christmas carol, which is among the most lightly Christianized carols of the Yuletide. "Holly and ivy have been the mainstay of Christmas decoration for church use since at least the fifteenth and sixteenth...
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| x Huron Carol | English Language |
The "Huron Carol" (or "'Twas in the Moon of Wintertime") is a Canadian Christmas hymn (Canada's oldest Christmas song), written in 1643 by Jean de Brébeuf, a Jesuit missionary at Sainte-Marie among the Hurons in Canada. Brébeuf wrote the lyrics in...
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| x I Come With Love | English Language |
"I Come With Love" is a song written by Harry Connick Jr, first recorded for his Christmas album Harry for the Holidays.
"I Come with Love" is a Catholic layman's view of Christ's life in three stages, paralleling the Holy Trinity.
According to the...
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| x I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day | English Language |
"I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day" is a Christmas carol based on the poem "Christmas Bells," composed by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) in 1863.
Longfellow wrote "Christmas Bells" on Christmas Day 1863 in the midst of the American Civil...
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| x I Saw Three Ships | English Language |
I Saw Three Ships is a traditional and popular Christmas carol from England. Some sources assert that this song is "an upbeat variant of Greensleeves", which has a similar meter. The earliest printed version is from the 17th century, possibly...
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| x I Wonder As I Wander | English Language |
"I Wonder as I Wander" is a Christmas carol written by John Jacob Niles based on a fragment of a folk song collected in 1933.
"I Wonder as I Wander" has its origins in a song fragment collected on July 16, 1933 by folklorist and singer John Jacob...
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| x Ihr Kinderlein kommet | German Language |
Ihr Kinderlein kommet, or "Ye children come," is a German Christmas carol from the 18th century. The lyrics were written by Catholic priest and writer Christoph von Schmid, while the music was written by conductor Johann Abraham von Schulz. It was...
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| x In Dulci Jubilo |
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"In Dulci Jubilo" (English "In Sweetest Rejoicing" but most commonly arranged as "Good Christian Men, Rejoice") is a traditional Christmas Carol.
The original lyrics, a macaronic alternation of Medieval German and Latin, is thought to have been...
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| x In the Bleak Midwinter |
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"In the Bleak Midwinter" is a Christmas carol.
Although the lyrics were written as a poem by Christina Rossetti before 1872, it was published posthumously in Rossetti's Poetic Works in 1904 and became a Christmas carol after it appeared in The...
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| x Infant Holy, Infant Lowly | English Language |
"Infant holy, Infant lowly" is based on a traditional Polish Christmas carol, "W żłobie leży". This song was translated to English by Edith M.G.Reed. This carol is under public domain.
W żłobie leży! Któż pobieży
Kolędować małemu
Jezusowi...
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| x It Came upon a Midnight Clear |
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"It Came Upon the Midnight Clear" is a poem and Christmas carol written by Edmund Sears, pastor of the Unitarian Church in Weston, Massachusetts. It first appeared on December 29, 1849 in the Christian Register in Boston.
Sears is said to have...
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| x Jesus Christ the Apple Tree | English Language |
Jesus Christ the Apple Tree is a poem written by an unknown New Englander. It has been set to music by a number of composers, including Elizabeth Poston. The piece is performed by choirs around the world, especially during the Christmas season....
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| x Jingle Bells |
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"Jingle Bells" is one of the best known and commonly sung winter songs in the world. It was written by James Lord Pierpont (1822–1893) and copyrighted under the title 'One Horse Open Sleigh' on September 16, 1857. Despite being inextricably...
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| x Joy to the World | English Language |
"Joy to the World! The Lord Will Come" is an adaptation of the popular Christmas carol, Joy to the World. It was included in A Collection of Sacred Hymns (Kirtland, Ohio), the first Latter Day Saint hymnal published in 1835 or 1836.
The adapted...
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| x Kasadya Ning Taknaa | Cebuano language |
Kasadya Ning Taknaa is a Cebuano Christmas carol composed in 1933 by Vicente Rubi with lyrics by Mariano Vestil. Its famous counterpart is Ang Pasko Ay Sumapit, a modified version of the song written by Levi Celerio with lyrics in Tagalog (but not...
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| x Lasst uns froh und munter sein | English Language |
Lasst uns froh und munter sein, "Let us be happy and cheerful," is a traditional German Christmas carol. Lyrically, there are some regional variations, but the text below offers standard lyrics. The song is traditionally sung on Nicholas Eve ...
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| x Little Donkey | English Language |
Little Donkey is a popular Christmas carol by Eric Boswell. It describes the journey by Mary the mother of Jesus to Bethlehem on the donkey of the title.
The lyrics are as follows:
Little Donkey Little Donkey
On the dusty road
Got to keep on...
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| x Little Drummer Boy |
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"The Little Drummer Boy" is a popular Christmas song, with words and music by Katherine K. Davis. Henry Onorati and Harry Simeone have been credited with writing the song, even though they were only the arrangers for their recordings of it. The...
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| x O Sanctissima |
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O Sanctissima is a Roman Catholic hymn in Latin to the Blessed Virgin Mary. It is claimed that the tune of the hymn is Sicilian. The tune is sometimes called Sicilian Mariners Hymn or Mariners Hymn.
The words of the first verse of the hymn in Latin...
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| x O Tannenbaum | English Language |
"O Tannenbaum", or, in its English version, "O Christmas Tree", is a Christmas carol of German origin.
A Tannenbaum is a fir tree (German die Tanne) or Christmas tree (der Weihnachtsbaum). Its evergreen qualities have long inspired musicians to...
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| x O come, O come, Emmanuel | English Language |
O come, O come, Emmanuel is a translation of the Catholic Latin text ("Veni, veni, Emmanuel") by John Mason Neale in the mid-19th century. It is a metrical version of a collation of various Advent Antiphons (the acrostic O Antiphons), which now...
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| x Patapan | English Language |
"Patapan" (or "Pat-a-pan") is the title of a traditional French (specifically, Burgundian) Christmas carol. The carol revolves around the birth of Jesus Christ, and is told from the perspective of shepherds playing simple instruments--flutes and...
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| x St Day Carol | English Language |
The "Sans Day Carol" or "St. Day Carol" is one of the many Cornish Christmas carols written in the 19th century. This carol and melody were first transcribed from the singing of a villager in St Day in the parish of Gwennap, Cornwall. The lyrics are...
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| x Saint Stephen and Herod | English Language |
"St. Stephen and Herod" is Child ballad 22 and a Christmas carol. It depicts the martyrdom of Saint Stephen as occurring, with wild anachronism, under Herod the Great, and claims that that was the reason for St. Stephen's Day being the day after...
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| x The Seven Joys of Mary | English Language |
"The Seven Joys of Mary" (Roud # 278) is a traditional carol about Mary's happiness at moments in the life of Jesus, probably inspired by the trope of the Seven Joys of the Virgin in the devotional literature and art of Medieval Europe. Though not...
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