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| x Give Love on Christmas Day |
"Give Love on Christmas Day" was a Christmas classic soul original by Motown family quintet The Jackson 5. It was released to R&B; radio in 1970. The song was written by the famed label's songwriting-producing team, The Corporation.
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| x All I Want for Christmas Is You |
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"All I Want for Christmas Is You" is a song by American singer Mariah Carey and Walter Afanasieff, recorded for Carey's fifth album Merry Christmas (1994). Its protagonist declares that she does not care about Christmas presents or lights; all she...
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| x The Christmas Song |
“The Christmas Song”, commonly subtitled “Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire“ or “Merry Christmas to You”, is a classic Christmas song written in 1944 by vocalist Mel Tormé and Bob Wells. According to Tormé, the song was written during a blistering...
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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 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 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 Jingle Bell Rock |
"Jingle Bell Rock" is the name of a popular Christmas song. It was first released by Bobby Helms in 1957 and has received frequent airplay during every Christmas time since then. "Jingle Bell Rock" was written by Joe Beal (1900–1967), a...
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| x Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas |
"Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" is a Christmas song introduced by Judy Garland in the 1944 MGM musical Meet Me in St. Louis. Frank Sinatra later recorded a version with modified lyrics, which has become more common than the original. The...
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| x Winter Wonderland |
"Winter Wonderland" is a Christmas time pop standard written in 1934 by Felix Bernard (composer) and Richard B. Smith (lyricist). It has been recorded many different times by such artists as Bob Dylan, Tom Astor, George Strait, Tony Bennett, Karen...
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| x O Tannenbaum |
"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 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 Fum, Fum, Fum |
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 Angels from the Realms of Glory |
"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 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 Away in a Manger |
"Away in a Manger" is a religious Christmas carol first published in 1885 in Philadelphia and used widely throughout the English-speaking world. In Britain it is one of the most popular carols, a 1996 Gallop Poll ranking it joint second.
The song...
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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.
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| x Calypso Carol |
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The Calypso Carol is a popular modern Christmas carol, with the opening line "See him lying on a bed of straw".
It has often been introduced by BBC announcers and others as a traditional folk carol from the West Indies. The calypso of the title...
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| x Carol of the Bells |
"Carol of the Bells" (also known as the "Ukrainian Bell Carol") is a choral miniature work originally composed by the Ukrainian composer Mykola Dmytrovych Leontovych. Throughout the composition, Leontovych used a four note motif as an ostinato which...
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| x The Cherry-Tree Carol |
"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 |
"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 is Coming |
"Christmas Is Coming" is a nursery rhyme and Christmas carol (frequently sung as a round) with lyrics as follows:
The musical version of the rhyme was popularized by The Kingston Trio as "A Round About Christmas", on their album The Last Month of...
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| x Come Buy My Nice Fresh Ivy |
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 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 Deck the Halls |
"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 tune is Welsh dating back to the sixteenth century, and belongs to a...
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| x Ding Dong Merrily on High |
"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 |
"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 The First Noël |
"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 |
"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 Gaudete |
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"Gaudete" (pronounced gow-DAE-tae, "rejoice" in Latin) 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...
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| x Gesù bambino |
"Gesù bambino" is an Italian Christmas carol composed by Pietro Yon in 1917. It was translated to English by Frederick H. Martens. The lyrics of the chorus are also the same as the lyrics in the chorus of O Come All Ye Faithful.
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| x Glory to God |
"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 |
"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 |
God rest you merry, gentlemen (more traditionally 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 Hark! The Herald Angels Sing |
"Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" is a Christmas hymn or carol written by Charles Wesley, brother of the Methodist movement founder John Wesley. It first appeared in Hymns and Sacred Poems in 1739, under the topic of "Hymn for Christmas-Day". The...
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| x Here We Come A-Wassailing |
Here We Come A-Wassailing (or Here We Come A-Caroling) is a Christmas carol and New Years song. It refers to 'wassailing', or singing carols door to door.. An old English wassail song, or song to wish good health, which is what "wassail" means....
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| x The Holly and the Ivy |
"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 |
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 Heard the Bells on Christmas Day |
"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 Pray On Christmas |
"I Pray on Christmas" is a Christmas carol with music and lyrics by Harry Connick Jr. First released in 1993 on his multi platinum album When My Heart Finds Christmas. Connick has also released the song on his Christmas Special VHS in 1994, and...
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| x I Saw Three Ships |
"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 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. In its original setting, the carol is a macaronic text of German and Latin dating from the Middle Ages....
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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 English poet Christina Rossetti before 1872, it was published posthumously in Rossetti's Poetic Works in 1904 and became a Christmas carol after it appeared...
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| x Infant Holy, Infant Lowly |
"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 I Wonder As I Wander |
"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 Joy to the World |
"Joy to the World" is a popular Christmas carol.
The words are by English hymn writer Isaac Watts, based on Psalm 98 in the Bible. The song was first published in 1719 in Watts' collection; The Psalms of David: Imitated in the language of the New...
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| x Little Donkey |
Little Donkey is a popular Christmas carol by English hymnwriter Eric Boswell, who died on 29 November, 2009. 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,...
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| x Night of Silence |
Night of Silence is a Christmas carol and Roman Catholic Advent hymn, written in 1981 by Daniel Kantor, and then published in 1984 by GIA Publications. The carol is a "quodlibet", the term used for a song that can be sung simultaneously with another...
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| x O come, O come, Emmanuel |
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 O Holy Night |
"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 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 Past Three O'Clock |
"Past Three O'Clock" (or "Past Three A Clock") is a Christmas carol, loosely based on the traditional cry of the city night watchman:
The words were written by George Ratcliffe Woodward (1848–1934) to the traditional tune "London Waits". Woodward...
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| x Patapan |
"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 |
The "Sans Day Carol" or "St. Day Carol" is one of the many Cornish Christmas carols written in the 19th century. This carol and its melody were first transcribed from the singing of Thomas Beard, a villager in St Day in the parish of Gwennap,...
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| x Sussex Carol |
Sussex Carol is a Christmas carol popular in Britain.
Also known as On Christmas Night True Christians Sing and On Christmas Night All Christians Sing, its words were first published by Luke Wadding, a 17th-century Irish bishop, in a work called...
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| x Sweet Little Jesus Boy |
Sweet Little Jesus Boy is a Christmas song composed by Robert MacGimsey and published in 1934. Its style is similar to African-American spirituals. It has been recorded by many choirs and solo artists.
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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. Although it was first published in England in 1780, textual evidence may...
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| x Tu scendi dalle stelle |
"Tu scendi dalle stelle" (From Starry Skies Thou Comest, From Starry Skies Descending, You Came a Star from Heaven, You come down from the stars) is the best known Christmas carol originating in Italy. Though found in numerous arrangements and...
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| x A Virgin Unspotted |
A Virgin Unspotted is a Christmas carol. It originates from 1661, when the oldest known version was written in "New Carolls for this Merry Time of Christmas". It is said to be based on A Virgin Most Pure, a similar carol.
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