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The Hymns and Carols of Christmas
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Indices of the Hymns and Carols of
Christmas: |
4 Real Christmas (Written by Montrell Darrett, copyright 1996, performed by Commissioned; it is found on the 1996 CD "The Real Meaning of Christmas"; link opens in a new window at Amazon.com)
A Babe In Bethlehem Is Born - Translator Unknown; Possibly W. J.
Blew.
A Babe is Born in Bethlehem -
Krauth Translation
A Babe is Born in Bethlehem -
Schaff Translation, alt.
A Babe Is Born In Bethlehem -
From Woodward
The Babe Is Born in Bethlehem -
From Pettman
A Babe Is Born Of High Nature (Alternate Title: What Tidings?)
A Babe Is Born, All Of A Maid (Version 1)
A Babe Is Born (All of a May - Version 2)
A Babe Is Born, Our Blysse To Brynge (MacCracken)
A Babe Is Born To Blis Vs Brynge (Flügel)
A Babe Is Born, To Blys Vs Brynge (Dyboski)
A Babe Is Born, To Bliss Us Bring (Rickert)
A Babe Is Born Who Bliss Shall Bring (Weston)
A Babe Lies in the Cradle (German: Ein Kindlein in der wiegen)
A Babel Of Confusion, Andrew E Pratt (born 1948) © 1996 Stainer & Bell Ltd.
A Baby Just Like You (Words and Music by John Denver and Joe Henry, copyright 1975)
A Boy is Born in Bethlehem. H. J. D. Ryder, in O. Shipley's Annus Sanctus. 1884.
A Boy is Born in Bethlehem - Translator Unknown
A Boy Is Born In Bethlehem, And joy is in Jerusalem. Rev. J. O'Connor from R. R. Terry, Two Hundred Folk Carols, 1933.
A Boy Was Born in Bethlehem - Baird; moreso than others, this is a song inspired by, rather than a translation of, the Latin original.
A Carol For Christmas Day Before Dawn (First Line: O' Bethlem town to-night is cold)
A Carol for Christmas Eve (from Bramley and Stainer; compare The Lord At First Had Adam Made from Sandys)
A Carol For Christmas Eve - Louis F. Benson (First Line: The winter night was dark and still)
A Carol Of The Birth of Christ (First Line: Come to Bethlehem and ye shall see)
A Carol on the Birth of Christ (Was not Christ our Saviour / Sent unto us from God above)
A Caroling We Go (Johnny Marks, copyright 1966)
A Child For Us is Born This Day
A Child Is Born In Bethlehem, And joy
has filled Jerusalem. From John Bowring, Hymns (1825).
A Child Is Born In Bethlehem, And joy is in Jerusalem. P. S.
Worsley, in his Poems, &. 1875.
A Child Is Born In Bethlehem, And joyful is Jerusalem. R. F.
Littledale, in Lyra Messianica, 1864, p. 69.
A Child is Born in Bethlehem, in Bethlehem; And gladness fills
Jerusalem, Allelujah! Allelujah! - English translation of the Danish
Translation, Et
Barn Er Født I Betlehem by Nicolai Grundvig, from the Latin Puer
Natus in Bethlehem; Translator Unknown
A Child is Born in Bethlehem, in Bethlehem; And joy is in
Jerusalem, Allelujah! Allelujah!- Translator Unknown
A Child Is Born in Bethlehem, Rejoice and sing, &c. P. Schaff,
in his Christ in Song, N.Y. 1869.
A Child Is Born In Bethlehem, Rejoice, rejoice, Jerusalem! -
Translation by H. L. Jenner from Chope, Carols For Use In Church,
1894.
A Child Is Born in Bethlehem, Rejoice,
rejoice, Jerusalem. E. R. Charles and W. J. Blew, Trns., The New
Office Hymn Book, Parts III & IV.
A Child Is Born In Bethlehem, Rejoice, rejoice, Jerusalem. J. W.
Hewett. 1859.
A Child is Born in Bethlehem;
Exult for joy, &c. (together with the Latin). H. M. Macgill. 1876.
The Child Is Born In Bethlehem, Sing and be glad, Jerusalem! -
Elizabeth Charles
A Child
My Choice (Alternate Title: Let Folly Praise That Fancy Loves)
A Child This Day Is Born – Version 1 (William Sandys)
A Child This Day Is Born – Version 2 (Bramley & Stainer)
A Child This Day Is Born – Version 3 (Hutchins)
A Child This Day Is Born - Version 4 (Pettman)
A Child This Day Is Born - Version 5 (Terry)
A Child This Day Is Born (Elizabeth Poston, The Penguin Book of Christmas Carols, copyright 1965)
A Christmas Carol (First Line: "Let Us Sing The Birth")
A Christmas Carol - Herrick (First line: "What sweeter music can we bring")
A Christmas Carol - Ives (First Line: "Little Star Of Bethlehem!"
A Christmas Carol - Rossetti (First Line: "The Shepherds had an Angel")
A Christmas Carol (Alternate Title: The Shepherds Went Their Hasty Way - Coleridge)
A Christmas Child (Quand Dieu Naquit - A Noel)
A Christmas Hymn (First line: Tell me what is this innumerable throng)
A Christmas Folk Song (First Line: DE win' is blowin' wahmah)
A Christmas Long Ago (Words and Music: Edward R. Brian, copyright 1987; performed by The Echelons)
A Christmas Love Song (Words by Alan & Marilyn Berman ; music by Johnny Mandel; copyright 1988; links open at a new site.)
A Christmas Lullaby (First Line: Sleep, baby, sleep ! The Mother sings)
A Christmas Song (Laurence Housman; First line: Then from His throne the Godhead bowed)
A Christmas To Remember (Words and Music by Amy Grant, Chris Eaton, Beverly Darnall, copyright 1999; From A Christmas To Remember, Amy Grant; link open in a new window at the website of Amy Grant)
A Cradle Hymn (Watts, 1715; Alternate ow Titles: A Christmas Lullaby, or Hush! My Dear, Lie Still and Slumber)
A Cradle in Bethlehem (Words and Music: Lawrence Stock and Alfred Bryan, 1952; Performed by Nat King Cole and Vince Gill)
A Cradle-Song of the Blessed Virgin (Alternate Title: The Virgin Stills The Crying)
A Dialogue Between Dives and Lazarus - Two 18th Century Broadsides
A ferly thyng it is to mene - Thomas Wright (1847)
A Great And Mighty Wonder - Version 1
A Great and Mighty Wonder – Version 2
A Great and Mighty Wonder – Version 3
A Holly Jolly Christmas (Words & Music by Johnny Marks, copyright 1962)
A Hymn For Christmas Day (First Line: Awake, my soul, and come away)
A Is For Advent, Cyril G. Hambly (born 1931) © 1972 Stainer & Bell Ltd. & The Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes
A Jolly Wassel Bowl (Middle English)
A Joyful Christmas Song (Words: Minna Louise Hohman, circa 1947; Music: Francois Auguste Gevaert (1828-1908), copyright 1917)
A Little Child There Is Ybore (Alternate Title: Susanni); Translation of Vom Himmel hoch o Engel kommt
A Little Child There Is Yborn (Also: Gloria Tibi, Domine)
A Manger Filled With Love (Link opens in a new window at Sally DeFord Music)
A Marshmallow World (Words by Carl Sigman, Music by Peter De Rose, copyright 1949)
A Merry, Merry Christmas To You (Johnny Marks, copyright 1958)
A New Carol of Our Lady (First Line: Lords and ladies all bydene)
A New Yeres Gyft, Intituled, A Playne Pathway To Perfect Rest
A Pilgrim's Song (Alternate Title: A Few More Years Shall Flow)
A Rocking Hymn (First Line: Sweet baby, sleep ; what ails my dear?)
A Ship Is Coming Laden, Es kommt ein Schiff geladen by Johannes Tauler (c.1300-1361) translated by Alan Luff (born 1928) and Enid Luff (born 1935), English translation © 1997 Stainer & Bell Ltd.
A Soldier’s King (Words and Music: John Barlow Jarvis and Kenny Horton, copyright 1996)
A Song Of the Ivy and the Holly (Middle English, Alternate Title: Nay Iuy, Nay, Hyt Shall Not Be, I Wys)
A song upon, Now I must sing (Under a tree, in sporting me)
A Splendrous Dream This Christmastime - Daniel Jencka, copyright 2005 (link opens in a new window at an external site).
A Stable Lamp is Lighted (Richard Wilbur (1921-) copyright 1961)
A Very Merry Christmas (R. Meyers, Date Unknown)
A Virgin Most Pure - Gilbert (1823)
The Virgin Unspotted (Walters, A Good Christmas Box, 1846)
A Virgin Unspotted (Bramley & Stainer) (ca 1860s)
A Virgin Most Pure - Knapp (1743) - with the tune "Christmas Hymn" by William Knapp, from Wyeth's Second Repository of Sacred Music; also published in The Hesperian Harp.
A Virgin Most Pure-Harding B 7(4) (Between 1813 and 1838.)
A Virgin Most Pure (Gilbert, 1822, with Notes)
A Virgin Most Pure from Harding B 11 (3920) (Date unknown)
A Virgin Most Blessed (Hutchins, 1916)
A woman a mayd in thought and deede (Middle English; retyped in Old Blackletter)
A Wondrous Word (First Line: As midnight hush so calm and still)
A Yeoman's Carol (First Line: Let Christians all with joyful mirth)
A, a, a, a - Mary Is A Lady Bright (Rickert)
About The Field They Pipëd Right (Rickert)
Abowt the fyld thei pyped full right (Wright)
Ad cantum leticie (Alternate Title: Love and hope of heav'nly rest)
Adam lay ibounden (Chambers & Sidgwick)
Adam lay ybounden (Rickert)
Adam lay i-bowndyn (Wright, 1856)
Adeste Fideles (Wade: O Come All Ye Faithful)
Adeste Fideles (Watts; First Line: "Lord, 'tis a pleasant thing to stand")
Advent of Our God, The (Chandler Translation of Instantis adventum Dei by Charles Coffin)
Advent of Our God, The (Packer Translation of Instantis adventum Dei by Charles Coffin)
The Advent of Our God at Hand (L C. Earle Translation of Instantis adventum Dei by Charles Coffin)
The Advent of our King - (Hymns Ancient and Modern Translation of Instantis adventum Dei by Charles Coffin)
After December Slips Away (Written by Bonnie K. Keen & Lowell Talmader Alexander, Jr., copyright 1995)
Agnus Dei (Words and Music by Michael W. Smith, copyright 1990; From A Christmas To Remember, Amy Grant; links open in a new window at the websites of Amy Grant and Michael W. Smith, respectively)
Ah, Bleak and Chill the Wintry Wind (Bates Burt and Alfred Burt, copyright 1954; opens in new window at the Alfred Burt Carols web site)
Ah! Those Merry Christmas Chimes (Title: Christmas Chimes); Words by Mary A. McKee and Music by Pemberton Pierce
All Christian people pray attend (The Creation of the World)
All Hail Immanuel (Words and music by Adrian V. Miller, copyright, used with permission; for more Miller carols, please visit New Hope Music)
All Hail To The Days (Alternate title: All Hail To The Days That Merit More Praise, Drive the Cold Winter Away, and several others)
All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth (Donald Yetter Gardner, copyright 1946)
All I Want For Christmas Is You (Mariah Carey and Walter Afanasieff, copyright 1995)
All Is Well (Words: Wayne Kirkpatrick; Music: Michael W. Smith; copyright date: TBD)
All My Heart This Night Rejoices – Version 1 (German, Frohlich soll mein Herze springen)
All My Heart This Night Rejoices – Version 3 (Jubilate Hymns, copyright)
All mydle erthe it shall fulfyll (Middle English; retyped in Old Blackletter)
All On a Christmas Morning (Bates Burt and Alfred Burt, copyright 1954; opens in new window at the Alfred Burt Carols web site)
All Over Creation (Christmas) - Shirley Erena Murray (opens in a new window at an exterior site)
All Praise To Thee, Eternal Lord (Alternate Title: All Praise To Thee, Eternal God)
All They Wanted Was A Shelter, Fred Pratt Green 1903-2000 © 1975 Stainer & Bell Ltd.
All This Night (Alternate Title: All This Night Bright Angels Sing)
All Who Would See God's Greatness (Marnie Barrell, copyright 1995)
All You Need Is Elves (Humor from Bob Rivers, Bob Rivers’ Twisted Tunes)
All You That Are To Mirth Inclined (with Sandys' note)
All You Who are To Mirth Inclined (Old Christmas Returned - Sylvester)
All You That To Feasting And Mirth Are Inclined (Middle English)
Alleluia, Song of Sweetness - Version 1
Alleluya. The Joy of Virgin Mary | Alleluya pro Virgine Maria
Alma redemptoris mater (Alternate Title: As I Lay Upon A Night)
Almost Day (It's Almost Day, Huddie Ledbetter, copyright 1952)
Always Winter but Never Christmas (Performed by XTC, copyright 1992)
Always There's a Carol (Christmas) - Shirley Erena Murray (opens in a new window at an exterior site)
Amen (Traditional Spiritual)
An Heavenly Song, I Dare Well Say (Alternate Title: This Day)
An Old Fashioned Christmas (Copyright: Richard Carpenter and Richard Bettis)
And Can It Be That God Is Born ("Knowing Him In The Breaking of Bread") - For Christmas
And His Name Shall Be Called Wonderful (Link opens in a new window at Sally DeFord Music)
'And Was Made Man!' Oh, Wondrous Words! - The Incarnation
The Angel Gabriel (Alternative Title: The Angel Gabriel From Heaven Came)
Angel Gabriel From God, The (The Angel Gabriel From God,
Sandys)
Come The Archangel To the Maid
Angel Gabriel, The (Bramley and Stainer; The Angel Gabriel From God)
Angel's Song, The - Version 1 (Robert Lowry)
Angel's Song, The - Version 2 (Charles Vincent - Last Night As I Lay Sleeping)
The Angels (First line: Run, shepherds, run where Bethlehem blest appears)
Angels Above on Advent Morn (Alternate Title: The
Angels Above on Advent Morn (Alternate Title: The Christ Child)
The Angels Came to Sing (Link opens in a new window at Sally DeFord Music)
Angels O'er The Fields Were Singing (French: Les Anges dans nos Campagnes, translation by George K. Evans, copyright 1963)
Angels We Have Heard On High (French: Les Anges dans nos Campagnes)
Angels, We Have Heard Your Voices (Words: Traditional French carol, "Les Anges dans nos Campagnes," From R. R. Terry, Two Hundred Folk Carols, 1933)
Angelus Ad Virginem Translations and adaptations include, but are not limited to:
Angel Gabriel, The (Alternative Title: The Angel Gabriel From Heaven Came)
Angel Gabriel From God, The (Sandys)
Gabriel From Heaven-King (Middle English)
Gabriel From Heaven's King (Angelus Ad Virginem, Gerald Manley Hopkins)
Gabriel To Mary Came (John Macleod Campbell Crum, 1932)
Gabriel To Mary Came (Elizabeth Poston, The Penguin Book of Christmas Carols, copyright 1965)
Gabriel To Mary Came (Pickard-Cambridge)
Gabriel To Mary Went (Rev. J. O'Connor)
Gabriel's Message (Sabine Baring-Gould) Alternate Titles The Angel Gabriel and The Angel Gabriel From Heaven Came
Annunciation Song (Sing of Mary, Blest is She) - Words by Rev. Vince Uher, copyright 1996
Annual Animal Christmas Ball, The (George David Weiss, copyright 1988)
Another Christmas Song (Jethrow Tull, copyright 1989)
Anthem for Christmas (Words: Gloria Gaither; Music: Michael W. Smith; 1989; link opens in a new window at the website of Michael W. Smith)
Are My Ears On Straight (Words and Music: Melville Abner Levin, copyright 1953; First Line: I'm a little doll who was dropped and broken)
Arise and Shine Forth (Words and Music: Michael McLean (1952-), The Forgotten Carols (Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret Book Co., 1991, rev. 2003). Links open at exterior sites.
Arise and Wake (Alternate Title: Out Of Your Sleep Arise and Wake)
As I Came By A Grene Forest Syde - Haslewood, 1801
As I Came By A Green Forest Side - Vizetelly, 1851
As I Came By A Grene Forest Syde - Flügen and Schirmer, 1889
As I Came By A Green Forest-side (A Carol of Hunting) - Rickert, 1910, 1914
As I Lay Up On A Night (Chambers and Sidgwick), Trinity College, Cambridge
As I Lay Upon A Night (Fuller Maitland, ca. 1891), identified as Trinity College, Cambridge; with sheet music
As I Lay Upon A Night (#174) (Terry, Two Hundred Folk Carols), Selden B26
As I Lay Upon a Night (#189) (Terry, Two Hundred Folk Carols), Trinity College, Cambridge
As I lay upon a ny3t (Wright, 1856), Sloane MS. 2593
As Y Lay Vpon A Ny3t-Padelford (Padelford in Anglia XII), Selden B26 and 3 other Manuscripts (Sloane, Balliol and Trinity)
As I Me Lay On A Nyght (Flügel in Anglia XXVI), Balliol 354
As I Up Ros In A Mornyng (Wright, 1847)
As I me ros in on morwenyng (Wright, 1856)
As I out rode this enders night (Tyrle, tyrlow, tyrle, tyrlow)
As I Sat By My Old Cottage Door (Sharp)
As I Sat On A Sunny Bank - Version 1
As I went this enders day (Middle English; retyped in Old Blackletter)
As I Went Through A Garden Green (Rickert)
As I went throw a gardyn grene (Wright, 1856)
As It Fell Out One May Morning (The Holy Well)
As Jesus Christ Lay Fast Asleep, Fred Pratt Green 1903-2000 from an old Welsh Carol © 1974 Stainer & Bell Ltd.
As Joseph And Mary Were A-Walking The Green (For this and the following two, see The Cherry Tree Carols)
As Joseph Was A Walking - Gauntlett (from Chope) (1894)
As Joseph Was A-Waukin' - Stevenson, ed., The Home Book of Verse, Volume 1 (1912)
As Joseph Was A-Walking - Terry, Twelve Christmas Carols (1912)
As Joseph Was A-Walking - Old Christmas Carols (1923)
As Joseph Was A-Walking - Two Hundred Folk Carols (1932)
As Shepherds Kept Their Lonely Vigil (Link opens in a new window at Sally DeFord Music)
As The Darkness Grows Around Us, Andrew E Pratt (born 1948) © 1995 Stainer & Bell Ltd.
At Bethlehem, John Ferguson (1921-1989) © 1982 Stainer & Bell Ltd.
At The Beginning Of The Meat (Middle English: At The Begynnyng Of The Mete from Wright, 1847)
At The Census In The City, Andrew E Pratt (born 1948) © 2002 Stainer & Bell Ltd.
At the Nativity (First Line: Gloomy Night Embraced The Place)
At This Time Of Grace (Latin: Gaudete! Gaudete! Christus est natus)
Augustus Caesar Having Brought - Davies Gilbert, 1823
Augustus Caesar Having Brought - William Sandys, 1833
Ave Maria (Latin and English)
Awake! Awake! The Watchman Calls (Translation of Nicoli, Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme)
Awake! Ye Nations (I & II)
Away in a Manger (I Thank Thee, Dear Father) (Link opens in a new window at Sally DeFord Music)
Away Dark Thoughts (From A Good Christmas Box)
Away, Dark Thoughts, Awake My Joys (From R. R. Chope, alt.)
Away, Dark Thoughts; Awake, My Joy - John Mason (the original hymn, with notes)
Babe in Bethlehem’s Manger Laid, The - Version 1 - O. Hardwig
Babe of Bethlehem, The - Version 1 - Bramley and Stainer (Alternate Title: Babe in Bethlehem's Manger Laid, The)
Babe of Bethlehem, The - Version 2 - Southern United States (Alternate Title: Ye Nations All)
The Babe of Bethlehem (The baby in Bethlehem's manger laid)
Baby Of Bethlehem, The (Words and Music by Ralph Merrifield, copyright 2002, used with permission; for more Merrifield carols, please visit New Hope Music)
Baby What You Goin’ To Be? (Written by Natalie Sleeth, copyright 1972)
Baby Zulma's Christmas Carol (First line: A lighter scarf of richer fold)
Baby’s First Christmas (Words and Music by Stephan Charles and Van Roberts, copyright 1956)
The Bagpipe Carol (First Line: This is a tedious road we're in)
Bark, The Christmas Puppy Sings (Authorship Unknown, these and other canine holiday songs can be found at Happy Howlidays! from the Canine Clowns)
Be Glad, Lordings, Be Ye More Or Less (Puer nobis natus est) - Rickert
Be Merry (Burden: Be merry, be merry, I pray you, be merry every one.)
Be Merry, Be Merry (Burden: Be merry, be merry, be merry I pray you everyone.)
Be merry all that be present (First Line: Out of the East a star shone bright)
Be Merry All, Be Merry All (First 2 Lines: Be merry all, be merry all | With holly dress the festive hall)
Be Merry, Christian Men, And Sing (Alternate Title: Happy Christmas Morning)
Be Present, Ye Faithful (Neale, Alt. Chope)
Be Still, My Blessed Babe (Sandys)
Beautiful Star of Bethlehem (A. L. Phipps, copyright 1966; some sources give authorship to Adger McDavid Pace, 1940)
Because Its Christmas ("For All The Children;" Bruce Sussman, Jack Feldman and Barry Manilow, copyright 1986)
Behold That Star (An Original Jubilee Carol by Thomas Washington Talley, Early 20th Century)
Behold the Bridegroom Cometh - Moultrie
Behold the Godhead's Triune Blaze (Title: Christo incarnato; Latin: En Trinitatis speculum)
Bell Carol, The ("Carol Of The Bells" Notes Only; Words and Music by Peter J. Wilhousky, copyright 1936)
Bells of Christmas, The (German Lyrics: Det Kimmer nu til Julesfest; First line: "The bells of Christmas chime once more"; Compare: The Happy Christmas Comes Once More and The Christmas Chimes So Bold and Blest)
Bells of St. Mary, The (Douglas Furger & A. Emmett Adams, copyright)
Bells Ring In Our Christmas Fest, The (Words: Det Kimer Nu til Julefest, Nikolai Frederick Severin Grundtvig)
Bells Will Be Ringing (Alternate Title: Please Come Home For Christmas, Jon Bon Jovi, copyright 1994)
Benedicamus Domino (Alternate Title: What Time I Kept My Sheep In Fold)
Bethlehem (First Line: In that poor stable)
Bethlehem (From the French "Dans cette etable," translated from Fléchier by the Rev. John O'Connor)
Bethlehem Land (Alternate Title: Fair The Night in Bethlehem Land)
Bethlehem Shepherd-Boy's Tale, The (Alternate Title: So Happy All The Day)
Bethlehem, of Noblest Cities (Edward Caswell)
Birthday Carol (Words by Colin Gibson, copyright 1996; Music by Tania Atkinson, copyright 1995; link opens at an external site, The Practical Dreamers Drop-In Centre)
The Bitter Withy - Rickert, Version 1 (First Line: As it fell out on a holy day; compare The Holy Well)
The Bitter Withy - Sharp, Version 2
The Black Decree - Version 1 - Bramley and Stainer, ca. 1878, with Notes. For the Feast of the Holy Infants. (Alternate Title: Let Christians All With One Accord Rejoice)
The Black Decree - Version 2 - Walters, A Good Christmas Box, 1847. For the Feast of the Holy Infants.
The Black Decree - Version 3 - Chope, 1894. 6 verses, with chorus. For Epiphany.
The Black Decree - Version 4 - Rodda, 1870. 3 verses, with chorus; no music. For Christmas.
The Black Decree - Version 5 - Broadside Harding B 16(341a), ca. 1820-1830s. For the Feast of the Holy Infants. 18 Verses.
The Black Decree - Version 6 - Broadside Douce adds. 137(31), between 1821 and 1827. For the Feast of the Holy Infants. 20 Verses.
The Black Decree - Version 7 - Broadside Harding B 7(58), between 1813 and 1838, and Broadside Harding B 7(78), between 1859 and 1899. For Christmas. Five verses, no chorus.
The Black Decree - Version 8 - A Shropshire Version.
Blessed be that lady bright (Rickert; First Line: God's Son is born, His mother is a maid)
Blessed Be That Lady Bright (Chambers and Sidgwick; First Line: Goddes sonne is borne ; His moder is a maid)
Blessed Be That Maid Marie (Modern Equivalent of Blyssid Be Yt Mayde Mary)
Blessed Dawn of Christmas Day, The (Words and Music by Harry Connick, Jr., copyright 1993)
Blessed Night, When First That-Hark, What Music Fills the Sky-Medley
Blest Be The King Whose Coming (Music only; lyrics are copyright; words: Frederico J. Pagura (1923-); translation by Fred Pratt Green (1903-); #74, The Hymnal 1982)
Blue Christmas (Words & Music by Billy Hayes and Jay W. Johnson, copyright 1948)
Blyssid Be Yt Mayde Mary (Modern Title: Blessed Be That Maid Marie, Middle English Carol, Eya Jhc Hodie Natus Est De Virgine)
The Boare Is Dead (Middle English from Sandys, 1833)
The Boar Is Dead (Modern from Husk, 1868)
The Boar's Head In Hand Bear I (William Chappell, 1859, with music)
The Boar’s Head In Hand Bring I (Later Version by Husk) (Middle English from Sandys: The Bores Heed In Hand Bring I)
The Boar's Head In Hand Bring I (Sylvester, 1861)
Bohemian Carol (First Line: "What mean this omen so strangely appearing?")
Bores heed in hande bring I, The (Middle English; retyped in Old Blackletter; the modern equivalent is The Boar’s Head Carol)
The bores heed in hande bring I. Wynkyn de Worde, 1521.
The Boris Hed In Hondis I Brynge. Richard Hill's "Common-place Book," early 16th Century.
The Boris Hed In Hondes I Brynge - Balliol MS 354 (Greene, A Selection of English Carols, 1962)
Born In Bethlehem A Stranger, Alan Gaunt (born 1935) © 1999 Stainer & Bell Ltd.
Born is the Light of the World (Link opens in a new window at Sally DeFord Music)
Born To Die (Lyrics by Gregory Kelly, copyright 1996, performed by Hezekiah Walker; it is found on the 1996 CD "The Real Meaning of Christmas"; link opens in a new window at Amazon.com)
Born to Wear a Crown (Link opens in a new window at Sally DeFord Music)
Born Today Is The Child Divine (French: Il Est Ne, Le Divin Enfant)
Borning Day, The (Notes Only; Words and Music by Fred Hellerman and Fran Minkoff, copyright 1963)
The Bores Hede In Hondes I Bringe (Chambers and Sidgwick)
Bores heed in hande bring I, The (Middle English; retyped in Old Blackletter; the modern equivalent is The Boar’s Head Carol)
The Borys Hede That We Bryng Here (Middle English-Sandys; Also known as The Boar's Head)
Boys' Carol, The (Personent hodie from Piae Cantiones,
Boy's Dream, The (Alternate Title: Last Night As I Was Laid And Sleep)
Bread of Salvation - Words by Rev. Vince Uher, copyright 2002
Breath of Heaven (Mary's Song) (Words and Music by Chris Eaton and Amy Grant, copyright 1992; From Home For Christmas, by Amy Grant). Link opens in a new window at Amazon.com.
Break Forth, O Pure Celestial Light, Fred Pratt Green (1903-2000), verse 1 translated from Johann Rist (1607-1667) Brich an, O schönes Morgenlicht, verses 2 & 3 based on 17th Century German and John Troutbeck (1832-1899) © 1989 Stainer & Bell Ltd.
Bride of Christ on High ("Admonitory Address To A Virgin," Gregory Nazainzen)
Bright And Glorious Is The Sky (Translation of "Dejlig Er Den Himmel Blaa")
Bright Angel Hosts Are Heard On High ("Cornish Carol," from Hutchins, 1916; based on the French: Les Anges dans nos Campagnes)
Bright Builder of the Heavenly Poles (Shipley)
Bright December Moon Is Beaming (Dutch Traditional Sinterklaas Song: Zie de maan schijnt door de bomen)
Bright, Bright the Holly Berries (Alfred Burt, copyright 1954; page opens in new window at the Alfred Burt Carols web site)
Bring A Torch, Jeanette, Isabella (English translation of the French, Un flambeau, Jeannette, Isabelle)
Bring in Your New World (Christmas) - Shirley Erena Murray (opens in a new window at an exterior site)
Bring Your Torches, Jeanette, Isabella - Version 2 (English translation of the French, Un flambeau, Jeannette, Isabelle)
Bring Us Home Good Ale, Sir (Ritson, 1790)
Bring Us In Good Ale, And Bring Us In Good Ale (Chambers and Sidgwick, 1907)
Bring Us In Good Ale, and bring us in good ale (Rickert, 1917)
Bryne Us In No Browne Bred (Wright, 1847)
Buon Natale (Bob Saffer and Frank Linale, copyright 1959
Burgundian Carol (Translated by Oscar Brand, copyright 1951)
The Burning Babe (First line: As I in hoary winter's night)
By Christmas Day (Howard Scott Pearlman, copyright 2001)
By-by, Lullaby (First line: In a dream late as I lay)
C-H-R-I-S-M-A-S (Words: Jenny Lou Carson, Music: Eddy Arnold; copyright 1949)
Calypso Carol (Written by Michael Perry; believed to be under copyright)
Candlelight Carol (Words and Music John Rutter, copyright 1984)
Can I Not Sing But Hoy (Rickert)
Can I Not Sing But 'Hoy' (Chambers and Sidgwick)
Cantique de Noël; see: Minuit Chrétiens
Caput apri refero (The boris hed in hondes I brynge)
Carol For A Hard Winter (Words and Music: Colin Gibson, copyright 1998; link opens at an external site, The Practical Dreamers Drop-In Centre)
Carol for Christmas Day (Alternate Title: All This Night Bright Angels Sing)
Carol for Christmas Eve (Alternate Titles: Listen, Lordings, Unto Me in Bramley and Stainer, and Listen, Lordlings, Unto Me in Hutchins; Compare Version 2: Listen, Lordings, Unto Me)
Carol for Christmas Eve (Alternate Title: The Lord at First Had Adam Made - Version 1, Bramley and Stainer))
Carol for Christmas Eve (Alternate Title: The Lord at First Had Adam Make - Version 2, "Traditional")
Carol For New Years Day (Alternate Title: The Old Year Now Away Is Fled)
Carol For New Year's Eve (Bramley and Stainer; Alternate Title: The Old Year Now Away Is Fled)
Carol for the Poor (Be merry all, be merry all)
Carol of the Bagpipers (Baker Translation of Canzone D'l Zampognari)
Carol of the Bagpipers (Simon Translation of Canzone D'l Zampognari, copyright 1973)
Carol of the Bells (Carol of the Toys – Humor)
Carol of the Bells - Version 1 (Hark! How the bells, sweet silver bells - Words and Music by Peter J. Wilhousky, 1936, Note Only)
Carol of the Bells - Version 2 (Hark! To the Bells. Hark! To the Bells - Lyrics: Anonymous, 1972, Music by Peter J. Wilhousky, 1936)
Carol of the Bells - Version 3 (Ring, Christmas Bells; Ukrainian Carol - Words: Minna Louise Hohman, 1947, Music by Peter J. Wilhousky, 1936)
Carol of the Birds (Traditional Catalonian Carol; "Upon this holy night...")
Carol of the Birds (Alternate Title: Whence Comes This Rush of Wings)
The Carol of the Birds, Words by John Wheeler, Music by William G. James. Copyright 1948. Link opens in a new window at an external site. Copyright 1948. Link opens in a new window at an external site. From "Five Australian Carols; First Set." The pair also collaborated on "Five Australian Carols; Second Set" (1954) and "Five Australian Carols; Third Set" (1961).
Carol of the Flowers (Alternate Title: Come With Us Sweet Flowers)
Carol of the Mother (Wilha Hutson and Alfred Burt, copyright 1954; page opens in new window at the Alfred Burt Carols web site)
Carol Our Christmas (Christmas) - Shirley Erena Murray (opens in a new window at an exterior site); Music by Colin Gibson.
Carol, Sweetly Carol - Version 1 by Fanny Crosby
Carol, Sweetly Carol - Version 2, Anonymous
Carolina Christmas (Austin Rudy, copyright 1994; link opens at the Austin Rudy web site)
Caroling, Caroling (Wilha Hutson and Alfred Burt, copyright 1954; page opens in new window at the Alfred Burt Carols web site)
Carols Sing (Words: Martha Puckett and Paul Puckett, 1998; Music: Michael W. Smith, 1998; link opens at the website of Michael W. Smith)
Cast Away The Olden | Psallimus cantantes
Célébrons la Naissance (French, from William Sandys, 1833)
Chariots - John Kirkpatrick (©1995; link opens in a new page at an external site)
Chelsea Morning (copyright Joni Mitchell)
See generally: The Cherry Tree Carol - Notes
The Cherry Tree - Version 1 - Sharp
The Cherry Tree - Version 2 - Sharp
The Cherry Tree Carol, The – Parts 1 & 2 (Bramley & Stainer)
The Cherry-tree Carol - Dunstan - Parts 1 & 2
The Cherry Tree Carol - Rickert (Parts 1, 2, & 3, following Bullen, 1885)
The Cherry Tree Carol - R. R. Terry (Parts 1, 2, & 3)
Cherry Tree Carol, The – Part 2, Version 1 ("Joseph and the Angel" or "As Joseph Was a Walking")
Cherry Tree Carol, The -- Part 2, Version 5 (Hutchins)
Cherry Tree Carol, The – Part 3, Version 1 ("Mary and Jesus" or "Mary’s Question")
Fitz-Ralph's Cherry Tree Carol (Parts 1 and 3) beginning "Joseph was a old man, And an old man was he," in The Guardian, 1871.
Chester Carol (Translation of Lully, Lully, Lu or Qui creavit coelum)
Child Divine (Alternate Title: List! Afar! What Angel Voices)
The Child In Bethlehem Is Born, Hail O Jerusalem, the morn! - Dr. A. R. Thompson (Translation of Puer Natus in Bethlehem)
Child In The Manger - McDonald
Child In The Manger - Woodward
The Child Is Born In Bethlehem (Translation of Puer Natus in Bethlehem)
Child Jesus (Translation of the Danish Barn Jesus)
Child Jesus - Wendte
Child Jesus Comes To Earth - Version 2
Child Jesus In The Garden, The (Bramley and Stainer; also an arrangement from Charles L. Hutchins)
Child of Christmas Story (Christmas) - Shirley Erena Murray (opens in a new window at an exterior site)
Child of Joy and Peace (Christmas) - Shirley Erena Murray (opens in a new window at an exterior site)
Child of Mine (Copyright 1998 by Dianna Robin Dennis; All Rights Reserved; Reproduced With Permission)
Child of the Stable's Secret Birth (No music; Words by Timothy Dudley-Smith (1926-) are copyright; Hymn #43, The New English Hymnal, 1986)
Child, When Herod Wakes, Brian Wren (born 1936) © 1993 Stainer & Bell Ltd.
Child's Carol (First line: Naked boy, brown boy)
Child's Christmas Carol (First line: Christ used to be like you and me)
Children, Go Where I Send Thee (Alternate Title: One For The Little Bitty Baby)
Children, Run Joyfully (Words and Music: Bob Dufford, S.J., copyright 1977)
Chipmunk Song, The (Christmas Don’t Be Late) (Words and Music by Ross Bagdasarian, copyright 1958)
Choirs of Angels, Tell Abroad (Timothy Dudley-Smith, copyright 1996; link opens at David Lee's Service Music)
Chrissy, the Christmas Mouse (Words and Music: Louis S. Filardi (1938-), copyright 1992)
The Christ Child Lay On Mary's Lap - G. K. Chesterton
The Christ-Child Lay On Mary's Lap (Title: The World's Desire)
Christ in Stranger’s Guise (Alfred Burt, copyright 1954; page opens in new window at Alfred Burt Carols)
Christ Is Born (First Line: It Is He / Christ Who Is Born Today; Copyright: Ray Charles and Domentico Bartolucci)
Christ Is Born In Bethlehem (an adaptation of "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing")
Christ Is Born This Evening (Poland - Gdy Sie Chrystus Rodzi; compare On the Night When Jesus Came)
The Christ Is Coming (opens in a new window at An Online Christmas Songbook)
Christ Is Coming, Christ Has Come, Fred Kaan (born 1929) © 1975 Stainer & Bell Ltd.
Christ the Messiah (Words: Michael W. Smith, Deborah D. Smith, and Elizabeth L. Jones; Music: Michael W. Smith; 1989; link opens at the website of Michael W. Smith)
Christ Was Born on Christmas Day – Version 1 by John Mason Neale; Original Lyrics: Resonet In Laudibus
Christ Was Born on Christmas Day – Version 2 by Elizabeth Poston, The Penguin Book of Christmas Carols, copyright 1965
Christ Was Born On Christmas Night (Words by Bishop C. W. Stubbs, Music by Sir Thomas Wardle and T. Tertius Noble)
Christ, Hath Christ's Mother (Alternate Title: Hominum Laudes)
Christ, Upon the Mountain Peak (Lyrics by Brian A. Wren, copyright 1977)
Christemas Hath Made An End (Alternate Title: Christmas Hath Made An End)
Christians, Awake, Salute The Happy Morn - Version 1
Christmas (Lori Carson, copyright 1995; First line: Hope you're not disappointed)
Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) (Phil Spector, Ellie Greenwich, Jeff Barry, copyright 1963)
Christmas ("Johann, arise, arise!")
Christmas - The Temple (George Herbert; First line: All after pleasures as I rode one day)
Christmas After War (First line: Shall misery make mirth)
Christmas Ain't Christmas (Authorship unknown; Performed by The O'Jays)
Christmas Alphabet (Buddy Kaye and Jules Loman, copyright 1954)
The Christmas Angels (First line: Again, as of old, the shadows fold, and the midnight sky is clear and cold)
Christmas At Ground Zero ("Weird Al" Yankovic, copyright)
Christmas At Home (Words and Music by Rita MacNeil, copyright 1986; link opens at Rita MacNeil's Home Page)
Christmas Auld Lang Syne (Mann Curtis and Frank Military, copyright 1958)
The Christmas Ball (First line: Scintillant stars in the sky's blue height)
Christmas Bells (1879, First Line: Oh, Christmas bells, your sweetest strain)
Christmas Bells (Poem by Longfellow; First Line: I heard the bells on Christmas Day)
Christmas Bells (Alternate Title: I Heard A Bell Ring Far Away)
Christmas Bells (Alternate Title: I Heard The Church Bells Ringing)
Christmas Bells (First Line: Up in the old mossy tower; Compare: Up In The Old Mossy Tower)
Christmas Can't Be Very Far Away (Words and Music by Roger Cook and Wayne Jackson, 1998; From A Christmas To Remember, Amy Grant; link open in a new window at the website of Amy Grant)
Christmas Carol (Words and Music: Mike Joncas, 1979, copyright; First Line: Stars flung like diamonds...)
Christmas Celebration (Alternate Title: Now To God On High Be Glory)
Christmas Chimes, Sweet Christmas Chimes; Words by Fanny Crosby, 1877, and Music by Henry Tucker
Christmas Chimes (First Line: Ah! Those Merry Christmas Chimes); Words by Mary A. McKee and Music by Pemberton Pierce
Christmas Chimes So Bold and Blest, The (Compare: The Bells of Christmas and The Happy Christmas Comes Once More)
Christmas Comes Again (First Line: Let us carols sing; | Christmas comes again!
Christmas Comes Again (First Line: Christmas comes again! | And the merry, merry Church bells ring)
Christmas Comes Anew (Ehret and Evans, The International Book of Christmas Carols, copyright 1963; French Lyrics: Noel Nouvelet)
Christmas Cometh Caroling (Alfred Burt, copyright 1954; page opens in new window at the Alfred Burt Carols web site)
Christmas Conga (Words and Music by Cyndi Lauper and Jan Pulsford, copyright 1998; from the CD Merry Christmas Have A Nice Life; page opens in new window at the Cyndi Lauper web site)
Christmas Day (Alternate Title: Wake All Music’s Magic Pow’rs) (Bramley & Stainer)
Christmas Day (Words: Hal David, 1968, Music: Burt Bacharach, 1968; From the Broadway musical Promises, Promises; First Line: "Christmas Day is here and so are we")
Christmas Day (Brian Wilson, copyright 1964)
Christmas Day - Wither (First Line: "As on the night before this happy morn")
Christmas Day (Words: George Leon Pike, Sr.; Copyright 1996 by Betty M. Pike; Link opens in new window at Jesus Christ's Eternal Kingdom of Abundant Life)
Christmas Day Christ, We Have Claimed You (Christmas) - Shirley Erena Murray (opens in a new window at an exterior site)
Christmas Day Has Come (Alternate Title: The Irish Carol)
Christmas Dinner (Paul Stookey, copyright)
Christmas Dragnet (Stan Freberg & Daws Butler, copyright)
Christmas Dreaming (Lester Lee and Irving Gordon, copyright 1947)
Christmas Epithalamium (First Line: Now comes the ordered prime)
Christmas Eve (First Line: It was the death-time of the year)
Christmas Eve In My Home Town (Stan Zabka and Don Upton, copyright 1951)
A Christmas Folk-Song (First line: The little Jesus came to town)
Christmas For Cowboys (Words and Music by Steve Weisberg, copyright 1975)
Christmas Has Meaning (Words and Music by Rita MacNeil, copyright 1988; link opens at Rita MacNeil's Home Page)
Christmas Hath Made An End (Alternate Title: Christemas Hath Made An End)
Christmas Hymn ("My Sheep Were Grazing") (Minna Louise Holman, copyright 1947)
Christmas Hymn (Words by Amy Grant, Music by Michael W. Smith, copyright 1983); links open in a new window at the websites of Amy Grant and Michael W. Smith, respectively)
Christmas In Heaven (Monte Python, copyright 1989)
Christmas In Killarney (Words and Music by John Redmond, James Cavanaugh and Frank Weldon, copyright 1950)
Christmas In The Caribbean (Words & music: Jimmy Buffett, Michael Utley, Will Jennings, et al., copyright 1985)
Christmas in the City (aldana264, date unknown)
Christmas In The Trenches (John McCutcheon, Copyright 1984)
Christmas In Vegas (Marc Almond, Date Unknown)
Christmas Is (Words by Spence Maxwell and Music by Percy Faith, 1966)
Christmas Is A Coming (You merry, merry souls)
Christmas is A-Comin' ("May God Bless You;" Words and Music by Frank Luther, 1953)
Christmas Is Coming (English Traditional - Version 1)
Christmas Is Coming (English Traditional - Version 2)
Christmas Is My Name (Alternate Title: Christmas's Lamentation)
Christmas Lights Up Dark December, Elizabeth Cosnett (born 1936) © 2000 Stainer & Bell Ltd.
Christmas List For Grownups (Music by David Foster, Lyric by Linda Thompson Foster, Date Unknown)
Christmas Love (Austin Rudy, copyright 1994; link opens to Rudy's web site)
Christmas Lullaby (John Brimhall, copyright 1961)
Christmas Lullaby (Words and Music by Amy Grant and Chris Eaton, copyright 1999; From A Christmas To Remember, Amy Grant); link opens in a new window at the website of Amy Grant)
Christmas Lullaby (Words: Peggy Lee, Music: Cy Coleman, copyright 1967)
Christmas Memories (Kevin Evans, Date Unknown)
Christmas Message, The (Alternate Title: A Message From Our Father)
Christmas Morning (Alternate Title: In The Early Morning, Early)
Christmas Mummers' Carol ("Oh, Righteous Joseph wedded was")
Christmas Mummers' Carol 2 ("It was righteous Joseph wedded was")
Christmas Mummers' Carol 3 ("Righteous Joseph wedded was")
Christmas Mummers' Carol II ("God bless the master of this house")
Christmas Night ("On Christmas night true Christians sing;" A Good Christmas Box, 1847)
Christmas On Riverside Drive (August Darnell, copyright 1979)
The Christmas Radio (Mary P. Denny, 20th Century)
Christmas Round (Words and Music by Ralph Merrifield, copyright 2000, used with permission; for more Merrifield carols, please visit New Hope Music)
Christmas Song (Alternate Title: Once Again O Blessed Time) (Bramley and Stainer)
Christmas Song (Words and Music: Bruce Cockburn, 25 December 1973, Cumberland, Ontario, Canada. From his CD, Salt, Sun and Time (1974); link opens at external site)
Christmas Song, The (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire) (Torme and Wells, July 1945; recorded by Nat Cole, 1946) Notes Only.
Christmas Song by Southgate & Mora (First Line: "When gentle night bedews the earth")
Christmas Song, The (Humor, "Test Tubes Bubbling")
Christmas Song, The (Spammers Roasting on an Open Fire – Humor by Patricia Shaffer)
Christmas Song, The (The Bill Gates Song/Netscape Roasting on an Open Fire – Humor)
Christmas Song, The (Web Advice – Humor by R. L. Gunn)
Christmas Story, The (Alternate Title: Long, Long Ago, The Angel Throng)
Christmas Through Your Eyes (Gloria Estefan and Diane Warren, Date Unknown)
Christmastime (Words and Music: Michael W. Smith and Joanna Carlson, 1998; link opens at the website of Michael W. Smith)
Christmas Time (Written by Bryan Adams & Jim Vallance, circa 1985; "We waited all through the year...")
Christmas Time (Words: George Leon Pike, Sr.; Copyright 1977 by Betty M. Pike; Link opens in new window at Jesus Christ's Eternal Kingdom of Abundant Life)
Christmas Time (Is Here Again) (The Beatles, copyright 1967)
Christmas Time (John Anderson and Lionel Delmore, copyright 1994)
Christmas Time Is Coming Round (Humor by Howard Ryan)
Christmas Time Is Here (From "A Charlie Brown Christmas," Vince Guaraldi, copyright 1965)
Christmas Time of Year (Words and Music by Joe Cocuzzo and Torrie Zito, copyright 1984)
Christmas Time's A-Comin (Words and Music: Benjamin "Tex" Logan, copyright 1951; performed by Bill Monroe, Emmylou Harris, Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton, Diamond Rio, Sammy Kershaw and others. Tex played fiddle with Bill Monroe, and was also a member of the "Confederate Mountaineers" bluegrass group, and others. There is a brief biography and photograph at John Byrne Cooke Photography.)
The Christmas Tree (First Line: The Christmas tree is sparkling with light)
The Christmas Tree (First Line: Who comes this way so blithe and gay?)
Christmas Tree Song, The (As performed by Dream Street, copyright; first line: Is this not a Christmas tree?)
Christmas Waltz, The (Words by Sammy Cahn, Music by Jule Styne, copyright 1954)
Christmas Will Come, Sydney Carter (1915-2004) © 1982 Stainer & Bell Ltd.
Christmas Without You (Kenny Rodgers and Dolly Parton, copyright 1984)
Christo Paremus Cantica (First Line: When Crist was born of Mary free)
Christus Natus Est – The Broadside ("Christ Is Born!")
Church, In Advent, From Of Old, The, Fred Pratt Green (1903-2000) © 1982 Stainer & Bell Ltd.
Clear Shone The Fair White Star Which Led - The Epiphany
Coleman's Carol (Good Christian people pray attend)
Come All You Worthy Gentlemen (Alternate Title: Somerset Carol)
Come And Be Surprised, All Nations, Fred Kaan (born 1929) © 1968 Stainer & Bell Ltd. (Advent)
Come And Be Surprised, All Nations, Fred Kaan (born 1929) © 1968 Stainer & Bell Ltd. (Christmas)
Come Buy My Nice Fresh Ivy (Irish Traditional)
Come Forth, Ye Wond'ring Children All (Alternate Title: Legends Of The Infancy)
Come In, Dear Angels (Alfred Whitehead, copyright 1938)
Come Now Where We Least Expect You (Marnie Barrell, copyright 1996)
Come Now With Awe (Timothy Dudley-Smith, copyright 1975; link opens at David Lee's Service Music)
Come Now, Lord Jesus (Advent, Christmas) - Shirley Erena Murray (opens in a new window at an exterior site)
Come On, Ring Those Bells (Words and Music: Andrew Culverwell, Copyright 1976; Introduced by Evie Tornquist Karlsson; Out of print but available from Manna Music, pcmannamusic AT oregoncoast DOTcom)
Come To The Manger (Words and music by Adrian V. Miller, copyright, used with permission; for more Miller carols, please visit New Hope Music)
Come To The Manger (Peter McCann and Orrin Hatch, 1998)
Come To The Manger (Words: Anonymous; Music: Traditional)
Come To The Manger (Words: Unknown; Recorded by The Augustana Choir)
Come to This Christmas Singing! (Christmas) - Shirley Erena Murray (opens in a new window at an exterior site)
Come To Us Wisdom From On High, Alan Luff (born 1928) translated from Veni Emmanuel © Stainer & Bell Ltd.
Come With Torches, Jeanette, Isabella! (Copy 1992, Hugh Keyte and Andrew Parrott, The New Oxford Book of Carols, Oxford: Oxford University Press); a free translation of Un flambeau, Jeannette, Isabelle
Come Ye Thankful People (Compare: Irish Carol (Alternate Title: Christmas Day Has Come)
Come, Tune Your Heart (Cox's original translation)
Come! Tune Your Heart (from Bramley and Stainer, with music)
Come, All That Are Weary, Alan Gaunt (born 1935) © 1999 Stainer & Bell Ltd.
Come, All Ye Faithful, Join The March Triumphant (from The De Le Salle Hymnal (1913), p. 5, with setting by Lerler.)
Come, All Ye Faithful, Joyfully Triumphant (from Thrupp, 1853)
Come, Dear Children (Wilha Hutson and Alfred Burt, copyright 1954; page opens in new window at the Alfred Burt Carols web site)
Come, Holy Visitor (Advent) - Shirley Erena Murray (opens in a new window at an exterior site)
Come, Let Us Sing (First Line: "Come, let us sing our sweetest voice")
Come, Mad Boys (First Line: Come, mad boys, be glad, boys, for Christmas is here)
Come, Thou Long Expected Jesus (Alternate Translation:: Come, O Long-Expected Jesus)
Come, Thou Precious Ransom, Come (Similar: Come, O Precious Ransom)
Come, Thou Redeemer Of The Earth (Translation of Veni, Redemptor Gentium)
Come, Thou Savior Of Our Race (Translation of Veni, Redemptor Gentium)
Come With Torches, Jeanette, Isabella! (Copy 1992, Hugh Keyte and Andrew Parrott, The New Oxford Book of Carols, Oxford: Oxford University Press); a free translation of Un flambeau, Jeannette, Isabelle
Come, Ye Lofty (First Line: Come ye lofty, come ye lowly)
Come, Your Hearts and Voices Raising (Translation by Composite of Kommt und laßt uns Christum ehren, Paul Gerhardt, 1667, based on Quem Pastores Laudavere, Latin, 14th Century)
Comfort, Comfort Ye My People - Version 1
Comfort, Comfort Ye My People - Version 2
Conditor alme siderum (There is a Child born of Mary)
Cornish Bells, The (Alternate Title: O Merry Ring The Christmas Bells)
Cornish Wassail I Can Wassel (Wassail Song)
Cornish Wassail II: Carol for the Twelfth Day
Cornish Wassail III (Baring Gould Collection, Version A)
Cornish Wassail III (Baring Gould Collection, Version B)
Cornish Wassail III (Baring Gould Collection, Version C)
Corpus Christi Carol (First Line: Down in yon forest there stands a hall)
Countdown to Christmas Party Time (XTC, 1983)
The Coventry Carol, Sharp (1817)
The Coventry Carol, Bramley and Stainer (1878)
The Coventry Carol, Dearmer and Shaw (1913)
The Coventry Carol, Terry, Two Hundred Folk Carols (1933)
The Coventry Carol (Lulle Lullay), collected by John Jacob Niles (1934)
Cradle Song of the Infant Jesus (First Line: Soft To The Manger Stealing)
Cradled All Lowly (Alternate Titles: Bethlehem and The Shepherd's Nativity Hymn)
Cradled In A Manger, Meanly (Alternate Title: Cradled In A Manger, Meakly)
The Creation of the World (All Christian people pray attend)
Creator of the Starry Height, Thy people's everlasting light - Neale, alt., in Hymns Ancient and Modern (1889)
Creator of the Starry Height, The faithful's everlasting light - Littledale
Creator of the Starry Height, Thy people's everlasting light - Pott
Creator of the Starry Height, Of Faithful Hearts - Neale, alt.
Creator of the Starry Height, Of Hearts Believing - Copeland
Creator of the Stars Above (Husenbeth)
Creator of the Stars Above (Primer, 1706)
Dark Fall The Hours This Winter-Tide ("The Bridegroom Coming at Midnight")
The Dear Old Christmas Story - J. R. Murray
December Child (Words and Music by Cyndi Lauper and Jan Pulsford, copyright 1998; from the CD Merry Christmas Have A Nice Life; page opens in new window at the Cyndi Lauper web site)
Deck The Hall (Alternate Title: Deck The Halls) - With Notes
Deck The Hall – Latin Translation: Aquafolia Ornatis, Translated by Stanford Miller
Deck The Hall (Deck the Hall – Politically Correct Version – Humor)
Deck The Hall (Deck the Labs – Humor)
Deck The Hall (Fill the Bowls – Humor)
Deck The Hall (Walt Kelly's Pogo; opens at an external site in a new window)
Deck The Hall (Wrap Your Gift – Humor)
Deck The Hall (Wreck the Malls – Humor from Bob Rivers, Bob Rivers’ Twisted Tunes)
Deep In Darkness We Begin, Version 1, Andrew Pratt © 2002 Stainer & Bell Ltd.
Deep In Darkness We Begin, Version 2, Andrew Pratt © 2002 Stainer & Bell Ltd. Administered in the USA by Hope Publishing
Dethe began because of syn (Middle English; retyped in Old Blackletter)
Dives and Lazarus - Bramley and Stainer, With Notes and Sheet Music
Do Shepherds Stand Tonight, Geoffrey Ainger (born 1925) © 1969 Stainer & Bell Ltd.
Do They Know Its Christmas? (Words and Music: M. Ure & B. Geldof, copyright 1984)
Do You Hear What I Hear? (Words and Music: Noel Regney and Gloria Shayne, copyright 1962)
Does He Remember (Words and Music by Janice Kapp Perry)
Donkey, Come And Bow, Alan Gaunt (born 1935) © 1996 Stainer & Bell Ltd.
Don't Save It All For Christmas Day (Words & Music: Celine Dion, Ric Wake, Peter Zizzo, Copyright 1998; Performed by Celine Dion)
Donde Esta Santa Claus (Rod Parker, Alvin G. Greiner & George Scheck, copyright 1958)
Draw Near, All Ye Faithful (R. C. Singleton)
Draw Nigh, Draw Nigh, Emmanuel (Neale, Version 1)
Draw Nigh, Draw Nigh, Emmanuel (Neale, Version 2)
Dream a Dream (Carol of Dreams) (Christmas Eve, Christmas) - Shirley Erena Murray (opens in a new window at an exterior site)
Duérmete, Niño lindo (O Sleep Now, Holy Baby,
Hispanic folk song:
translation John Donald Robb, copyright 1954; carol #113
The
Hymnal 1982)
Each Year We Sing, Fred Kaan (born 1929) © 1968 Stainer & Bell Ltd.
Early Christmas Morning (Words and Music by Cyndi Lauper and Jan Pulsford, copyright 1998; from the CD Merry Christmas Have A Nice Life; page opens in new window at the Cyndi Lauper web site)
Early On One Christmas Morn, Words and Music by Bruce Cockburn, from his CD Christmas (copyright 1993); link opens in external site
Ecce Ancilla Domini (Seid tho virgin withouten vice)
Emmanuel (Words and Music by Michael W. Smith, 1983; From A Christmas Album, Amy Grant; links open in a new window at the websites of Amy Grant and Michael W. Smith, respectively)
Emmanuel, God With Us (Alternate Title: Joy Fills Our Innermost Heart Today)
Emmanuel, God With Us (Words and Music by Amy Grant, Chris Eaton and Robert Marshall, copyright 1992; From Home For Christmas, Amy Grant; link open in a new window at the website of Amy Grant)
Establish, Lord, Your Kingdom, Fred Kaan (born 1929) translated from the Swedish of Anders Frostenson (fl. 1976) English translation © 1976 Stainer & Bell Ltd.
Eternity! Eternity! - Version 1 (Hopkins, plus music)
Eternity! Eternity! - Version 3 (Winkworth)
Exult, O Morning Stars Aflame (Lyrics by Timothy Dudley-Smith (1926-) are copyright)
Exultation (First Line: Come away to the skies, my beloved)
Exulting, Triumphing, Come From Every Nation (Anonymous, No Date)
Eya ! Jesus Hodie (Blessed be that maid Mary)
Fair The Night in Bethlehem Land (Alternate Title: Bethlehem Land)
Faithful Vigil Ended (Lyrics by Timothy Dudley-Smith (1926-); published 1969, copyright 1988; see #44 in The New English Hymnal )
The Falcon Carol (Earliest version of the Corpus Christi carol)
Family Christmas (Austin Rudy, 1994; links opens in new window at the Austin Rudy website)
Feels Like Christmas (Written by Cyndi Lauper, Rob Hyman, Eric Bazilian, copyright 1993; from the CD Merry Christmas Have A Nice Life; page opens in new window at the Cyndi Lauper web site)
Feliz Navidad (Jose Feliciano, copyright 1970)
Feliz Navidad (Donde Esta Papa – Humor)
Feliz Navidad (Police Stop My Car - Humor by Bob Rivers, Bob Rivers’ Twisted Tunes)
The Ferste Joye As I Zu Telle (Joyis Fyve) (Sandys, 1833)
The Ferste Joye, As I 3ou Telle (Wright, 1856)
The Fir-tree ("O Christmas Tree")
First Christmas (Words and Music: Stanley Allison Rogers, copyright 1979; Alternate Title: First Christmas Away From Home)
First Christmas in Love (Words and Music by Janice Kapp Perry)
The First Christmas Night, The (Alternate Title: I Should Like To Have Heard)
The First Christmas Song (Beautiful song of Christmas! | Sung in the long ago)
The First Cradle Song (Swing softly, bells, on Christmas morn)
Fyfe's Noel ("The First Noel An Angel Sung")
The Fyrst day of yole have we in mynd, The (Middle English)
The First Day Of Yule (Modern Version)
The First Good Joy That Mary Had, The (Alternate Title: The First Good Joy Our Mary Had)
The First Nowell - Version 1 (Alternate Title: The First Noel)
The First Nowell - Version 2 (Alternate Title: The First Noel)
The First Nowel - Version 3 (Alternative Title: The First Noel)
The First Noel An Angel Sung ('Fyfe's Noel' from Terry)
The First Nowell (The First Novell - Humor)
First Thing Christmas Morning, The (Words and music By Steven Kapp Perry, copyright)
First Snowfall (Words by Paul Francis Webster; Music by Sonny Burke, Copyright 1953)
The Five Joys (First Line: I may sing of a may)
The Five Joys of the Virgin (First Line: Seinte Marie, levedi brist)
Flaming Seraphs (First Line: Hark! the music of the Cherubs)
Flight Into Egypt - Words by Rev. Vince Uher, copyright 1997
Fling Wide the Door (Notes Only; Words: Georg Weissel, Macht hoch die Tuer ; translation by Gracia Grindal, copyright 1987)
For Christmas Day (First Line: Rejoice, rejoice, with heart and voice)
For Unto Us a Child Is Born (from Messiah by Georg Frederic Handel)
Friendly Beasts, The (First Line: Jesus our brother, kind and good)
Friends Now Joyfully Gather (also known as The Mexican Carol; compare This Is The Night)
From Heaven Angel Hosts Did Fly - Translation of
From Heaven Above To Earth I Come – Version 1; translation of Vom Himmel hoch da komm ich her, by Martin Luther
From Heaven Above To Earth I Come – Version 2 (Alternate Title: From Heaven High I Come To You)
From Heaven Above To Earth I Come - Version 3 (Alternate Title: Good News From Heav'n The Angels Bring)
From Heaven Above To Earth I Come - Catherine Winkworth Translation
From Heaven On High I Come To You (Macdonald, Original Hymn, 1867)
From Heaven On High I Come To You (Macdonald, alt., 1876)
From Heav'n on High The Angels Sing ("Susani"; English Translation of the German Vom Himmel hoch, o Engel kommt)
From Heaven Through The Clouds On High (Alternate Title: Song For The New Year)
From Heaven Was Sent An Angel of Light (Weston, 1911)
From Heaven Was Sent An Angel Of Light (Rickert, 1914)
From Highest Heaven Good News I Bring (Russell, 1848)
From Highest Heaven Good News I Bring (Russell, 1851)
From Lands That See The Sun Arise (Latin: A Solis Ortus Cardine)
From Realms of Glory Far Away (Good News We Bring And Peace)
From Silver Gates Of Ecbatoun (The Quest Of The Three Kings)
From Starry Skies Descending (Based on the carol and poem, Tu scendi dalle Stelle)
From The Eastern Mountains (To Von Himmel Hoch)
From the Royal Shepherd's Line | David ex progenie
From Where The Rising Sun Goes Forth - Copeland
From Where The Rising Sun Goes Forth - Copeland, alt.
Frosty The Snow Man (Steve Nelson & Jack Rollins, copyright 1950) Notes
Frosty The Snow Man (Crusty the Spamnmer – Humor)
Fum, Fum, Fum! - Version 1; Veinticinco de diciembre, Catalonian Carol)
Fum, Fum, Fum! - Version 2
Fum, Fum, Fum! - Version 8 (Ruth Heller)
Funky, Funky Christmas (New Kids On The Block)
Gabriel From Heaven-King (Middle English)
Gabriel From Heaven Has Flown (Angelus Emittitur, Rev. J. O'Connor, Trans. in Terry's Two Hundred Folk Carols)
Gabriel From Heaven's King (Angelus Ad Virginem, Gerald Manley Hopkins)
Gabriel To Mary Came (Angelus Ad Virginem, John Macleod Campbell Crum, 1932)
Gabriel To Mary Came (Elizabeth Poston, The Penguin Book of Christmas Carols, copyright 1965)
Gabriel To Mary Came (Angelus Ad Virginem, Pickard-Cambridge)
Gabriel To Mary Went (Angelus Ad Virginem, Rev. J. O'Connor)
Gabriel, That Angel Bright (Weston)
Gabriel, That Angel Bright (Rickert)
Gabriell, That Angell Bry3t (Wright)
Gabriel's Message (Alternate Title: The Angel Gabriel From Heaven Came)
Gabriel's Message Does Away - Version 1
Gallery Carol, The (Alternate Title: Rejoice And Be Merry)
Gates and Doors: A Ballad Of Christmas Eve (First line: There was a gentle hostler)
Gaudete, Quia Vobis (Now, seeing God is born here)
Gee Whiz, It's Christmas (Carla Thomas, copyright)
Gentle Night (Tim Manion, the St. Louis Jesuits, copyright)
Gesu Bambino (Alternate Title: When Blossoms Flower E'er 'Mid The Snow)
Get the hence what doest thou here (Alternate Title: Farewell aduent and haue good day; Middle English; retyped in Old Blackletter)
Gift of Christmas Time, The (Words: George Leon Pike, Sr.; Copyright 1992 by Betty M. Pike; Link opens in new window at Jesus Christ's Eternal Kingdom of Abundant Life)
Give Laud and Praise the Highest Good (Z. Philip Ambrose Translation of Sei Lob und Ehr' dem höchsten Gut, copyright)
Give Love On Christmas Day (copyright)
Give Way, Give Way, Ye Gates, And Win (Middle English)
Giving (Santa's Theme) [Leslie Bricusse and Henry Mancini, copyright 1985]
Glad Angel Voices (First Line: On dewy plain where shepherds were abiding)
Glad Tidings (Shalom Chaverim, English Lyrics: Bruce Campbell, Copyright 1951)
Glad Tidings (Fanny Crosby, 1873)
Glad tidings (From the French, "Une vaine crainte;" English Translation by K. W. Simpson.)
Gloomy Night Embraced The Place (Title: At the Nativity)
Gloria In Excelsis (Alternate Title: O Blessed Town of Bethlehem)
Gloria Tibi, Domine (A Little Child There Is Yborn)
Gloria Tibi Domine (A litel childe there is ibore)
Glory In Heaven (Gloria ‘n Cielo, Anonymous Lauda, 13 century)
Glory To God, The Angels Said - Anonymous
Glory to God, The Angels Said - From a MS belonging to Joseph Willcox (b.1823), of Coombe Keynes
Glory To Our Lord And King (Words and Music by Adrian Vermeulen-Miller, copyright, used with permission; for more Vermeulen-Miller carols, please visit New Hope Music)
Gloucestershire Wassail - Version 1 (Alternate Title: Wassail! Wassail! All Over The Town)
Gloucestershire Wassail - Version 2
Gloucestershire Wassail - Version 3
Gloucestershire Wassail - Version 4
Gloucestershire Wassail - Version 5 (with refrain)
Go Gabriel (Written by Fred Hammond, Kim Rutherford, and Noel Hall, copyright 1996, performed by Fred Hammond & RFC; it is found on the 1996 CD "The Real Meaning of Christmas"; link opens in a new window at Amazon.com)
Go, Tell It On The Mountain – Version 1
Go, Tell It On The Mountain – Version 2
Go, Tell It On The Mountain – Version 3
God against nature thre wonders haith wrought - Thomas Wright
God Bless The Master Of This House (Sandys, 1833, The Saviour Of All People)
God Bless The Master Of This House (Husk, 1868)
God Came In Jesus, Alan Gaunt (born 1935) © 1991 Stainer & Bell Ltd.
God Cometh, Let The Heart Prepare ("Judgment At The Door")
God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen - from Hutchins, 1916. Words: Dinah Maria Mulock Craik; Music: L. H. Redner
God Rest You Merry Gentlemen – Roxburghe Collection, ca 1700
God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen - from Sandys, 1833
God Rest You Merry Gentlemen - A Good Christmas Book, 1847
God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen (I & II) - Ralph Dunstan, The Cornish Song Book, 1929
God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik from Hutchins, 1916
God Rest You, Noble Gentlemen - Gathered Riches from the older Poets. A.D. 1340-1699 (1865)
God Bless You, Merry Gentlemen - from Sharp, 1911
God Bless You, All Good Christian Men - from Hardwig, 1918
A Political Christmas Carol - William Hone, ca. 1820
Sit You, Merry Gentlemen - The oldest found so far, this version from Cornwall is contained in the Cornish Hutchens manuscript; the original is in the Oxford Bodleian Library, MS Eng. poet. b. 5., ca. 1650.
God Bless Ye Anti-Spammers – Humor
Oh Stop Ye Bustling Shoppers – Humor; also known as Slow Down Ye Frantic Shoppers)
The Restroom Door Said Gentlemen – Humor from Bob Rivers, Bob Rivers’ Twisted Tunes
God Sent His Aungell Gabriell (Middle English: God Sent His Angel Gabriel)
God's Angels In Crowds, Guds engle i flok by N. F. S. Grundtvig (1783-1872) translated by Alan Gaunt (born 1935) English translation © Stainer & Bell Ltd
God's Dear Son Without Beginning (Version 1 - Davies Gilbert)
God’s Dear Son - Version 3 (First Line: God’s dear Son, without beginning) - Bramley & Stainer
God's Dear Son (A Good Christmas Carol)
God's Own Child - Words by Rev. Vince Uher, copyright 1997
God's Words Have Such A Weight, Andrew Pratt © 2002 Stainer & Bell Ltd., administered by Hope Publishing in the USA
Goin' On A Sleighride (Ralph Blane, copyright 1952)
Gold for the King of Kings - Carol for the Midnight Mass of the Nativity
The Golden Carol Of Melchoir, Caspar and Balthazar; First Line: We saw a light shine out a-far
Good Christian Men, Rejoice (Latin, "In Dulci Jubilo"); not the same as the Easter hymn, Good Christian Friends, Rejoice and Sing (Page opens in a new window at Hymnuts)
Good Christian Men, Rejoice (Good Christian Friends, Rejoice)
Good Day Sir Christmas (Terry, A Medieval Christmas Book)
Good Day, You Green and Glittering Tree (English translation of Du grønne glitrende tre, goddag! Johan Krohn)
Good King Wenceslas (Parking Spaces – Humor from Bob Rivers, Bob Rivers’ Twisted Tunes)
Good News From Heav'n The Angels Bring - AT Russell and Winkworth, alt., from Wartburg Hymnal
Good News From Heaven The Angels Sing (A Christmas Carol For Children) (Cento from A. T. Russell and C. Winkworth)
Good News From Heaven The Angels Sing - Winkworth and AT Russell
Good News We Bring And Peace (First Line: From Realms Of Glory Far Away)
Good People All Listen A While (The Dying Mans good Counsel to his Children and Friends)
Good Saint Nich'las (Dutch Traditional: Sinterklaasje kom maar binnen)
The Gossoon And The Gaffer (First Line: God save you kindly gaffer)
The Gouty Carol (First Line: There's many folk | Agait o' pilgrim errand)
Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer (Copyright, Randy Brooks, 1977)
Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer (Grandma Rules – Humor, Copyright ©1997 by Bob Tucker)
Great Angels All Adore Him - Words by Rev. Vince Uher, copyright 1998
Great God of Heaven, The (Alternate Title: The Great God Of Heaven Is Come Down To Earth)
Greatest Gift Of All, The (John Barlow Jarvis, Copyright 1984)
The Greatest Wonder (First line: To spread the azure canopy of Heaven)
Greenwillow Christmas (Frank Loesser, Copyright 1956)
Green Groweth The Holly, So Doth The Ivy (Chambers & Sidgwick)
Grene Growith The Holy (Greene)
Grinch Song, The (Words: Theodor Seuss Geisel, Music: Albert Hague, copyright 1966)
Growing Limbs of God the Son, The (Lyrics copyright, George B. Timms)
Grown-Up Christmas List (Words and Music by David Foster and Linda Thompson Jenner, Copyright 1992)
Guard Him, Joseph (Link opens in a new window at Sally DeFord Music)
Guillô, Pran Ton Tamborin (French, from William Sandys, 1833)
Hail Mary, Full Of Grace, Mother In Virginity (Rickert, with music from from J. A. Fuller Maitland, English Carols of the Fifteenth Century)
Hail Mary, Full of Grace (Terry, Two Hundred Folk Carols, with sheet music)
Hail Mary, Full of Grace (Terry, A Medieval Carol Book, with sheet music)
Hail Mary, Full of Grace (Marnie Barrell, copyright 2001; used with permission)
Hail the King! - Murray (First Line: "Shout aloud oh lovely Zion")
Hail, Blessed Virgin, Full of Heavenly Grace (On The Infancy Of Our Saviour)
Hail, Comly And Clene (Chambers & Sidgwick)
Hail, Undiminished Love, Brian Wren (born 1936) © 1986, 1996 Stainer & Bell Ltd
Hallelujah Chorus (from Messiah by Georg Frederic Handel)
Hanover Winter Song (Richard Hovey and Frederic Field Bullard, 1898)
Happiest Christmas (Words: Myles Rudge, Music: Ted Dicks; Copyright 1970)
Happy Birthday Jesus (Estelle Levitt and Lee Pockriss, copyright 1977)
Happy Christmas Comes Once More, The – Version 1 (Original Lyrics: Det Kimer Nu Til Julefest); Compare: The Bells of Christmas and The Christmas Chimes So Bold and Blest
Happy Christmas Comes Once More, The – Version 2 (Original Lyrics: Det Kimer Nu Til Julefest)
Happy Christmas Morning (Alternate Title: Be Merry, Christian Men, And Sing)
Happy Holiday (Words and music by Irving Berlin, copyright 1941)
Happy Xmas (War is Over) (John Lennon and Yoko Ono, copyright 1971)
Hard Candy Christmas (Carol Hall, copyright 1978)
Hardrock, Coco and Joe (Also known as The Three Little Dwarves;
Words and Music by Stuart Hamblen, copyright 1950)
Hark, Hark What News - Version 1 (Alternate Title: Hark! Hark! What News The Angels Bring)
Hark Hark What News The Angels Bring - Version 2
Hark! Hark What News The Angels Bring! - Version 3 from Pettman
Hark! All Around The Welkin Rings - Version 2
Hark! Hear Ye Not The Angel Song? - Version 1
Hark! Hear Ye Not The Angel Song - Alt. from Hutchins, with notes
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing – (Original Lyrics: Hark, how all the welkin rings)
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing -- (From William Sandys, Christmas Carols Ancient and Modern, 1833)
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (Finals Time – Humor)
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (Hark The Carol Singers Choke - Humor)
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (Hark! The Ninja Turtles Sing! – Humor)
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (Hark! The Rockefellers Sing – Humor)
Hark! What Mean Those Holy Voices? (From Montgomery)
Hark! What Mean Those Holy Voices? (From Pettman)
Hark, The Glad Sound! (Alternate Title: Hark, The Glad Sound! The Savior Comes)
Hark, 'Tis The Watchman's Cry (Alternate Title: Wake, Brethren, Wake!)
Hasten, Ye Faithful, Glad, Joyful, and Holy (J. R. Beste, 15th–16th Century)
Have You Not Heard, Not Heard Our Saviour's Love? (Pickard-Cambridge, with sheet music)
Have You Not Heard of Our Saviour's Love? (A Choice Collection of Christmas Carols, circa 1775)
Have You Not Heard of Our Saviour's Love? (Journal of the Folk Song Society, with sheet music)
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (Words by Ralph Blane, Music by Hugh Martin, copyright 1943; Links open at the Songwriters Hall of Fame)
He Came Among Us at Christmastide (Alternate Title: Long Ago And Far Away)
He Has Come An Infant Stranger (Benediction Hymn and Amen)
He Is Born, Holy Child Divine (French: Il Est Ne, Le Divin Enfant)
He Is Born, The Divine Christ Child, Version 1 (French: Il Est Ne, Le Divin Enfant)
He Is Born, The Divine Christ Child, Version 2 (French: Il Est Ne, Le Divin Enfant)
He Is Born, The Holy Child (French: Il Est Ne, Le Divin Enfant; Translation by George K. Evans, copyright 1963)
He Is Born, The Holy One (French: Il Est Ne, Le Divin Enfant)
He Is Born, The Heav'nly Child (French: Il Est Ne, Le Divin Enfant; Translator Edward Bliss Reed)
He Is The Reason (Written by Fred Hammond, Kim Rutherford, and David Ivey, copyright 1996, performed by Fred Hammond & RFC; it is found on the 1996 CD "The Real Meaning of Christmas"; link opens in a new window at Amazon.com)
He Shall Be Called (Words and Music by Ralph Merrifield, copyright 1999, used with permission)
He Shall Feed His Flock (see notes to Canzone D'l Zampognari)
He Smiles Within His Cradle (German: Ein Kindlein in der wiegen)
He Was A Shepherd, Too (Copyright, Lynne Perry Christofferson)
He Was Here. (Words and Music: Michael McLean (1952-), The Forgotten Carols (Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret Book Co., 1991, rev. 2003). Links open at exterior sites.
He Whom Joyous Shepherds Praised (Translation: Charles Winfred Douglas)
He Whom Shepherds Once Came Praising, Translation by Composite, Lutheran Book of Worship, Hymn #68, copyright 1978
Hearken To Me Both Old And Young (Pollard)
Hearken To Me Both Old And Young (Weston)
Heat Miser Song, The (From the Rankin-Bass Television Production "The Year Without Santa Claus", copyright 1974)
Heavenly Sound (First Line: Behold, a lucid light appears)
Heirlooms (Words and Music by Bob Farrell, Brown Bannister, and Amy Grant, copyright 1983; From A Christmas Album, Amy Grant; link open in a new window at the website of Amy Grant)
Her Baby, Newly Breathing, Brian Wren (born 1936) © 1989 Stainer & Bell Ltd
Her Virgin Eyes Saw God Incarnate Born (Alternate Title: Herald, Sound The Note Of Judgment; Lyrics by Moir A. J. Waters, copyright)
Herald Angels - "Hark! The herald angels sing," from A Good Christmas Box
Here Betwixt Ass And Oxen Mild (Notes Only; Translation Charles Winfred Douglas, said to be copyright 1940, however, there is no record at the U.S. Government Copyright Office)
Here Comes Holly (Husk; 1868)
Here Commes Holly, That Is So Gent (Chambers & Sidgwick), compare: Her Commys Holly, That Is So Gent (Wright, 1847)
Here Comes Santa Claus (Words and Music by Gene Autry & Oakley Haldeman, copyright 1947)
Here Comes Santa Claus (Australian Christmas – Humor)
Here Have I Dwelt In Joyfulness (Weston)
Here Is the Centre (Timothy Dudley-Smith, copyright 1991; link opens at David Lee's Service Music)
Here We Come A-Caroling (The Wassail Song)
Here We Come A-Wassailing (The Wassail Song)
Here We Come A-Whistling (through the fields so green)
Here We Go Up To Bethlehem, Sydney Carter (1915-2004) © 1965 Stainer & Bell Ltd.
Herode Yt Was Both Wylde And Wode (Middle English)
Herrick's Ode (Alternate Title: In Numbers, And But These Few)
Hey for Christmas or Shropshire Wakes
Hey, Hey, Ho (Words and Music: Ed Chenette, 1937, copyright)
High Let Us Swell Our Tuneful Notes – Version 1 (Philip Doddridge, 1755)
High Let Us Swell Our Tuneful Notes – Version 2 (Doddridge, from Chandler, 1837)
High Let Us Swell Our Tuneful Notes – Version
3,
Alternate Title:
High O'er The Lonely Hills (Notes Only;
Jan Struther (1901-1953), copyright 1931)
Holiday Season, The (Words and Music by Kay Thompson, copyright 1955; link opens at new site.)
Holidaze (Humor from Bob Rivers, Bob Rivers’ Twisted Tunes)
Holver and Heivy Made A Grete Party (Chambers & Sidgwick)
Holly And Ivy (Made A Great Party; Husk, 1868)
Holly And The Ivy, The, Emily Chisholm (1910-1991) © 1972 Stainer & Bell Ltd.
The Holly Bough (The cheerful days of Spring are fine)
Holy Child (Copyright Timothy Dudley-Smith)
Holy maiden, blessed thou be (Singe we, singe we) (Rickert)
Holy Maydyn, Blyssid Thou Be (Wright, 1856)
Holy Night - Wendte
Holy Night, Calmly Bright (Translation by Mary D. Moultrie; "Watch we where in slumber light," translation of a poem written by Johann Ludwig Uhland (1787-1862), not Joseph Mohr as previously reported by John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Second Edition, 1907).
Holy Night, Peaceful Night (Translation by Miss Jane Montgomery Campbell, 1862; "All is dark, save the light"); This and the next four are translations of Stille Nacht! Heilige Nacht!
Holy Night, Peaceful Night (Translation by Alfred Bell, circa 1869, an adaptation of the Campbell translation; "Through the darkness beams a light / Yonder, where they sweet vigils keep")
Holy Night! Peaceful Night! (Translator unknown; pub. 1896; "Through the darkness beams a light / Where the angels vigils keep")
Holy Night! Silent Night! (Translator unknown, ca. 1905; "Round the gentle mother and child")
Holy Night, Silent Night (Translator unknown, ca. 1918; "All things sleep, Angels bright")
Holy Well, The (Alternate Title: As It Fell Out One May Morning)
Home for the Holidays (Words by Al Stillman; Music by Robert Allen, copyright 1954)
Home On Christmas Day (Written by Cyndi Lauper, Rob Hyman, William Wittman, copyright 1998; from the CD Merry Christmas Have A Nice Life; page opens in new window at the Cyndi Lauper web site)
Homeless (Words and Music: Michael McLean (1952-), The Forgotten Carols (Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret Book Co., 1991, rev. 2003). Links open at exterior sites.
Hominum Laudes (Alternate Title: Christ, Hath Christ's Mother Borne")
Hosanna to the Prince of Light (Of David's ancient line) by Anonymous
Hosanna! To The Prince of Light (Who clothed himself in clay) by Isaac Watts
Hostis Herodes impie - Wm. Herebert (First Line: Herodes, thou wykked fo, wharof ys thy dredinge ?)
The House Of Christmas (First line: There fared a mother driven forth)
How Beautiful The Morning Star (Philip Pusey, alt. in Hymnologia Christiana, 1863)
How Beautiful The Morning Star (Philip Pusey, alt. in The Salisbury Hymnal, 1867)
How Beautiful The Morning Star (Philip Pusey, alt. in the Sarum Hymnal, 1868)
How Bright Appears Our Morning Star (Hopkins) (German: Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern)
How Bright Appears The Morning Star (Jacobi)
How Brightly Shines the Morning Star (Composite)
How Brightly Shines the Morning Star (Borthwick)
How Brightly Beams the Morning Star (Winkworth); compare: O Morning Star, How Fair and Bright (Winkworth, second version)
How Brightly Dawns The Morning Star (Hymnologia Christiana)
How Brightly Glows the Morning-Star (Stryker)
How Brightly Shines the Morning Star (Sloan, #2)
How Fair The Morning Star Doth Shine (Keyte and Parrott, The New Oxford Book of Carols, copyright 1992)
How Fairly Shines The Morning Star (Lyra Davidica, 1708)
How Far Is It To Bethlehem (Alternate Title: Children's Song Of The Nativity)
How Glad I Am Each Christmas Eve (Alternate Titles: I Am So Glad Each Christmas Eve and I Am So Happy Each Christmas Eve; Norwegian: Jeg Er Saa Glad Hyer Julekveld)
How Great Our Joy (While By The Sheep)
How Long, The Prophets Cried, How Long, Fred Pratt Green (1903-2000) © 1989 Stainer & Bell Ltd.
How Lovely Now The Morning-star (Cox, Hymns from the German. Second Edition, pp. 3-9)
How Lovely Now The Morning Star, (Cox, Hymns from the German. Second Edition, pp. 229-235)
How Lovely Now The Morning Star (Cox, alt., in Hopkins; German: Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern)
How Lovely Shines the Morning Star (Cox, alt.)
How Lovely Shines the Morning Star (Harbaugh)
How Shall I Meet Thee? How My Heart (Compare: O How Shall I Receive Thee? and O Lord, How Shall I Meet You)
How Silent Waits the Listening Earth (Timothy Dudley-Smith, copyright 1995; link opens at David Lee's Service Music)
Huron Carol, The (Twas in the Moon of Winter Time)
Husbande of Mary, The (Middle English; retyped in Old Blackletter)
Hymn For Christmas Day - Taylor (First Line: "Where is this blessed Babe?")
Hymn For New Year [First Line: "Great God, we sing that mighty hand"]
I Am Here, Syre Crystes Mass - Joseph Ritson, 1829; Notes: Sir Christmas - Henry Vizetelly, 1851, and Joshua Sylvester, 1861
I Am Here, Syre Christmasse - William Sandys, 1833
I am here, syre Crystesmass - Thomas Wright, 1841
I Am Here, Sir Christhismas - William Henry Husk, 1868
I Am Here, Sir Christemas - Edith Rickert, 1910
I Am So Glad Each Christmas Eve (Alternate Title: How Glad I Am Each Christmas Eve; Norwegian: Jeg Er Saa Glad Hyer Julekveld)
I Am So Happy Each Christmas Eve (Alternate Title: How Glad I Am Each Christmas Eve; Norwegian: Jeg Er Saa Glad Hyer Julekveld)
I Believe In Father Christmas (Greg Lake and Peter Sinfield, copyright)
I Believe In Santa Claus (Kenny Rodgers and Dolly Parton, copyright 1984. There is another song with the same title with lyrics by Raymond B. Egan (1890 - ) and music by John Frederick Coots (1897 - ), published in 1945. I do not have a copy of this song. Do you?)
I Come From Heuin To Tell (Sandys, 1833; Middle English)
I Come, The Great Redeemer Cries (Words: Christian Hymnbook, 1865, as alt. in #116, The Hymnal 1982)
I Cry The Day I Take The Tree Down (Words and Music: Michael McLean (1952-), The Forgotten Carols (Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret Book Co., 1991, rev. 2003). Links open at exterior sites.
I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day (Music by John Baptiste Calkin, 1872)
I Heard The Bells on Christmas Day (Music by John D. Marks, copyright 1956)
I Heard The Bells on Christmas Day (Original Longfellow poem: Christmas Bells)
I Heard The Church Bells Ringing (Alternate Title: Christmas Bells - Words and Music by Sydney Cross)
I Know A Flower (Flos de radice Jesse, or Es ist ein Ros entsprugen)
I Pray On Christmas (Harry Connick, Jr., copyright 1993)
I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus (Words & Music by Tommie Conner, copyright 1952)
I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus (I Saw Elvis Dressed As Santa Claus – Humor)
I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus (I Saw Teacher Kissing Santa Chlorine – Humor)
I Saw Three Ships - Version 1 (Alternate Title: Christmas Morning; with Sandys' Notes)
I Saw Three Ships (Alternate Version: As I Sat On A Sunny Bank)
I Shall Not Be Jealous, My Son. The Virgin Mother to Her Child.
I shall you tell this ylke nyght (Middle English; retyped in Old Blackletter)
I Should Like To Have Heard (Alternate Title: The First Christmas Night)
I Sing Of A Night in Bethlehem (Don Oiche Ud I mBeithil)
I Sing the Birth Was Born Tonight - Version 1
I Sing The Birth Was Born Tonight - Version 2 (Version 3 from William Sandys is substantially the same, but without attribution)
I Traveled Over Land and Sea (Words: Jeg gikk meg over sjø og land)
I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas (Words and Music: John Rox, copyright 1953)
I Was Not His Father, He Was Mine (Words and Music: Michael McLean (1952-), The Forgotten Carols (Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret Book Co., 1991, rev. 2003). Links open at exterior sites.
I Wonder As I Wander (Collected by John Jacob Niles in July, 1933)
I Would Now Sing For And I Might (Alternate Title: The Three Kings)
I’ll Be Home For Christmas (Words and Music by Kim Gannon, Buck Ram, and Walter Kent, copyright 1948; Notes)
I’ll Be Home For Christmas (I’ll Be Cloned For Christmas – Humor)
I'll Be Missing You Come Christmas (Authorship Unknown; Performed by New Kids On The Block)
I’m Dressing Up Like Santa (Humor from Bob Rivers, Bob Rivers’ Twisted Tunes)
I’m Gonna Be Warm This Winter (Date and Authorship Unknown)
I'm Sending Me (For Christmas) (Don "Carolina" Pierce, 1994; links opens in new window at the Austin Rudy website)
I'm Spending Christmas With You (Words and Music by Tom Occhipinti, 1981)
I've Been Looking For Christmas (Kevin Savigar and Patti Smythe, Date Unknown)
If thou be Johan, I tell it the (Middle English; retyped in Old Blackletter)
If I Could Visit Bethlehem, Brian Wren (born 1936) © 1990 Stainer & Bell Ltd
If I Had Been in Bethlehem (Link opens in a new window at Sally DeFord Music)
If It Doesn't Snow On Christmas (Words by Milton H. Pascal, Music by Gerald Marks, copyright 1943)
Immanuel, Immanuel (Link opens in a new window at Sally DeFord Music)
Immortal Babe, Who This Dear Day (Sandys; Alternate Title: For Christmas Day)
Immortal Babe, Who On This Day (William Knapp)
In A Manger (Alternate Title: In A Manger Poor)
In A Manger Lies The Child (Alternate Title: Ring The Joyful Bells)
In Betheleem, That Noble Place - Version 1
In Betheleem, That Noble Place - Version 2 (Middle English; retyped in Old Blackletter)
In Bethlehem City (1661) - from New Carolls For This Merry Time of Christmas (1661)
In Bethlehem City - Harding B 25(382) (between 1796 and 1853)
In Bethlehem City (Broadwood and Fuller Maitland, 1893)
In Bethlehem City, On Christmas-day Morn - Woodward
In Bethlehem, That Noble Place (Sandys; Middle English: In Betheleem, That Noble Place)
In Bethlem Town (Words: Leland Bryant Ross, 1997, link opens a new window at his site)
In Dulci Jubilo - Original Version; See: In Dulci Jubilo - Notes On The Carol
In Dulci Jubilo – Version 1, Translation by Elizabeth Poston (Fourteenth-century German/Latin macaronic carol Nun singet und seid froh by Heinrich of Suso); under copyright
In Dulci Jubilo – Version 2, Alternate Translation by Elizabeth Poston; under copyright
In Dulci Jubilo – Version 3, Translation by Pearsall
In Dulci Jubilo – Version 4, Translation by SP
In Dulci Jubilo – Version 5, Translation by Catherine Winkworth
In Dulci Jubilo - Version 6, Translator Unknown; Carol #497, Charles L. Hutchins, Carols Old and Carols New (1916)
In Dulci Jubilo - Version 7, Translation by George R. Woodward
In Dulci Iubilo - Version 8, Translation by John Wedderburn (modernized by Rickert)
In Dulci Jubilo - Version 9; Translation by the Editors; Hugh Keyte and Andrew Parrott, eds., The New Oxford Book of Carols, 1992; under copyright
In Dulci Jubilo - Culloton - Version 11
In Dulci Jubilo, Now Lat Vs Sing With Myrth And Jo - Version 12 from Wedderburn, A Compendious Book of Godly and Spiritual Songs
In dulci jubilo - Terry, "Two Hundred Folk Carols"
In Excelsis Gloria ("When Christ Was Born of Mary Free") – Version 1
In Excelsis Gloria ("When Christ Was Born of Mary Free") – Version 2
In Excelsis Gloria ("When Christ Was Born of Mary Free") – Version 3
In Excelsis Gloria ("When Christ Was Born of Mary Free") – Version 4
In Midnight’s Silence (Alternate Title: In the Quiet Night; Translation from Polish: Wsrod Nocnej Ciszy; another translation is Wondrous Child)
In Numbers, And But These Few (Middle English)
In Our Darkness Light Has Shone (Timothy Dudley-Smith, copyright 1997; link opens at David Lee's Service Music)
In Praise Of Christmas (Alternate title to "Drive The Cold Winter Away.")
In Stature Grows The Heavenly Child - Chandler, 1837
In The Ending Of The Year - Version 1
In The Loft Sits The Pixy With His Christmas Porridge (Words: På loftet sidder nissen med sin julegrøød, Margrethe Munthe)
In the Morning (Words and Music by Dan Schutte, S.J., copyright)
In this tyme Cryst hast us sent - Thomas Wright
In this tyme of Chrystmas (Middle English; retyped in Old Blackletter)
In These Twelve Days (Davies Gilbert)
In Those Twelve Days (William Sandys)
Infant Born In Bethlehem, Born to save Jerusalem. Anonymous in Mrs. Carey Brock's Children's Hymn Book, 1881.
Infant Holy, Infant Lowly (Polish carol, W Zlobie Lezy; compare Jesus Holy, Born So Lowly)
Infant Jesus, We Adore Thee - The Circumcision
In To This World This Day Dide Com (Flügel)
Into The World This Day Did Come (Weston)
Into This World, This Day Did Come (Rickert)
Ioseph An Aged Man Truly - Version 1
Ioseph An Aged Man Truly - Version 2
Ipse mocat me (Middle English; retyped in Old Blackletter)
Irish Carol (Alternate Title: Christmas Day Is Come)
It Doesn't Have To Be That Way (Words and Music by Jim Croce, copyright 1972)
It Feels Like Christmas (Authorship Unknown; Performed by Cyndi Lauper; from the CD Merry Christmas Have A Nice Life; page opens in new window at the Cyndi Lauper web site)
It was a mayde of brente nars (Middle English; retyped in Old Blackletter)
It Wern Fowre Letterys Of Purposy (M and A, R and Y)
It’s A Big Country (Davitt Sigerson, Date Unknown)
It’s Beginning To Look a Lot Like Christmas (Words & Music by Meredith Willson, 1961)
It’s Beginning To Look a Lot Like Christmas (There’s A Santa Who Looks A Lot Like Elvis – Humor from Bob Rivers, Bob Rivers’ Twisted Tunes)
It's Christmas All Over the World (Words and Music by Bill House and John Hobe, 1985)
It's Christmas Everywhere (Authorship and Date Unknown; Performed by Paul Anka)
It's Christmas Once Again (Authorship and Date Unknown; Performed by Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers)
It's Christmas Time (Victor Young and Al Stillman, Copyright 1962)
It’s Just Another New Year’s Eve (Marty Panzer and Barry Manilow, Date Unknown)
It’s Snowing Angels (Authorship and Date Unknown; Performed by XTC)
Ivy Chefe Of Treis It Is (Chambers & Sidgwick, 1907)
Ivy Chefe Off Treis It Is (Wright, 1847)
Ivy, Chief Of Trees (Husk, 1968)
Jesu Parvule (Bates Burt and Alfred Burt, copyright 1943; opens in new window at the Alfred Burt Carols web site)
Jesu Hail! (Alternate title: Jesu Hail! O God Most Holy)
Jesu, Redeemer From On High (W. J. Copeland, 1848)
Jesu, The Ransomer of Man (Primer, 1685)
Jesu, the Ransomer of Man (Evening Office, 1710)
Jesu! The Very Thought Is Sweet! (Neale, #18, Hymn; Translation of Jesu dulcis memoria)
Jesu! The Very Thought Is Sweet! (Neale, #72, Sequence; Translation of Jesu dulcis memoria)
Jesu! The Very Thought Is Sweet (Neale, Alt.; Translation of Jesu dulcis memoria)
Jesu! The Very Thought Of Thee! (Translation of Jesu dulcis memoria)
Jesus Born On This Day (Mariah Carey and Walter Afanasieff, Date Unknown)
Jesus Christ The Apple Tree (First Line: The tree of life my soul hath seen)
Jesus Comes Today! Brian Wren (born 1936) © 1986 Stainer & Bell Ltd.
Jesus Gift, The (Gilbert M. Martin, copyright)
Jesus Holy, Born So Lowly (Walter Ehret, Copyright 1963)
Jesus Is God's Gift To Us, Fred Pratt Green (1903-2000) © 1972 Stainer & Bell Ltd
Jesus Was Born In Bethlehem (Words and Music by Ralph Merrifield, copyright 1994, used with permission)
Jesus, Good Above All Other (Percy Dearmer, 1906)
Jesus, Kind Above All Other (John Mason Neale, 1867)
Jesus, How Sweet Thy Memory Is! (Dr. J. W. Alexander)
Jesus, Jesus, Baby Dear ("Rocking Carol," Translation of Hajej, nynej, Jezisku by George K. Evans, copyright 1963)
Jesus, Jesus, Rest Your Head (Alternate Title: The Manger Cradle Song)
Jesus, Lord, at Thy Birth (Link opens in a new window at Sally DeFord Music)
Jesus, Redeemer Of Us All, Alan Gaunt (born 1935) from Anonymous Latin Jesu Redemptor Onmium © 1991 Stainer & Bell Ltd.
Jesus, Thou Joy Of Loving Hearts (Translation of Jesu dulcis memoria)
Jesus’s Birthday (Humor from Bob Rivers, Bob Rivers’ Twisted Tunes)
Jhesu Of A Mayde Yu Woldest Be Born - Middle English from Sandys
Jhesu Of His Moder Was Born - Wright, 1856; for Second Advent
Jhesu was born in Bedlem Judé - Wright, 1856
Jing-A-Ling, Jing-A-Ling (Words and Music by Don Raye and Paul J. Smith, Date Approximately 1950)
Jingle Bell Rock (Words & Music by Joe Beal and Jim Boothe, 1957)
Jingle Bells (Original Title: "One-Horse Open Sleigh")
Jingle Bells (Another Jingle Bell$ / Dashing Through The Mall – Humor)
Jingle Bells (Australian – Humor)
Jingle Bells (Christmas Bills / Dashing To The Mall – Humor)
Jingle Bells (Desert Version – Humor)
Jingle Bells (Have A Jewish Christmas – Humor)
Jingle Bells (Java Bells – Humor)
Jingle Bells (Jingle Bells With Kids – Humor)
Jingle Bells (Jingle Bells, Prison Cells – Humor)
Jingle Bells (Lab Reports - Humor)
Jingle Bells (Microsoft Version – Humor)
Jingle Bells (Profits Here, Profits There – Humor)
Jingle Bells (Rusty Chevrolet – Humor)
Jingle Bells (Traffic Jam – Humor)
Jingle Bells (Yorkie Version – Humor)
Jingle Bells (Words: Otto Leisner, Bjældeklang)
Jingle, Jingle, Jingle (Alternate Title: Kris Kringle, John D. Marks, copyright 1964)
Ioseph An Aged Man Truly - Version 1
Ioseph An Aged Man Truly - Version 2
Joseph Being An Aged Man (with Sandys' note) (Alternate Title: Joseph and Mary)
Joseph Dearest, Joseph Mine – Version 1
Joseph Dearest, Joseph Mine – Version 2
Joseph Dearest, Joseph Mine – Version 3
Joseph Dearest, Joseph Mine – Joseph Dearest, Joseph Mild
Joseph Dearest, Joseph Mine – Joseph, O Dear Joseph Mine
Joseph Dearest, Joseph Mine – German, Josef, Lieber Josef Mein
Joseph Was An Old Man - Part 1 of the Cherry Tree Carols
Joseph Was An Old Man - Version 1 - Southern Appalachia
Joseph Was An Old Man - Version 2 - Kentucky
Joseph Was An Old Man - Version 3 - Cherry Tree Carols
Joseph Was An Old Man - Version 4 - Cherry Tree Carols
Joseph Was An Old Man - Journal of the Folk Song Society, Vol. III.
As Joseph Was A-Walking - Terry, Old Christmas Carols (1923)
As Joseph Was A-Walking - Terry, Twelve Christmas Carols (1912)
As Joseph Was A-Walking - Terry, Two Hundred Folk Carols
Joy To The World – Popular Version
Joy To The World – Watt's Original
Joy To The World (From Sylvester)
Joy To The World (From Husk)
Joy To The World (From Richard R. Terry)
Joy to the World - Dr. Steve H. Hakes
Joy To The World (Christmas Is Here – Humor)
Joyful Is The Morn (Alternate Title: Once Again The Olden Story)
Joyous Christmas (Johnny Marks, copyright 1969)
Joys Seven (Alternate Title: The First Good Joy Our Mary Had)
Jubilee (Performed by Mary Chapin Carpenter)
Judea's Calm and Silent Night (O Silent Night, Emma Pitts, pub. 1884)
Kay Thompson's Jingle Bells (Words and Music by Kay Thompson (1909?-1998), Johnny Mandel (1925-), and James S. Pierpont (1822-1893), copyright 1968 - although it was certainly written earlier since Andy Williams recorded it in 1963; links open at a new site.)
Keep Christmas With You All Through The Year (From "Christmas Eve on Sesame Street"; authorship and date unknown)
Kid In Me, The (By Don Koch, Dave Clark and Dan Dean, Date Unknown)
Kidnap The Sandy Claws (From "The Nightmare Before Christmas", Authorship and Date Unknown)
The kiges baner on felde is playd (retyped in "Old Blacketter:" The kiges baner on felde is playd.)
King Jesus Hath A Garden (Dutch: Heer Jesus heeft een Hofken)
King of Israel (Written by Joseph W. Pace II, copyright 1996, performed by the Colorado Mass Choir; it is found on the 1996 CD "The Real Meaning of Christmas"; link opens in a new window at Amazon.com)
Kings, The (Alternate Title: Three Kings Had Journey'd From Lands Afar)
L'An Mil Sies Cens Quaranto Cinc (French, from William Sandys, 1833)
Lassie and Lad, Array You — Bellissima regina
Last Christmas (George Michael - Wham, 1985)
Last Month Of The Year (Vera Hall, copyright 1953)
Last Night As I Was Laid And Sleep (Alternate Title: The Boy's Dream)
Last Night I Saw Santa (New Kids On The Block, Authorship and Date Unknown)
Lat vs reioyis and sing (Thie Conceptioun of Christ)
The Laundry Carol (First Line: Why not be for ever gay, Bregado?)
Legends Of The Infancy (Alternate Title: Come Forth, Ye Wond'ring Children All)
Les Clothes Du Hameau (Music Arr.: Ric Wake, Shane Keister, Ronn Huff; Created 1998; Copyright 1999, Performed by Celine Dion)
Lestenyt, Lordynges, Bothe Elde and 3ynge (Burden: Of a rose, a lovely rose) (Wright, 1856)
Lestenyt3, lordynges, bothe grete and smale (Burden: A, a, a, a, Nunc gaudet ecclesia) (Wright, 1856)
Let All That Are To Mirth Inclined - Gilbert, 1823
Let Christians All With One Accord Rejoice (Alternate Title: The Black Decree)
Let Christians All With One Accord Rejoice - Version 2
Let Christians All With Joyful Mirth (A Yoeman's Carol)
Let Heav’n And Earth Rejoice And Sing - Version 1
Let Heaven and Earth Rejoice And Sing - Version 2
Let Heaven Rejoice (Words and Music: Bob Dufford, S.J., copyright)
Let Heaven Rejoice, And Earth Be Glad - Littledale
Let Him In (Words and Music: Michael McLean (1952-), The Forgotten Carols (Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret Book Co., 1991, rev. 2003). Links open at exterior sites.
Let it Snow! Let it Snow! Let it Snow! (Words by Sammy Cahn, Music by Jule Styne, copyright 1945)
Let it Snow! Let it Snow! Let it Snow! (I Hate Snow – Humor)
Let it Snow! Let it Snow! Let it Snow! (Prove It’s So – Humor)
Let it Snow! Let it Snow! Let it Snow! (The Net Is Slow – Humor)
Let Me Sleep (It's Christmas Time) (Pearl Jam, 1991)
Let Our Gladness Have No End (Alternate Title: Let Our Gladness Know No End)
Let Sighing Cease And Woe - Version 1
Let The Song Be Begun (Personent hodie from Piae Cantiones, 1582; Translation by John Mason Neale)
Let The Voice of Praise Resound (Latin: Resonet in Laudibus 1)
Let The Voice of Praise Resound (Latin: Resonet in Laudibus 2)
Let The Voice of Praise Resound (Latin: Resonet in Laudibus 3)
Let There Be Peace On Earth (Words and Music: Sy Miller and Bill Jackson, Date Unknown)
Let Us Rejoice and Sing: Thie Conceptioun of Christ (Lat vs reioyis and sing)
Let Us Rejoice In Christ, Fred Pratt Green (1903-2000) © 1982 Stainer & Bell Ltd.
Let's Have An Old Fashioned Christmas (Words: Larry Conley (1985-1960), Music: Joseph Solomon (18497-1947), copyright 1939)
Let Us Live Christmas Every Day - Helen Steiner Rice (May 19, 1900 - April 23, 1981), copyright.
Letter To Syracuse (Dave Cartwright and Bill Caddick, Date Unknown)
Lift Up Your Heads, Ye Mighty Gates - Version 1 (Translation of Georg Weissel, Macht hoch die Tuer)
Lift Up Your Heads, Ye Mighty Gates - Version 2 (Original Winkworth Translation of Georg Weissel, Macht hoch die Tuer)
Lift Up Your Heartes And Be Glad! (Rickert)
Lift Up Your Hearts And Be Ye Glad (Weston)
Lyft Vp Your Hartes & Be Glad (Flügel)
Lift Up Your Songs, Ye Angel-Choirs ("The Two Thrones") - For Second Advent
Light of Glory Breaks, The (Timothy Dudley-Smith, copyright 2002; link opens at David Lee's Service Music)
Like Fields Awaiting The Sowing Of The Seed, Fred Kaan (born 1929) based on the Catalan by Alberto Taulé © 1993 Stainer & Bell Ltd.
Like Silver Lamps In A Distant Shrine (Alternate Title: The Manger Throne)
Lines. Suggested By A Picture of the Adoration of the Magicians
List! Afar! What Angel Voices (Alternate Title: Child Divine)
Listen How The Winds (Traditional Dutch Sinterklaas Song: Hoor de wind waait door de bomen)
Listen, Lordings, Unto Me - Version 1 (Carol for Christmas Eve)
Listen, Lordings, Unto Me - Version 2
Listeneth, lordings, both great and small (Alternate: A, a, a, a)
Little Altar Boy (Howlett Peter Smith, 1957)
Little Boy Santa Claus Forgot (Tommie Connor, Jimmy Leach and Michael Carr, copyright 1937)
Little Children Can You Say (Charlotte Phillips, ed., The Shower of Pearls, A Collection of Poetry (London: Simpkin, Marshall and Co., et al.: 1855), pp. 15-16.)
Little Children, Can You Say (from Charles Clayton, ed., Choice gatherings for Christian Children (London: J. H. Jackson, 1846), p. 135.)
Little Donkey (Words and Music: Eric Boswell, copyright 1959)
Little Drummer Boy, The (Words and Music by Katherine K. Davis, Henry Onorati, and Harry Simeone, 1958)
Little Drummer Boy, The (Little Spammer Boy – Humor)
Little Lamb of God (Words and Music by Lynne Perry Christofferson, Date unknown)
Little Saint Nick (Words and Music by Brian Wilson and Mike Love, copyright 1963, 1964)
Little Town (Words O Little Town of Bethlehem, Traditional; Music by Chris Eaton, 1982; From A Christmas Album, Amy Grant; link open in a new window at the website of Amy Grant)
Live Aid Christmas Song (Do They Know It's Christmas?) M. Ure and B. Geldof, Date Unknown
Lo, How A Rose E’er Blooming – Version 1 (Lo, how a rose e'er blooming, From tender stem hath sprung!; Baker and Krauth Translations). See: Notes on Lo, How A Rose E'er Blooming
Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming – Version 2 (Lo, how a rose e’er blooming, On tender root has grown; Translator Unknown.)
Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming – Version 3 (Alternate Translation: I Know a Rose Tree Springing; Translator Unknown)
Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming – Version 4 (Alternate Translation: Behold, a Branch is Growing; Translators: Spaeth and Mattes)
Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming – Version 5 (Alternate Translation: A Spotless Rose Is Blowing; Alternate Title: The Rose of Sharon; Translator: Catherine Winkworth)
Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming – Version 6 (Alternate Translation: Behold, a Branch Has Flowered; Translator: Unknown )
Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming – Version 7 (Alternate Translation: There Is A Flower Springing; Translator: Ursula Vaughan Williams, The Oxford Book of Carols, copyright 1928)
Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming – Version 8 (Alternate Translation: Of Jesse's Line Descended; Translators: Hugh Keyte and Andrew Parrott, The New Oxford Book of Carols, copyright 1992)
Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming – Version 9 (Alternate Translation: Lo, How A Rose Is Growing, Translation by Gracia Grindal, Lutheran Book of Worship, 58, copyright circa 1978)
Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming – Version 10 (Alternate Translation: The World's Fair Rose Has Blossomed, Translator Elizabeth Poston, The Penguin Book of Christmas Carols, 1965)
Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming – Version 11 (Alternate Translation: Lo, A Fair Rose A-Blooming, Translators Coffin and Vernon)
Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming - Version 12, Translator Unknown
Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming - Version 13: The Noble Stem of Jesse, Translator: George R. Woodward
Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming - Version 14, I Know A Flower it springeth, From earth a tender shoot; Translator: George R. Woodward
Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming - German, Es Ist Ein Ros
Lo, The Pilgrim Magi! - Version 1
Lo! He Cometh, Countless Trumpets by John Cennick, 1752
Lo! He Comes With Clouds Descending, Charles Wesley, 1758
Lo! He Comes With Clouds Descending, Thomas Olivers, 1763
Lo! He Comes, With Clouds Descending, a compilation by Martin Madan
Lo! He Comes, An Infant Stranger by Richard Mant (1776-1848)
Lo! He Comes, An Infant Stranger - An arrangement of Mant's version from Christmas Carols, 1833
Lo! He Comes! Let All Adore Him by Thomas Kelly, 1805
Lo! Today Into Our World The Word Is Born, Aujourd'hui dans notre monde le Verbe est né by Didier Rimaud (born 1922) and translated by Fred Pratt Green (1903-2000), English translation © 1974 Stainer & Bell Ltd
Lon De La Gran Carriere (French, from William Sandys, 1833)
Lone Cow Lows, The, John Ferguson (1921-1989) © 1982 Stainer & Bell Ltd
Long Ago And Far Away (Words: Resonet In Laudibus, Authorship Anonymous; English Words by Edward Traill Horn III (1909-), copyright 1958)
Long Ago, Prophets Knew, Fred Pratt Green (1903-2000) © 1971 Stainer & Bell Ltd. See Note
Long Years Ago O’er Bethlehem’s Hills (Leigh Richmond Brewer, Date Unknown)
Long Years Ago O'er Bethlehem's Hills (Charles Whitney Coombs)
Long, Long Ago, The Angel Throng (Alternate Title: The Christmas Story)
Look How The Moon Shines Through The Trees (Traditional Dutch Sinterklaas Song: Zie de maan schijnt door de bomen)
Look Toward Christmas (Advent Song) (Advent) - Shirley Erena Murray (opens in a new window at an exterior site)
Look, Here Comes The Steamboat (Traditional Dutch Sinterklaas Song: Zie ginds komt de stoomboot)
The Lord At First Did Adam Make (From Davies Gilbert)
The Lord At First Had Adam Made (from William Sandys, compare A Carol for Christmas Eve from Bramley and Stainer)
Lord of the Boundless Curves of Space (Words: Albert F. Bayly; Music Christopher Dearnley, copyright)
Lordes and Ladyes All By Dene (Middle English - Sandys)
Lordes and ladyes all by dene (Middle English; retyped in Old Blackletter)
Love Has Come (Words by Amy Grant, 1983; Music by Shane Keister and Michael W. Smith, 1983; From A Christmas Album, Amy Grant; links open in a new window at the websites of Amy Grant and Michael W. Smith, respectively)
Love Is The Power (M. Boston, D. Warren, W. Afansmief, copyright date unknown)
Love Knows No Borders (Link opens in a new window at Sally DeFord Music)
Lovely Is The Dark Blue Sky (Translation from the Danish, "Deilig Er Den Himmel Blaa")
Lovely Is The Midnight Sky (Translator: S. A. J. Bradley; link opens in external site; Translation from the Danish, "Deilig Er Den Himmel Blaa" )
Lullaby, Jesu (Translation of the Polish Carol, "Lulajze Jezuniu" by Alice Zienko, English version by Ruth Heller; First Line: Lullaby, Jesu, my pearl and my dear one)
Lullaby, Jesus (Translation of the Polish Carol, "Lulajze Jezuniu"; First Line: Lullaby, Jesus, O cease from your crying.)
Lullaby, Jesus (Translation by Terry Kluytmans, Copyright 1999; link opens at an external site in a new window)
Lullay, Jesu, Lullay, Lullay! (First Line: So blessed a sight it was to see)
Lullaby, Little Pearl (Translation of the Polish Carol, "Lulajze Jezuniu" by Marguerite Wilkinson)
Lullaby, Sing Lullaby (Christmas) - Shirley Erena Murray (opens in a new window at an exterior site)
Lullay, Lullay, Litel Child (Qui wepest thou so sore?)
Lullay, Lullay, Little Child (Why weepest thou so sore?)
Lullay My Liking - Version 1
Lullay My Liking - Version 2
Lullay, Mine Liking (Edith Rickert)
Lullay, Myn Lykyng (Richard Greene)
Lullay, Mine Liking, My Dere Sone, Mine Sweting (Chambers & Sidgwick)
Lullay, My Child, And Weep No More (Rickert)
Lullay, My Child, And Wepe No More (Chambers & Sidgwick)
Lullay, Thou Little Tiny Child (Alternate Title: The Coventry Carol)
Lullaby On Christmas Eve (Alternate Title: Mother Her Vigil Is Keeping)
Luther's Carol (Alternate Title: From Highest Heaven I Come To Tell)
Lux Venit (Words: Amy Grant and Bev Darnall; Music: Michael W. Smith; 1989; links open in a new window at the websites of Amy Grant and Michael W. Smith, respectively)
Magic of Christmas Day, The (Words & Music: Dee Snider, 1998; Performed by Celine Dion)
Make We Joy In This Feast (Rickert)
Make we jow in this fest (Wright)
Make We Joy Now In This Fest (Woodward, with sheet music)
Make We Joy Now In This Fest (Terry, with sheet music)
Make We Joye Nowe In This Fest (Greene)
Make we mery in hall and boure (Middle English; retyped in Old Blackletter)
Maker of the Starry Sphere - Campbell, 1850
Maker of the Starry Sphere, Light to Faithful - Sarum Hymnal, 1868, alt.
Maker Of The Sun and Moon, The, Laurence Housman
Maker Of The Sun And Moon, Peter Sharrocks (born 1940) © 1993 Stainer & Bell Ltd & The Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes
Making Christmas (From "The Nightmare Before Christmas")
Man With All The Toys, The (Words and Music by Brian Wilson and Mike Love, 1964)
Manger Cradle Song, The (Alternate Title: Jesus, Jesus, Rest Your Head)
Manger Throne, The (Alternate Title: Like Silver Lamps In A Distant Shrine)
March Of The (Three) Kings (French: La Marche Des Rois Mages)
March of the Three Kings - Version 2
March of the Three Kings - Version 3
March of the Three Kings - Version 4
Maria And The Holy Child (German: Maria Durch Ein'n Dornwald Ging)
Maria Walks Amid the Thorn (German: Maria Durch Ein'n Dornwald Ging)
Marke This Songe, For It Is Trewe (Middle English from Sandys)
Marke this songe for it is trewe (Middle English - Version 2, retyped in Old Blackletter)
Marvelous Toy, The (Words and Music by Tom Paxton, copyright 1960)
Mary Is A Lady Bry3t (Wright, 1856)
mary is a lady bryzt (Fehr, 1902)
Mary Is A Lady Bright (Chambers & Sidgwick, 1907)
Mary Is A Lady Bright (Rickert, 1914)
Mary Let Me Hold Her Baby. (Words and Music: Michael McLean (1952-), The Forgotten Carols (Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret Book Co., 1991, rev. 2003). Links open at exterior sites.
Mary moder come and se (Middle English)
Mary Modr, Meke & Mylde (Middle English from Sandys, 1833)
Mary Set Out On A Winter's Night, Susan Moxom (fl.1972) © 1972 Stainer & Bell Ltd
Mary, Did You Know? (Words: Mark Allen Lowry, 1984, and Music by Lee Rufus (Buddy) Greene, 1990; copyright 1991)
Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary, Fred Kaan (born 1929) © 1999 Stainer & Bell Ltd
Mary’s Little Boy Child (Words & Music by Jester Hairston, copyright 1956)
Mary's Song (Words: M. Gould; Music: M. Kitchingman, copyright; link opens at an external site, The Practical Dreamers Drop-In Centre)
Master Has Proclaimed That He Will Return, The, Malcolm Stewart (born 1925) © 1969 Stainer & Bell Ltd.
Master Of This House (Alternate Title: God Bless The Master of this House)
Masters In The Hall - Version 1 (Alternate Title: Nowell, Sing We Clear)
Masters In The Hall - Version 2 (Alternate Title: Nowell, Sing We Clear)
Mele Kalikimaka (Words and Music by Robert Alexander Anderson, copyright 1949)
Merry Christmas (Jim Coyler, copyright 2005)
Merry Christmas (Kinsey & Kinsey)
Merry Christmas (Wheeler & James)
Merry Christmas All (Authorship Unknown; Performed by Denise Montana)
Merry Christmas Baby (Words and Music by Bruce Springstein, copyright)
Merry Christmas Baby (Words and Music by Brian Wilson, 1964)
Merry Christmas Darling (Lyrics: Frank Pooler, 1946; Music: Richard Carpenter, 1970)
Merry Christmas Polka (Words by Paul Francis Webster; Music by Sonny Burke, 1949)
Merry Christmas Song (Performed by XTC; Authorship and Date Unknown)
Merry Christmas, Lovely Christmas (Translation of Glade jul, dejlige jul, B.S. Ingemann (1850)
Merry Christmas, USA (Austin Rudy, 1994; links opens in new window at the Austin Rudy website)
Merry, Merry, Merry Christmas Baby (Words and Music by Margo Sylvia and Gilbert J Lopez, Date Unknown)
Meruele Nozt, Iosep, On Mary Mylde (Middle English from Sandys)
Mervele nozt, Josep, on Mary mylde - Thomas Wright
Messiah Was Born In A Poor Shelter, The (Nascette lu Messia, Traditional Neapolitan)
Metrical Gloria in excelsis - Words by Rev. Vince Uher, copyright 1998
Mighty One (Words and Music by Ralph Merrifield, copyright 1994, used with permission; for more Merrifield carols, please visit New Hope Music)
The Millennium Prayer - Cliff Richard, Copyright 1999.
Minnie and Santa (Words and Music: Cyndi Lauper and Jan Pulsford, copyright 1998; from the CD Merry Christmas Have A Nice Life; page opens in new window at the Cyndi Lauper web site)
Mirabile Misterium ("Wonderful mystery")
Miracle Hymn (First Line: "On A Starry Night in Bethlehem"). Copyright 2013. Words and Music: Candace Lee and Luke Atencio. Performed by Susan Boyle in the 2013 movie "The Christmas Candle," and on Boyle's Christmas CD "Home For Christmas." ASCAP "Righteous Writing."
The Miracle of the Cock (King Pharaoh - Part 1)
The Miraculous Harvest (King Pharaoh - Part 2)
Miss Fogarty’s Christmas Cake, or was it Miss Hooligan's Christmas Cake?
Miss You Most (At Christmas Time) [Written by Mariah Carey and Walter Afanasieff, Date Unknown]
Mister Santa (Words Pat Ballard, copyright 1955)
Mistletoe and Holly (Words and Music by Frank Sinatra, Dok Stanford and Henry W. Sanicola, 1957)
Mistletoe and Wine - Cliff Richard, Copyright 1988.
Modryb Marya - Aunt Mary ("Now of all the trees by the king’s highway")
Monsters' Holiday (Bobby 'Boris' Pickett, Date Unknown [circa 1960s?])
The Moon Shines Bright - Sandys, 1833
The Moon Shines Bright - A Good Christmas Box, 1847
The Moon Shines Bright - Lucy E. Broadwood and J. A. Fuller Maitland, 1908
Moost souerayn lorde Chryste (Middle English; retyped in Old Blackletter)
More Than A Holiday (Lyrics by David Frazier, copyright 1996, performed by Hezekiah Walker; it is found on the 1996 CD "The Real Meaning of Christmas"; link opens in a new window at Amazon.com)
Morning Star, The (Alternate Title: See! The Morning Star Is Dwelling)
Morning Star Upon Us Gleams, The (Palmer) (Alternate Title: The Morning Star)
Moost souerayn lorde Chryste (Middle English; retyped in Old Blackletter)
The Most Beautiful Story That's Ever Been Told (Link opens in a new window at Sally DeFord Music)
Most Wonderful Day of the Year, The (Words and Lyrics by Johnny Marks, copyright 1964)
Most Wonderful Time of The Year, The (Words & Music by Eddie Pola and George Wyle, Date Unknown)
Most Wonderful Time of The Year, The (It’s The Most Fattening Time of the Year – Humor from Bob Rivers, Bob Rivers’ Twisted Tunes)
Mother Mary (Words and Music by Rita MacNeil, copyright 1988; link opens at Rita MacNeil's Home Page)
Must Be Santa (Words and Music by Hal Moore and William Arthur Fredricks, copyright 1960)
My Christmas Coloring Book (Warner Wilder, Date Unknown)
My Christmas Tree (J. Webb, Date Unknown)
My Favorite Things (Words by Oscar Hammerstein II; Music by Richard Rodgers, The Sound of Music, 1959)
My Heart Of Gold (Alternate Title: My Lady Went To Canterbury)
My hert is set to syng (Middle English; retyped in Old Blackletter)
My lady went to Caunterbury (Middle English; retyped in Old Blackletter)
My Sheep Were Grazing (Alternate Title: The Christmas Hymn; Words by Minna Louise Hohman, copyright 1947)
My Sweet Little Babie (Middle English from Sandys; compare: Be Still, My Blessed Babe - Husk)
My Thought Bore Me To Jordan — Hymn concerning our Lord and John.
The Nativity (by Henry Vaughan)
The Nativity (While shepherds watch'd their flocks by night)
Nay, Nay, Ivy ! (Chambers & Sidgwick, 1907)
Nay, Nay, Ivy! ("Holly beareth berries") (Rickert, 1910)
Nazareth (Alternate Title: Though Poor Be The Chamber)
New Born King (Written by Percy Bady, copyright 1996, performed by Commissioned; it is found on the 1996 CD "The Real Meaning of Christmas"; link opens in a new window at Amazon.com)
New Prince, New Pomp (Alternate Title: Behold A Simple, Tender Babe)
New Year Carol (At the Door of the Year) (New Year) - Shirley Erena Murray (opens in a new window at an exterior site)
New Year's Baby (First Lullaby; Words and Music by Cyndi Lauper, copyright 1998; from the CD Merry Christmas Have A Nice Life; page opens in new window at the Cyndi Lauper web site)
The Newest Thing In Christmas Carols (A parody of God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen)
Nicholas, I Beg Of You (Traditional Dutch Sinterklaas Song: Sinterklaas kapoentje)
Nigh Bethlehem (Bates Burt and Alfred Burt, copyright 1954; opens in new window at the Alfred Burt Carols web site)
Night Before Christmas (Words and Music by Carly Simon, copyright date unknown)
Night Before Christmas Song, The (Clement Clarke Moore - adapted by Johnny Marks, copyright 1952); Compare: Twas The Night Before Christmas (Klickman)
The Night is Dark (link opens in a new window at An Online Christmas Songbook)
Night Is Nearly Over, The, Die nacht ist vorgedrungen by Jochen Klepper (1903-1942) translated by Fred Pratt Green (1903-2000) English translation © 1974 Stainer & Bell Ltd
Ninna, Nanna (Sleep My Darling)
Nisse In The Barn Has Got His Christmas Treat, The (English translation by Mike Sevig, Mike and Else's Norwegian Songbook (Bloomington, MN: Skandisk, 1985) of På Låven Setter Nissen; compare: In the Loft Sits the Pixy, translation of På loftet sidder nissen med sin julegrød)
No Eye Had Seen (Words: Amy Grant; Music: Michael W. Smith; 1989; links opens in a new window at the websites of Amy Grant and Michael W. Smith, respectively)
No Obvious Angels (Christmas) - Shirley Erena Murray (opens in a new window at an exterior site)
No Room In The Inn (Words by A. L. Skilton, Music by E. Grace Uppdegraff; First Line: "No beautiful chamber, No soft cradle bed")
No Room In The Inn (Words: Anonymous, Music: H. J. Gauntlett)
No Room, No Room (Link opens in a new window at Sally DeFord Music)
No Small Wonder, Paul Wigmore. Copyright 1982, reproduced with the kind permission of the author.
Noble Stem Of Jesse, The
Noel, Noel (Alternate Title: 'Tis The Day, The Blessed Day)
Noel, Noel, Noel (Now together sing!; Traditional French; Trans. by Simpson)
Noel, Noel, Noel (Sang the church bell; Housman)
Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel (Compare: The Salutation Carol)
Noel Nouvelet, Sing We Noel (Hugh Keyte and Andrew Parrott, copyright 1992)
Not Mine, Not Mine The Wisdom, John Ferguson (1921-1989) © 1982 Stainer & Bell Ltd
Nova, Nova: Ave Fit Ex Eva (First Line: Gabriel of high degree; compare Gabryell of Hy3e Degree)
Now Be Thankful (Copyright Dave Swarbrick and Richard Thompson, circa 1970; link opens in a new window at an exterior website.)
Now Found Is The Fairest of Roses – Version 1
Now Found Is The Fairest of Roses – Version 2
Now Have Good Day, Now Have Good Day!; compare Here Have I Dwelt In Joyfulness
Now Joy We All In The Trinitie (Weston)
Now Ioy Be To The Trynyte (Flügel)
Now Let All the Heavens Adore Thee (English Translation)
Now Let All the Heavens Adore Thee (German Original)
Now Let Us Sing With Joy and Mirth (Middle English)
Now May We Singen As It Is (Fuller Maitland, 1891)
Now May We Singen As It Is (Rickert, 1914)
Now may we syngyn as it is (Fuller Maitland, 1891)
Now Our God (Words and Music by Ralph Merrifield, copyright 2001, used with permission; for more Merrifield carols, please visit New Hope Music)
Now Rise Up, Ye Shepherds (Alternate Title: The Angel And The Shepherds)
Now The Bells Ring (Words and Music by Rita MacNeil, copyright 1988; link opens at Rita MacNeil's Home Page)
Now the Star of Christmas (The Three Faiths Epiphany Carol) (Epiphany) - Shirley Erena Murray (opens in a new window at an exterior site)
Now To God On High Be Glory (Alternate Title: The Christmas Celebration)
Now We Have Washed The Floor (English translation of Julekveldsvise, Alf Proysen)
Now We Have Scrubbed The Floors, Mike and Else's Norwegian Songbook (Bloomington, MN: Skandisk, 1985) (English translation of Julekveldsvise, Alf Proysen)
Now Winter Is Come; please also see Pray Remember The Poor
Now, Now, The Mirth Comes (From Husk)
Now, Now The Mirth Comes (From Sandys; Alternate Title: Twelfe Night, Or King and Queene)
Nowel! Nowel! Nowel! (Ther is a Babe born of a may)
Nowel el bothe eld and 3yng - Thomas Wright
Nowel Sing We Now All And Sum (First Line: In Bedleem, in that fair cete)
Nowel syng we bothe al and som - Selden B. 26.
Nowel. To Us Is Born Our God Emmanuel, (Terry, Two Hundred Folk Carols, from the Selden MS.)
Nowel. To Us Is Born Our God Emmanuel, (Terry, A Medieval Carol Book, from a parchment roll in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge.)
Nowell, Ell, Both Old and Ying - Rickert
Nowel, el, el, el, el (Chambers & Sidgwick; First Line: The first day whan Crist was borne)
Nowell, Nowell (this is the saluctacion off the aungell Gabriell)
Nowell, Nowell, Nowell (This is the salutacyoun of the angell, Gabryell.)
Nowell, nowell, nowell, nowell (This is the salutation of Gabriel)
Nowell, Sing Nowell (John Rutter, copyright 1972)
Nunc Gaudet Maria (Mary is a lady bright)
Nunne walked on her prayer, The (Middle English; retyped in Old Blackletter)
Nuttin' For Christmas (Words and Music by Sid Tepper and Roy C. Bennett, 1952)
O Bethlehem, a carol from Biscaya
O Bethlehem!, an Old Basque Carol
O Blessed Day, When First Was Pour'd (Monk and Steggall, 1889)
O Blessyd Johan the euangelyst (Middle English; retyped in Old Blackletter)
O Child Of Wonder (Alternate Title: Noel, Noel, Noel)
O Child, Most Truly God's Own Son, Fred Pratt Green (1903-2000) from a traditional Swiss text © 1980 Stainer & Bell Ltd
O Christ The Lord, O Christ The King (Words: R. T. Brooks (1918-); Lyrics are copyright; See #496 in The New English Hymnal)
O Christ, Redeemer Of Mankind - Littledale
O Christ, Redeemer Of Our Race - Baker
O Christ, Redeemer Of the World - Chambers
O Christmas Night! (Dutch Lyrics: O Kersnacht)
O Christmas Tree - Version 1 (German: O Tannenbaum)
O Christmas Tree - Version 2
O Christmas Tree - Version 3
O Christmas Tree - Version 4
O Christmas Tree - Version 5; Translation by George K. Evans ("With faithful leaves unchanging."), copyright 1963, The International Book of Christmas Carols
O Christmas Tree - Version 6; Translation by Bernard Braley ("The tree for every season"), The Galliard Book of Carols
O Christmas Tree - Version 7; Translation by Hugh Keyte and Andrew Parrott ("With faithful leaves unchanging."), The New Oxford Book of Carols (London: Oxford University Press, 1992)
O Christmas Tree - Version 8 ("Your leaves are faithful ever."), Translator unknown.
O Christmas Tree - Version 9 ("With faithful leaves unchanging; different second verse. Translator Unknown.
O Christmas Tree - Version 10 ("Thy leaves are so unchanging"), Translator unknown.
O Christmas Tree - Version 11 ("How true you stand unchanging."), Translator unknown.
O Christmas Tree - Version 12 ("You stand in verdant beauty!"), Translator unknown.
O Christmas Tree - Version 13 ("How lovely are your branches!"), Translator unknown.
O Christmas Tree - Version 14 ("How faithful are thy leaves;"), Translator unknown.
O Christmas Tree - Version 15 ("How beauteous are thy branches."), Translator unknown.
O Christmas Tree - Version 16 ("How steadfast are your branches!"), Translator unknown.
O Christmas Tree - Version 17 ("Your branches green delight us."), Translator unknown.
O Christmas Tree - The Hemlock Tree, Poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
O Christmas Tree - O Faithful Pine
O Christmas Tree - O Christmas Pine
O Christmas Tree (O Lutefisk, O Lutefisk – Humor, Authorship Unknown)
O Christmas Tree (O Kenneth Starr Of Washington – Humor by Will Hartje, Date Unknown)
O Christmas Tree (Puppy Tree – Humor, Copyright 1996 Dogmama and Detroit Download Central)
O Christmas Tree - The Fir-tree, Translator: Aug. Zarnack.
O Christmas Tree - To The Fir Tree, Translator Unknown
O Christmas, You Season of Childlike Delight (Traditional
Norwegian, Words and Music by Gustava Keilland,
O Jul Med Din Glede; Translation by George K. Evans; source
Walter Ehret and George K. Evans, eds.,
The International Book of Christmas
Carols. Fort Lauderdale, FL: Walton
Music Corp., 1963.)
O Come All Ye Faithful, Raise the Hymn of Glory (Husenbeth, 1848)
O Come, All Ye Faithful (Caswell, John Francis Wade, "Adeste Fideles." See: Notes on Adeste Fideles)
O Come, All Ye Faithful (Translations by Frederick Oakeley and William Thomas Brooke)
O Come, All Ye Faithful (The English Hymnal, 1906, #614; the Customary Order of Verses)
O Come, All Ye Faithful (Rodda, 1872)
O Come, All Ye Faithful (It’s Christmas, It’s Christmas – Humor by Howard Ryan, Date Unknown)
O Come, All Ye Faithful (O Come All Ye Grateful Deadheads - Humor from Bob Rivers, Bob Rivers’ Twisted Tunes)
O Come, All Ye Faithful (O Come, All Ye Gases - Humor by an Unknown Author, Date Unknown)
O Come! Come Thou Emmanuel! by Chambers from the Latin, "Veni, Veni Emmanuel! - Daniel"
O Come, Come Thou, Emmanuel by Chope from the Latin, "Veni, Veni Emmanuel! - Daniel"
O Come, Divine Messiah (Translation of the French carol, Venez Divin Messie)
O Come, Little Children – Version 1
O Come, Little Children – Version 2
O Come, Little Children – Version 3
O Come, Little Children – Version 4
O Come, Little Children – Version 5
O Come, O Come Emmanuel – Version 1 (Translation by John Mason Neale, et al, from the Latin, "Veni, Veni Emmanuel! - Daniel")
O Come, O Come Emmanuel – Version 2 (Translated by Thomas Alexander Lacey)
O Come, Redeemer Of Mankind (Translation of Veni, Redemptor Gentium)
O Day Of God, Draw Nigh (Words: R. B. Y. Scott, copyright 1937)
O Divine King (Tu scendi dalle stelle, Traditional Italian)
O Eternal Wisdom Which Proceedest From The Mouth Of The Most High - John Henry Newman, The Greater Antiphons
O Fairest Day That Ever Dawned - Christmas Day
O Faithful Pine (German: O Tannenbaum)
O For A Thousand Tongues To Sing (an excerpt from Glory to God, and Praise and Love)
O Happy Day, When First Was Poured (Dearmer, 1906)
O Hearken Ye (Wihla Hutson and Alfred Burt, copyright 1954; opens in new window at the Alfred Burt Carols web site)
O Heavenly Word Of God On High (Lyrics Are Copyright, #2, Editors, New English Hymnal, 1986)
O Holy Night (French, Minuit, chrétiens or Cantique De Noel)
O How Beautiful The Sky (Words: Deilig Er Den Himmel Blaa, Nicolai F. S. Grundtvig (1783-1872); See Also Mike and Else's Norwegian Songbook (Bloomington, MN: Skandisk, 1985)
O How Shall I Receive Thee - Version 1(Compare: How Shall I Meet Thee and O Lord, How Shall I Meet You)
O Jesu, Sweet Child – Version 1
O Jesu, Sweet Child – Version 2 (Translation by Elizabeth Poston and Malcolm Williamson, eds., A Book of Christmas Carols (New York: Prentice Hall Press, 1988)
O Jesus So Sweet (Text translated & MIDI sequenced by Bill Egan, copyright)
O Little Love (Christmas, Epiphany) - Shirley Erena Murray (opens in a new window at an exterior site)
O Little One Sweet, O Little One Mild (Music Only; Lyrics by Percy Dearmer, 1928, Are Copyright)
O Little Town Of Bethlehem (French, "Petite Ville, Bethleem")
O Little Town Of Bethlehem (O Little Bank Americard – Humor)
O Little Town Of Bethlehem (O Little Credit Card – Humor)
O Little Town Of Bethlehem (O Little Melting Particle - Humor)
O Lord, How Shall I Meet You (Compare O How Shall I Receive Thee and How Shall I Meet Thee)
O Lord, Our God, In Adoration (Words: R. Michael Cullinan, Copyright 1996; Used With Permission)
O Love, How Deep, How Broad, How High - Version 1
O Love, How Deep, How Broad, How High - Version 2
O Merry Ring The Christmas Bells (Alternate Title: The Cornish Bells)
O Morning Star, How Fair and Bright (Winkworth) (German: Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern); compare How Brightly Beams the Morning Star (Winkworth, second version)
O Morning Star, So Pure, So Bright (Composite Translation)
O Most Joyful, O Most Holy, O du froliche by Johannes Daniel Falk (1768-1826) translated by Alan Luff (born 1928) English translation © Stainer & Bell Ltd
O Night of Nights (O night desired of man so long!)
O Round As The World Is The Orange You Give Us! Fred Pratt Green (1903-2000) © 1979 Stainer & Bell Ltd. A Christingle carol.
O Sanctissima Translations and adaptations include:
O du frohliche! (German)
Oh, How Joyfully - Version 1
O How Joyfully - Version 2
Oh, How Joyfully, Brian Wren (born 1936) © 1993 Stainer & Bell Ltd
O Sapiencia of the Ffader (The Great Advent Antiphons, late 15th Century)
O Savior Of Our Fallen Race (Notes Only; Words Copyright by Gilbert E. Doan, Jr., 1930-)
O Silent Night (Emma Pitts, pub. 1884)
O Sing A Song Of Bethlehem (Also Known As: O Sing A Hymn Of Bethlehem)
O Uery lyfe of swetnes and hope (Middle English; retyped in Old Blackletter)
O Very God Of Very God, John Mason Neale
O Very God of Very God - An Advent Hymn from The Hymnary, 1872
O Vision Blest Of Heavenly Light (George B. Timms (1910-); Words Are Copyright)
O Well! O Well! (The First Nowell)
O Wisdom! Of the Father Bred, Dom Samuel Gregory Ould
O Wisdom, Sovereign Master of Man's Soul, Dean Charles William Stubbs
O Wisdom! Spreading Mightily From out the Mouth of God Most High, attributed to Lord Horatio Nelson, The Sarum Hymnal
O Wisdom, That Comest Out of the Mouth of the Most High, John, Marquess of Bute
O Wisdom, That Proceedest from the Mouth of the Most High, Dom Prosper Gueranger
O Wisdom, That Proceedest From the Mouth of the Most High, H. N. Oxenham
O Wisdom That Proceedest From The Mouth of the Most High, Everard Green
O Wisdom, That with God’s Own Breath, Henry Charles Beeching
O Wisdom, Which Camest Forth out of the Mouth of the Most High, John Mason Neale
O Wisdom, Which Camest Out of the Mouth of the Most High, St. Saviour's, Leeds.
O Wisdom Which Camest Out of the Mouth of the Most High, W. J. Birkbeck
O Wisdom Which Camest Out of the Mouth of the Most High, Arthur H. Dyke Acland, 1840.
O Wisdom, Which Camest Out of the Mouth of the Most High, Edward Bannerman Ramsey, 1857.
O Wisdom Which Camest Out of the Mouth of the Most High. Horatio Nelson (3rd Earl Nelson), 1877.
O Wisdom Which Camest Out, G. H. Palmer
O Wisdom Which Comest Out of the Mouth of the Most High. Hymns and Introits for the Service of the Church, 1870.
O Wisdom, Who Came From the Mouth of the Most High, Anonymous
O Wisdom, Who Hast Proceeded - 1719, Anonymous
O Wisdom, Who Hast Proceeded - 1755, Rev. Pacificus Baker, O.S.F.
O Wisdom, Who O'er Earth Below, John Mason Neale and William Cooke, alt. Version 1.
O Word, That Goest Forth On High (Translation: Editors, The Hymnal 1940, #8, Copyright)
O, Come Have A Look (Dutch: O, kom er eens kijken)
O'er The Mountains (First Line: Swelling o’er the mountain sounds the Christmas bell)
Of A Rose Singe We (see: This Rose is Railed on a Ryse)
Of A Rose, A Lovely Rose (Rickert; First Line: Hearken to me, both old and ying)
Of A Rose, A Lovely Rose (Chambers & Sidgwick; First Line: Lesteneth, lordinges, bothe elde and yinge)
Off A Rose, A Louely Rose (Flugel; First line: Herkyn to me both olde & yonge)
Of The Father Sole Begotten - Neale (Latin: Corde Natus Ex Parentis)
Of The Father’s Heart Begotten - Davis
Of The Father’s Love Begotten - Version 1 by Baker
Of The Father’s Love Begotten - Version 2
Of sayne Steuen goddes knyght (Middle English; retyped in Old Blackletter)
Oh, Come, All Ye Faithful, Joyful Triumph Raising (Woodd, 1821)
Oh, Happy Day, When First Was Poured (Chandler, 1837)
Oh, Here's To The Holly (...that cures melancholy!)
Oh, Righteous Joseph wedded was (Christmas Mummers' Carol)
Oh, Sleep Now, Holy Baby (Translation John Donald Robb, Copyright 1954)
Old Christmas (First Line: "It's a long way round the year, my dears")
Old Christmas Returned (First Line: "All you that to feasting and mirth are inclined")
Old Tin Star (Words by Murray McLauchlan, Date Unknown)
Old Toy Trains (Words and Music: Roger Miller, 1967)
Old Year Now Away Is Fled, The (Alternate: The Old Year Away Is Fled)
Omnes Gentes Plaudite - Rickert
Omnes gentes plaudite - Wright
On A Starry Night in Bethlehem (First Line of "Miracle Hymn"). Copyright 2013. Words and Music: Candace Lee and Luke Atencio. Performed by Susan Boyle in the 2013 movie "The Christmas Candle," and on Boyle's Christmas CD "Home For Christmas." ASCAP "Righteous Writing."
On Christmas Night, All Christians Sing - Waddinge, A Smale Garland of Pious and Godly Songs. (1684). Three verses of eight-lines (presumably also appeared as six verses of four-lines). See On Christmas Night - Notes and On Christmas Night - Sheet Music.
Christmas Night - A Good Christmas Box (1847). G. Walters, A Good Christmas Box (Dudley: G. Walters, 1847, Reprinted by Michael Raven, 2007), pp. 20-21. Six verses of four lines. No chorus.
On Christmas Night - Bramley & Stainer (Henry Ramsden Bramley and John Stainer, Christmas Carols New and Old (London: Novello, Ewer & Co., 1878), Carol #56, p. 130. Three verses of ten lines; 4th line and 9th line doubled (a combination of six verses).
On Christmas Night - Broadside Harding B 7(58). Five verses of 4 lines, with notes.
On Christmas Night - Broadside Johnson Ballads 1392A. Six verses of four lines.
On Christmas Night True Christians Sing - Broadside Douce Adds. 137(22), Six verses of four lines, and Arthur Henry Brown, ed., In Excelsis Gloria-Carols for Christmastide, Hymn #23, pp. 49-51, Three verses of eight lines.
On Christmas Night - Broadside Firth b.34(29). Six verses of four lines.
On Christmas Night - Broadwood, (Broadwood, 1892, Surrey). Five verses of six lines. Printed in Journal of the Folk-Song Society, Vol. II, p. 127.
On Christmas Night - Williams - (Noted from Mrs. Verrall, Sussex, 1904, four verses of 6 lines). Also in "Fantasia on Christmas Carols" (1912) and Eight Traditional English Carols (London: Stainer & Bell, Ltd., 1919), Carol #2, "On Christmas Night" (Sussex), pp. 8-10 (verses 1, 3, and 4).
On Christmas Night - Cecil Sharp - Four verses of 4 lines, no chorus. Noted from William Bayliss, 1909, Gloucestershire, printed in Cecil J. Sharp, English Folk-Carols (London: Novello & Co., Ltd., 1911), #10, p. 24.
On Christmas Night - The Batchelar Broadside. Five verses of 4 lines.
On Christmas Times All Christians Sing - Gardiner and Guyer - Three verses of 4 lines. Words and tune collected from George Blake of Southampton, Hampshire, on June 6, 1906 by G. B. Gardiner and John F. Guyer.
On Christmas Night (1) – Five verses of 5 lines (the last line is repeated). Source lost.
On Christmas Night (2) – Four verses of four lines. Source lost.
On Christmas Night (3) – Four verses of six lines (the first two lines of each verse are repeated). Source lost.
On Christmas Night (4) – Williams, 1912 & 1919, three verses of six lines. Compare: On Christmas Night - Williams (1904), four verses of six lines.
On Christmas night all Christians sing. The Sussex Carol. Four verses of four lines, with chorus. Source lost.
On Christmas Times All Christians Sing - Gardiner and Guyer. Three verses of four lines.
On Jordan’s Banks, The Baptist's Cry - Version 1
On Jordan's Bank The Baptist's Cry - Chandler
On The Birthday Of The Lord - Version 1 (Bramley & Stainer)
On The Birthday Of The Lord - Version 2 (G. R. Woodward)
On
The Infancy Of Our Saviour (First Line: Hail, Blessed Virgin,
Full of Heavenly Grace)
Hail Mary, Full of Grace (Marnie Barrell, copyright 2001;
On The Night When Jesus Came (Poland - Gdy Sie Chrystus Rodzi; compare Christ Is Born This Evening)
On This Night (Translation of Traditional French, 19th Century)
On This Night, Most Holy (Words: R. Michael Cullinan, Copyright 1996; Used With Permission)
On This Day Earth Shall Ring (Personent hodie from Piae Cantiones, 1582; Translation Jane M. Joseph)
On This Day Earth Shall Ring (Version 2 - Translator Unknown)
On This Day Youthful Voices Sing Aloud (Personent hodie from Piae Cantiones, 1582)
On Yesternight I Saw A Sight - Version 1, Bramley & Stainer (Alternate Title: Virgin And Child, The
On Yesternight I Saw A Sight - Version 2, Hutchins (Alternate Title: The Virgin And The Child)
Once Again The Olden Story (Alternate Title: Joyful Is The Morn)
One For The Little Bitty Baby (Alternative Title: Children, Go Where I Send Thee)
One God, one Baptisme, and one Fayth (A New Dyall)
One More Sleep Till Christmas (Sung by Kermit in the Muppet Christmas Carol, Copyright 1992)
One Of The Children Of The Year, Fred Pratt Green (1903-2000) © 1992 Stainer & Bell Ltd
One Small Child (Words and Music: David Meese, copyright 1994; Recorded by Rebecca St. James)
Only Son From Heaven, The (Original Lyrics: Gud Faders Son Enbaarne)
Oogie Boogie’s Song (From "The Nightmare Before Christmas", Copyright 1993)
Open Your Sleeping Eyes, Alan Gaunt (born 1935) © Stainer & Bell Ltd
Other Night, The (Version of This Endris Night)
Other Wiseman, The (Written and recorded by Afterglow (Deseret Books, Date Unknown)
Our God Has Given His Son To The Earth, Fred Kaan (born 1929) © 1968 Stainer & Bell Ltd
Out Of The East (Harry Noble, copyright 1940)
Out Of Your Sleep Arise and Wake (Rickert; Alternate Title: Arise and Wake)
Out Of Youre Slepe Arise And Wake (Chambers & Sidgwick)
Out of the blosme sprang a thorn (Wright, 1856)
Out Of The Blossom Sprang A Thorn (Rickert)
Over The River And Through The Wood - Grandfather & Thanksgiving Day - The Original Version with the title: "The New-England Boy's Song About Thanksgiving Day"
Over The River And Through The Woods - Grandmother & Christmas Day
Over The River And Through The Woods (Grandma’s Version – Humor)
Over The River And Through The Woods (Over The River Comes Santa Claus – Humor)
Over Yonder's A Park (A Corpus Christi Carol)
Past Three A Clock (Alternate Title: Past Three O'Clock)
Pat A Pan – Version 1
Pat A Pan – Version 2
Pat A Pan – Version 3 (Translation by Keyte and Parrott, editors of The New Oxford Book of Carols, copyright 1992)
Pat A Pan - Version 4 (Willie Take Your Little Drum, From John Brush's 1988 The Children's Book of Carols)
Patapan (From Terry's Two Hundred Folk Carols)
Pat A Pan – (French: Guillo Pran Ton Tamborin)
Peace Carol, The (Bob Beers, copyright 1965)
Peace Child (Advent) - Shirley Erena Murray (opens in a new window at an exterior site)
Peace is Born on Earth (Link opens in a new window at Sally DeFord Music)
Peace On Earth/Little Drummer Boy (Bing Crosby And David Bowie, Arrangement Copyright 1977); I have been advised that this arrangement was never published.
Peace On Earth - Thos. Jarmon (First Line: Behold the grace appears)
Peace, Peace, Peace (Link opens in a new window at Sally DeFord Music)
Peaceful Night, All Things Sleep (Translation by Edward Thring, ca. 1887); “Holy night! Long watch keep”)
Peaceful Night, Hallowed Night (Translator unknown; "All around, sleep profound")
The Peasant's Pilgrimage (First Line: Tu-re-lu-re-lu! The cock doth crow)
People, Look East (Words: Eleanor Farjeon (1881-1965), 1928)
Pine Cones And Holly Berries (Meredith Willson
From the musical production "Here's Love"
Copyright 1963, rev. 1991)
Please Come Home For Christmas (Written by Charles Mose Brown and Gene C. Redd; Recorded in 1947 by Charles Brown and numerous others. Copyright)
Pocket Chant, The - Humor
Poor and Quiet (Link opens in a new window at Sally DeFord Music)
Poor Little Jesus (Words and Music by Paul Campbell, copyright 1951)
Praise (First Line: All join in praise and loudly sing)
Praise to God, Whose Holy Spirit (Marnie Barrell, copyright 1995)
Pray Remember The Poor; please also see Now Winter Is Come
Pretty Paper (Words and Music: Willie Nelson, copyright 1962)
The Prince of Life (First Line: Come, let us lift our hearts and voice)
Proface, Welcom, Well Come (Middle English from Sandys)
Promised Savior, Promised King (Link opens in a new window at Sally DeFord Music)
Psallite unigenito (What if an Infant small be cradled in the stall)
Puer Nobis Natus Est (Be glad, lordinges, bethe more and lesse)
Quand Dieu naquit à Noël (French, from William Sandys, 1833)
Queen Of Heaven, Blessed May Thou Be (Alternate Title: Virgo, Rosa Virginum, Tum Precor Filium)
The Quest Of The Three Kings (First Line: From Silver Gates Of Ecbatoun)
Rachel, Weeping For Her Children - The Holy Innocents
Real Meaning Of Christmas (Written by Joseph W. Pace II, copyright 1996, performed by the Colorado Mass Choir; it is found on the 1996 CD "The Real Meaning of Christmas"; link opens in a new window at Amazon.com)
Redeemer Of The Nations, Come (Translation of Veni, Redemptor Gentium by Charles P. Price Is Copyright)
Redeemer of the Nations, Come – Translator Unknown
Redeemer of the Nations, Come - Catherine Winkworth Translation
Rejoice, The Lord Is King!, The Original from Charles Wesley
Rejoice, Rejoice, This Happy Morn (Os Er Idag En Frelser Fodt)
Remember, O Thou Man - Version 1
Righteous Joseph (When righteous Joseph wedded was)
Ring Bells, Ring, Ding, Dong, Ding (Germany - Kling Glökchen)
Ring Out The Bells For Christmas (From Chope with lyric and music attribution to William Augustine Ogden)
Ring Out The Bells For Christmas (From Hutchins with lyrics attribution to Rev. E. A. Washburn; three musical settings)
Ring The Bells Of Bethlehem! Fred Pratt Green 1903-2000 © 1980 Stainer & Bell Ltd
Ring The Joyful Christmas Bells (Alternate Title: In A Manger Lies The Child)
Ring, Christmas Bells (Words: Minna Louise Hohman, copyright 1947; Music: "Carol of the Bells" by Peter J. Wilhousky, copyright 1936)
Ring, Little Bells (Germany - Kling Glökchen Kling)
Ring, Ring, Ye Bells; Words by Anna McClintock and Music by Adam Geibel
Rise Up, Shepherd, And Follow – Version 1
Rise Up, And Follow – Version 2
Riu, Riu, Chiu - English, Spanish and Esperanto versions at the web site of Gene Keyes (opens in a new window at an exterior site).
River (Joni Mitchell, copyright)
Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree (Notes only; Words & Music by Johnny Marks, copyright 1958)
Rocking Carol, The – Version 1 ("Jesus, Jesus, Little One," Translator Unknown)
Rocking Carol, The – Version 2 ("Little Jesus, Sweetly Sleep;" Translation by Percy Dearmer)
Rocking Carol, The – Version 3 ("Jesus, Jesus, Baby Dear," Translation by George K. Evans, copyright 1963)
Rocking Carol, The – (Original Czech Lyrics: Hajej, Nynej, Jezisku)
Round Orange, Round Orange, You Serve As A Sign, Elizabeth Cosnett (born 1936)© 1992 Stainer & Bell Ltd. A Christingle carol.
Rouse Ye, Shepherds (Walter Ehret, Copyright 1967)
Royal Day That Chasest Gloom - Neale, Carols for Christmas-tide
Royal Day That Chasest Gloom - Neale, Medieval Hymns
Royal Day That Chasest Gloom - Woodward, The Cowley Carol Book
Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer (Notes only; Words & Music by John D. Marks, copyright 1949)
Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer (Belle Of The Ball – Humor)
Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer (Iron The Red Atom Molecule - Humor)
Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer (Rudolph … As Written By The IRS – Humor)
Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer (Rudolph … Used To Have A Steady Job – Humor)
Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer (Simpson's Version – Humor)
Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer (Uh Oh We’re In The Red, Dear – Humor)
Note: There are a large number of parodies of Rudolph. However, many of them do not fit the criteria for inclusion on this web site. For more information about this criteria, see the FAQ.
Run, Rudolph, Run (Marvin Lee Brodie & John D. Marks; Alternate Title: Run Run Rudolph)
St. Gabriel Came To Mary - The Annunciation
Saint Stephen Was A Holy Man - Version 1 (Gilbert)
Saint Stephen Was An Holy Man - Version 2 (Sandys)
St. Nicholas, Good Holy Man (Dutch: Sinterklaas, Goed Heilig Man)
The Salutation Carol (Alternate Title: Nowell, Nowell, Nowell, Nowell; First Line: Tidings true there be come new)
Salvator mundi Domine - Thomas Wright, 1847 (four verses)
Salvator mundi, Domine - Edith Rickert (four verses)
Salvator mundi, Domine - Thomas Wright, 1856 (five verses)
Salvator mundi, Domine - Edith Rickert (five verses)
Same Old Auld Lang Syne (Dan Fogelberg, copyright)
Sans Day Carol (Alternate Title: Now The Holly Bears a Berry)
Santa Baby (Words and Music: Joan Javits Zeeman, Phil Springer and Tony Springer, copyright 1953)
Santa, Bring My Baby Back (To Me) (Words and Music: Claude DeMetrius and Aaron Schroeder, copyright 1957)
Santa Claus (Humor, to the tune of Rocket Man)
Santa Claus (It Must've Been Ol’) (Words and Music By Harry Connick, Jr., copyright 1993)
Santa Claus Is Back In Town (Words and Music by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, copyright 1957)
Santa Claus Is Coming To Town (Words & Music by J. Fred Coots and Henry Gillespie, 1932; Notes)
Santa Claus Is Coming To Town (Christmas Time Is Coming Round – Humor)
Santa Claus Is Coming To Town (Gil Amelio’s Coming To Town! – Humor)
Santa Claus Is Coming To Town (Outlet Mall – Humor)
Santa Claus Is Coming To Town (Sam & Roz Are Coming to Town – Humor; copyright by MAD Magazine, late 1970s)
Santa Claus Is Coming To Town (Santa Claus Is Tapping Your Phone [How Santa Knows If You’ve Been Good] – Humor)
Santa Claus Is Coming To Town (Santa Claus Is Watching For DUIs - Humor)
Santa Claus Is Coming To Town (The Chemistry Teacher's Coming to Town - Humor
Santa Claus Is Watching You (Ray Stevens, copyright)
The Santa Claus Rock (Pearlman & Thomson, copyright 2002)
Santa Claus, Indiana, USA (Words and Music: Abe Olman and Al Jacobs, copyright 1959)
Santa’s Beard (They Might Be Giants)
Santa's Beard (Words and Music by Brian Wilson and Mike Love, copyright 1964)
Savior Eternal! (Health and Life of the World)
Savior Of The Nations, Come (Version 1; Translation of the Latin Veni, Redemptor gentium)
Savior Of The Nations, Come (Version 2)
Saviour Of The Nations, Come (Pre-1908 translation from the Moravian Church)
Savior Of The Nations, Come (German, Nun Komm, Der Heiden Heiland translation of the Latin, Veni, Redemptor gentium)
The Saviour's Birth (Hark! Hark! What news the angels bring)
Saviour’s Day (Words and Music by Chris Eaton, Date Unknown)
Saviour's Day - Cliff Richard, Copyright 1990.
Say You This Pagan Mistletoe, Fred Pratt Green (1903-2000) © 1980 Stainer & Bell Ltd
Scrooge (Words and Music: Paul Williams, From the Muppet Christmas Carol, copyright 1992)
Search For Lodging, The (Mexico - Pedida de la Posada)
Seaventh chapter of Isai - Thomas Wright
Secret Birth (Lyrics by Bishop Timothy Dudley-Smith)
Secret of Christmas (Words: Sammy Cahn, Music: Edward Chester Babcock, circa 1959)
Seaventh chapter of Isai - Thomas Wright
See Amid The Winter’s Snow (Bramley and Stainer; Alternate Titles: See In Yonder Manger Low and Hymn for Christmas Day)
See The Glory, More Than Glimmer, Andrew E Pratt (born 1948) © Stainer & Bell Ltd
See the Word Our Flesh Become | Verbum caro factum est
See, The Morning Star is Dwelling - Version 1
See! The Morning Star Is Dwelling (Alternate Title: Morning Star, The ) - Version 2
Set the Sun Dancing (A Song for Epiphany) (Epiphany) - Shirley Erena Murray (opens in a new window at an exterior site)
Seven Joys Of Mary, The - Version 1 (Compare: The First Good Joy Our Mary Had)
The Seven Rejoices Of Mary - RR Terry
Seven Virgins, The - Version 2 (All under the leaves, the leaves of life)
Seÿt Steuene Was A Clerk (A Carol For St. Stephen's Day; Middle English)
Shake Me I Rattle (Words and Music: Hal Hackady and Charles Naylor, Date Unknown)
She May Be Called A Sovereign Lady (Rickert; First Line: A maid peerless hath born God's Son)
She May Be Called A Sovereign Lady (Chambers & Sidgwick)
She May Be Callyd A Souerant Lady (Flügel and Imelmann)
Sheep and Shepherds (Quem pastores laudavere, Lyrics Translated by Malcolm Williamson, b.1931, copyright 1988)
Shepherd, Leave Thy Sheep (Link opens in a new window at Sally DeFord Music)
The Shepherd Upon A Hill He Sat (Weston)
The Shepard Vpon A Hill He Satt (Flügel)
The Shepherds (Words and Music: Peter Cornelius; translator unknown; Alternate Title: Shepherds Watching Their Sheep. From Hutchins)
The Shepherds - Henry Vaughan (From Silex Scintillans)
The Shepherds (By Henry Vaughan; Alternate Title: Silex Scintillans; From Rickert)
Shepherds, Words and Music by Bruce Cockburn, from his CD Christmas (copyright 1993); link opens in external site
Shepherds Came, Their Praises Bringing (Translation of Quem Pastores Laudavere by George B. Caird)
Shepherds Keeping Watch By Night (Rodda, 1872)
Shepherds Keeping Watch By Night (Pickard-Cambridge, 1926)
Shepherds Left Their Flocks A-Straying, Imogen Holst
Shepherds Sang Their Praises O'er Him, Translation by Keyte and Parrott, The New Oxford Book of Carols, copyright 1992
Shepherds Watching Their Sheep (Words and Music: Peter Cornelius; translator unknown; Alternate Title: The Shepherds)
Shepherds Went Their Hasty Way, The - Coleridge
Shepherds Went Their Hasty Way, The, - Coleridge, Alt. (Alternate Title: A Christmas Carol)
The Shepherds Went Their Hasty Way - Terry, "Two Hundred Folk Carols"
Shepherds, Rejoice! Lift Up Your Eyes - Version 1
Shepherds, Rejoice! Lift Up Your Eyes - Version 2
Shepherds, What Fragrance (Hugh Keyte and Andrew Parrott, copyright, 1992; French: Quelle est cette odeur agréable)
Shepherds! Shake Off Your Drowsy Sleep (French Lyrics: "Berger, Secoue Ton Sommeil Profond")
The Shepherd’s Carol (Round)
Shepherd's Song, The (First Line: Shepherds Five In A Ring)
Shepherd's Song, The (First Line: Sweet Music, sweeter far)
Shepherd’s Rocking Carol (Czech: Hajej, Nynej, Jezisku), Translated by Elizabeth Poston, copyright, 1965
Shout Aloud Oh Lovely Zion" (Title: Hail the King! - Murray)
Shout The Glad Tidings (Alternate Title: Shout the Glad Tidings, Exultingly Sing)
Shropshire Wakes, or Hey for Christmas
Silence, Strange Sounds Are In The Earth. ("The Warning and the Invitation") - A Communion Hymn For Advent
Silent Night, Holy Night - Notes
Silent Night, Hallow'd Night! (Translator and Date Unknown; "Earth is hushed, Heav'n a-light!")
Silent Night, Hallowed Night (Translation by J. F. Warner, 1849; "Land and deep silent sleep")
Silent Night! Hallowed Night! (Translator unknown, ca. 1887; "Silent sleep, calm and deep")
Silent Night, Holiest Night (Translation by C. T. Brooks; 1884; "Moonbeams form silvery light")
Silent Night, Holiest Night (Translation by Paul Gallico (1897-1976), "The Story of Silent Night," 1967)
Silent Night, Holiest Night (Translation by Rev. Dr. Alfred Edersheim (1825-1889); Date Unknown; "All asleep, lonely light")
Silent Night, Holy Night (7 O'Clock News, Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel, copyright)
Silent Night! Holy Night! (Translation by William Tidd Matson, ca. 1887).
Silent Night, Holy Night (Also "Silent night, sacred night"; Translator unknown; "Bethlehem sleeps yet what light")
Silent Night, Holy Night (English Translation by Bishop John Freeman Young, prior to 1859, plus the translation of verses 3, 4, and 5 by William C. Egan, 2006; "All is calm, all is bright"). Also see: Silent Night, Holy Night (English translation of all six German verses that is being distributed by the tourist office in Oberndorf, Austria; the Young and Egan translations in the order corresponding to the original carol)
Silent Night, Holy Night (Free Translation by Huge Keyte and Andrew Parrott, The New Oxford Book of Carols, 1992).
Silent Night, Holy Night (French, "Douce Nuit! Sainte Nuit!")
Silent Night, Holy Night (Joyous Christmas! Holy Christmas!, English Translation of Glade jul, hellige jul! from Mike and Else's Norwegian Songbook (Bloomington, MN: Skandisk, 1985).
Silent Night, Holy Night (Latin, "Silens Nox, Sacra Nox")
Silent Night, Holy Night (Latin, "Silens Nox, Sancta Nox")
Silent Night, Holy Night (Latin, "Tranquilla Nox! Sancta Nox!")
Silent Night, Holy Night (Moravian Church, Translator Unknown; pub. 1902; "Slumber reigns! Naught in sight!")
Silent Night, Holy Night (Norwegian, "Glade jol," Translation by T. B. S. Ingemann (1850) and O. Bernt Støylen (1905)
Silent Night, Holy Night (Norwegian, "Glade jul, dejlige jul," Translation by T. B. S. Ingemann, 1850)
Silent Night, Holy Night (Norwegian, "Glade jul, hellige jul," Said to be a translation by H. A. Brorson, but also attributed to T. B. S. Ingemann)
Silent Night, Holy Night (Norwegian, "Stille Natt - Heilage Natt!," translation by Erik Hillestad, 1991)
Silent Night, Holy Night (Norwegian, "Stille Natt! Heilage Natt!," Translator And Date Unknown)
Silent Night, Holy Night (Silent Mac, Broken Mac – Humor)
Silent Night Holy Night (Translation by A. C. Chapin; pub. 1898, "In the gloom shines a light")
Silent Night, Holy Night (Translated by Bettina Klein; "Round yon godly tender pair"; date unknown)
Silent Night, Holy Night (Translation by David Willcocks, copyright circa 1970).
Silent Night, Holy Night (Translation by Elizabeth Poston, The Penguin Book of Carols, copyright 1965)
Silent Night, Holy Night (Translation by Frank Petersohn, 1997; "All's asleep, one sole light"; Source: English Lyrics by Frank, 1997, Stille Nacht Info (English))
Silent Night, Holy Night - Hakes (Translation by Dr. Steve H. Hakes © 2015; Used with permission.)
Silent Night, Holy Night (Translation by G. B. Timms, The New English Hymnal, #35, 1986.)
Silent Night, Holy Night (Translation by W. G. Rothery; "Starry skies beaming bright")
Silent Night, Holy Night! (Translation by W. L. Mason; 1899; "All is held in slumber's might")
Silent Night, Holy Night (Translator Unknown; pub. 1883; "All men sleep, the only light")
Silent Night, holy night; old German carol, poem translated by Basil Douglas, arrangement by Leslie Woodgate. London: Ascherberg, Hopwood & Crew, Ltd. Nov. 8, 1938.
Silent Night, Peaceful Night (Translator And Date Unknown' "All things sleep, shepherds keep")
Silent Night, Peaceful Night (Translator And Date Unknown' "All things sleep, shepherds keep"). Possibly No. 17 in Carols for St. Stephen's Church, Kirkstall, Lees, 1872.
Silent Night, Shadowy Night (Marie Mason, ca 1884; "Purple dome, starry light!")
Silent Stars, The (Words and Music: John Jacob Niles, copyright 1948; First Line: The same silent stars stood still in the sky")
Silver and Gold (Words and Music by Johnny Marks, copyright 1964)
Silver Bells (Words & Music by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans, copyright 1950)
Silver Bells (Buy and Sell – Humor)
Silver Bells (Silent Labs - Humor)
Silver Bells (Silver Nitrate - Humor)
Sing a Carol for Summer (Christmas) - Shirley Erena Murray (opens in a new window at an exterior site)
Sing of Mary, Blest is She (An Annunciation Song) - Words by Rev. Vince Uher, copyright 1996
Sing Praise To God, The Greatest Good (adaptation of Sing Praise to God Who Reigns Above by the Editors, Lutheran Book of Worship, copyright 1978, Hymn 542; Sei Lob und Ehr' dem höchsten Gut)
Sing Praise to God Who Reigns Above (Francis Elizabeth Cox Translation of Sei Lob und Ehr' dem höchsten Gut - Version 1)
Sing Praise to God Who Reigns Above (Francis Elizabeth Cox Translation of Sei Lob und Ehr' dem höchsten Gut - Version 2)
Sing we to this merry company (O queen of heaven, thou sittest in thy see)
Sing with the Angels, Gloria! (Advent) - Shirley Erena Murray (opens in a new window at an exterior site)
Sing, Sing A Song of Christmas (Words and Music by Janice Kapp Perry, from her album, "Christmas, A Holiday of the Heart")
Sinless One to Jordan Came, The (George B. Timms (1910), copyright; See #120 in The Hymnal 1982; and #58 in The New English Hymnal)
The Sinners Redemption, Delaney, 1678, repr. 1851 (First line: "All you that are to mirth inclin'd") See: All You That Are To Mirth Inclined - Notes
Sinners Redemption - Roxburghe 2.422, ca. 1662-1692
The Sinners Redemption - Euing 333, ca. 1670-1700
The Sinners Redemption - Pepys 2.29, ca. 1684-1686
The Sinners Redemption - Chappell, 1874
The Sinner's Redemption - Cecil Sharp, 1911
Sion, Ope Thy Hallowed Dome (from Williams's Hymns Translated from the Parisian Breviary, 1839)
Sion, Ope Thy Hallowed Dome (Appendix, Hymnal Noted)
Sir Christmas ("I am here, Sir Christmas") - Vizetelly, 1851, with notes.
Sir Christmas (Richard R. Terry, 1933)
Six White Boomers (By Rolf Harris, Date Unknown)
Sled Zeppelin (Humor from Bob Rivers, Bob Rivers’ Twisted Tunes)
Sleep Well, Little Children (Words by Alan Bergman; Music by Leon Klatzkin, copyright 1956)
Sleep, Holy Child, on Mary's Gentle Breast (Words: © Robert J. Higginson, 2000)
Sleep, My Darling (Ninna, Nanna)
Sleep, My Little Jesus (Alternate Title: Mary’s Manger Song)
Sleep, Sleep, O Beautiful Baby (Dormi, Dormi O Bel Bambin, Traditional Italian)
Sleepin' Little Jesus (Alternate Titles: Polish Carol or Polish Lullaby, Lulajze Jezuniu)
Sleepers, Wake! A Voice Astounds Us (Translation of Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme by Carl P. Daw, Jr. (1944-), copyright; See #61 and 62 in The Hymnal 1982)
Sleepers, Wake! A Voice Is Calling (Translation of Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme by W. Ball)
Sleepers, Wake! The Watch-Cry Pealeth (Translation of Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme by Frances E. Cox)
Sleigh Ride (Music by Leroy Anderson, 1948, Words by Mitchell Parrish, 1950)
Sleigh Ride (Christmas Shopping – Humor)
Slumberers, Wake, The Bridegroom Cometh! (J. H. Hopkins Translation of Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme)
Snoopy's Christmas (Performed by the Royal Guardsmen, 1960s)
Snow (Words and Music: Irving Berlin; Featured in the 1954 film White Christmas)
Snow Falls Over The Trees (Authorship Unknown)
Snow Falls Soft In The Night (German: Leise rieselt der Schnee)
Snow Miser’s Song, The (from the Rankin-Bass TV Production "The Year Without Santa Claus," copyright 1974)
So Happy All The Day (Alternate Title: Bethlehem Shepherd-Boy's Tale, The)
So Laughing In Lap Laid (“Quid petis, O Fili?”)
So, Now Is Come Our Joyful'st Feast (Middle English)
Soft the Evening Shadows Fall (Timothy Dudley-Smith, copyright 1986)
Soft To The Manger Stealing (Title: Cradle Song of the Infant Jesus)
Some Children See Him (Alfred Burt and Wilha Huston, copyright 1954; opens in new window at the Alfred Burt Carols web site)
Someday At Christmas (Stevie Wonder, copyright)
Somerset Wassail - Version 1
Son Sleep (Figlio Dormi, Giovanni Girolamo Kapsburger, 1575 - 1661)
Song Of Angels, The (Words and Music by Adrian Vermeulen-Miller, copyright, used with permission; for more Vermeulen-Miller carols, please visit New Hope Music)
Song of Mary (Translation and adaptation of the Magnificat; translator unknown)
Soon The Hoar Old Year Will Leave Us (see Deck The Hall With Holly)
Soon Shall That Voice Resound - The Wedding Supper - Henrietta
Joan Fry
Soon Will
The Heavenly Bridegroom Come - Benjamin Hall Kennedy
Soren Banjomus (Danish Original: Soren Banjomus)
The Splendour (First Line: Behold what splendour, hear that shout!)
The Splendour of God's Truth - Words by Rev. Vince Uher, copyright 2002
Star Carol, The (Alfred Burt and Wilha Huston, copyright 1954; opens in new window at the Alfred Burt Carols web site)
Star Carol, The (Canzone d’I Zampognari) (English Lyric and Musical Adaptation by Peter Seeger, copyright 1952, renewed 1980)
Star Of Bethlehem (Lo! the eastern sages rise)
Star of Bethlehem (Lo! The Eastern magi rise)
The Star Of Bethlehem - Version 1 (I think of that star of long ago)
The Star Of Bethlehem - Version 2 (It was the eve of Christmas)
The Star of Bethlehem (Link opens in a new window at Sally DeFord Music)
Star Of The East (Translation of Stern über Bethleh'm)
Star Of The East (Southern Harmony and Reginald Heber; first line: Hail, the blest morn, see the great Mediator)
Star of the East, Whose Beacon Light (Christmas Carols 1833)
Star-Child (Advent) - Shirley Erena Murray (opens in a new window at an exterior site)
Stars Were Gleaming (Translation of W zlobie lezy)
Step Into Christmas (Lyrics by Bernie Taupin, Music by Elton John; Performed by Elton John and released as a UK single in November, 1973)
Still, Still, Still – Version 1 (Original Austrian lyrics)
Still, Still, Still – Version 2
Still, Still, Still – Version 3
Still, Still, Still (Hush, Hush, Hush)
Still, Still, Still (Tom Parker and Amy Vanmeenen, Date Unknown)
Still the night, Holy the night (Translation by Rev. Stopford A. Brooke, 1881; "Sleeps the world, yet the light")
Still The Night, Holy The Night (Anonymous adaptation of the Brooke translation; "Sleeps the world, hid from sight")
Stilly Night, Holy Night (Translation by Emily E. S. Elliott, ca. 1858)
Stilly Night! Starry and Bright! (Translation by Dean Farrar; pub. 1903)
Such A Calm Stillness Envelops The Night, Alan Gaunt (born 1935) © Stainer & Bell Ltd
Suddenly (Written by Fred Hammond, Kim Rutherford, and Noel Hall, copyright 1996, performed by Various Artists; it is found on the 1996 CD "The Real Meaning of Christmas"; link opens in a new window at Amazon.com)
Summer Sun or Winter Skies (Christmas) - Shirley Erena Murray (opens in a new window at an exterior site)
Susani (Alternate Title: From heaven on high, the angels sing)
Susanni (Alternate Title: A Little Child There Is Ybore)
Sussex Carol – Version 1 (Also Known As On Christmas Night True Christians Sing)
Sussex Carol – Version 2 (Also Known As On Christmas Night True Christians Sing)
Sussex Carol – Version 3 (Also Known As On Christmas Night True Christians Sing)
Sussex Carol – Version 4 (Also Known As On Christmas Night True Christians Sing)
Suzy Snowflake (Words and Music by Sid Tepper and Roy C. Bennett, copyright 1951)
Sweet Flowerets of the Martyr Band - Version 1
Sweet Jesus (On Christmas day in the morn)
Sweet Little Jesus Boy (Words and Music: Robert MacGimsey, 1932)
Sweet Little Jesus Child (Written by Percy Bady, copyright 1996, performed by Kim Rutherford; it is found on the 1996 CD "The Real Meaning of Christmas"; link opens in a new window at Amazon.com)
Sweet Musicke, Sweeter Farre (Middle English)
Swelling O'er The Mountains (Alternate Title: O'er The Mountains)
Synfull man thou art vnkynde (Middle English; retyped in Old Blackletter)
Take Me Back To Toyland (Words by Kal Mann; Music by Bernie Lowe, 1955)
Take Me Home For Christmas (Written and performed by Debra Gibson, Date Unknown)
Te Harinui ("Great Joy"), Willow Macky, copyright 1957. Link opens in a new window at an exterior site.
Tell Out, My Soul (Lyrics by Timothy Dudley-Smith, copyright)
Tell Us, Thou Cleere And Heavenly Tongue (Middle English)
Terly Terlow, Terly Terlow (About the feld they piped full right)
Tennessee Christmas (Words and Music by Amy Grant and Gary Chapman, 1983; link open in a new window at the website of Amy Grant)
Thanks For Christmas (XTC)
That Christmas Feeling (Bennie Benjamin and George Weiss, copyright 1946)
That Day Of Wrath, That Dreadful Day - Scott Translation
That Day of Wrath, That Dreadful Day - Wingfield Translation
That Little Boy (Praise To The Boy)
That Rage Whereof The Psalm Doth Say (A Carol For The Holy Innocents)
That’s What I Want For For Christmas (Words by Irving Caesar, Music by Gerald Marks, copyright 1936)
The Babe Is Born in Bethlehem - From Pettman
First Christmas in Love (Words and Music by Janice Kapp Perry)
The First Christmas Night (Alternate Title: I Should Like To Have Heard)
The First Christmas Song (Beautiful song of Christmas! | Sung in the long ago)
The First Cradle Song (Swing softly, bells, on Christmas morn)
Fyfe's Noel ("The First Noel An Angel Sung")
The Fyrst day of yole have we in mynd, The (Middle English)
The First Day Of Yule (Modern Version)
The First Good Joy That Mary Had (Alternate Title: The First Good Joy Our Mary Had)
The First Nowell - Version 1 (Alternate Title: The First Noel)
The First Nowell - Version 2 (Alternate Title: The First Noel)
The First Nowel - Version 3 (Alternative Title: The First Noel)
The First Noel An Angel Sung ('Fyfe's Noel' from Terry)
The First Nowell (The First Novell - Humor)
The Light, the Christmas Light (Christmas) - Shirley Erena Murray (opens in a new window at an exterior site)
The Lord At First Did Adam Make (From Davies Gilbert)
The Lord At First Had Adam Made (from William Sandys, compare A Carol for Christmas Eve from Bramley and Stainer)
The Shepherd Upon A Hill He Sat (Weston)
The Shepard Vpon A Hill He Satt (Flügel)
The Three Drovers, Words by John Wheeler, Music by William G. James. Copyright 1948. Link opens in a new window at an external site. From "Five Australian Carols; First Set." The pair also collaborated on "Five Australian Carols; Second Set" (1954) and "Five Australian Carols; Third Set" (1961).
The Three Kings (Alternate Title: I Would Now Sing For And I Might; Hutchins)
The Three Kings - Version 2 (Now is Christmas i-come; Husk)
The Three Kings - Version 3 (Now is the time of Christmas come; Sylvestre)
The Three Kings (Based on a Flemish Carol; First line: Late, three wise Kings afar off did go)
The World's Desire (First Line: The Christ-Child Lay On Mary's Lap)
Thee, O Immanuel, We Praise (Trans. By Catherine Winkworth of Wir Singen Dir Immanuel, Paul Gerhardt, 1653)
Then We Go 'Round 'Bout A Juniperbush (Traditional Norwegian, Så går vi rundt om en enebærbusk; Translation by Christian Stubø)
There Came A Little Child To Earth (Also Known As Christmas) - Version 1
There Came A Little Child To Earth - Version 2
There Came a Little Child To Earth - Version 3
There Came Three Kings (By God's Own Hand)
There Is A Blossom Sprung Of A Thorn; compare Ther ys a blossum sprong of A thorn
There Is A Child Born Of Our Blessed Virgin (Gloria Tibi Domine)
There Is A Child Of Mary Born (See: Ther Ys A Chylde Borne Of Mary)
There Is A Flower Sprung From A Tree (Weston)
Ther Ys A Flowr Sprong Of A Tre (Dyboski from Balliol 254-Richard Hill Commonplace Book)
There is a floure sprung of a tree (Chambers & Sidgwick)
There Is No Child So Small (Carol of the Least Child) (Christmas) - Shirley Erena Murray (opens in a new window at an exterior site)
There Is No Christmas Like A Home Christmas (Words by Carl Sigman, Music by Mickey J. Addy, copyright 1950)
There Was Silence In Bethlehem's Fields That Night - A Song of the First Christmas Night
There Within a Stable (Link opens in a new window at Sally DeFord Music)
There's A New Kid In Town (Written by Curly Putnam, Don Cook, & Keith Whitley, Date Unknown, Performed by Trisha Yearwood)
There’s A Song In The Air (Alternate Title: There’s A Star In The Sky!)
There's A Voice In The Wilderness Crying (Words By James Lewis Milligan, Copyright 1930)
They've Taken Christ Out Of Christmas (Words: George Leon Pike, Sr.; Copyright 1996 by Betty M. Pike; Link opens in new window at Jesus Christ's Eternal Kingdom of Abundant Life)
Thirty-Two Feet And Eight Little Tails
Thie Conceptioun of Christ (Lat vs reioyis and sing)
This Babe To Us Now Is Born (Segar, 1915)
This Babe To Vs Now Is Born (Flügel, 1903)
This Babe To Us That Now Is Born (Rickert, 1911); see Now Unto Us A Babe Is Born (Weston)
This Carol We Will Gladly Sing, Fred Pratt Green (1903-2000) © 1974 Stainer & Bell Ltd
This Christmas (Authorship and Date Unknown; Performed by Donny Hathaway)
This Day (First Line: An heavenly song, I dare well say)
This Day Is Born Emmanuel - From Hutchins
This Day Is Born Emmanuel (En natus est Emanuel) - From Terry
This Endernight I Saw A Sight - Rickert; Burden: "Ah, my dear Son," said Mary, "ah, my dear,
This Enders Night - Terry, Two Hundred Folk Carols
This Endris Night - Version 1; First verse: This lovely lady sat and sang; with sheet music
This Endnes Nyght - Sandys in Middle English; Burden: A, My Dere Son, from Sandys, 1833
This Endris Night - Version 2 - Husk; First verse: This lovely lady sat and sang; with sheet music
Thys endris nyghth - Thomas Wright; First verse: This lovely lady sat and song
This Endris Night I Saw A Sight - Chambers & Sidgwick; First verse: This lovely lady sat and song
Thys Ender Nyzth - Flügel from Ms. Royal App. 58.
This Endes Night I Saw A Sight - Bullen
This Is The Night Of His Coming To Earth, Fred Pratt Green (1903-2000) © 1974 Stainer & Bell Ltd
This Is The Night (Also Known As The Mexican Carol; Compare Friends Now Joyfully Gather)
This Is The Time (Words and Music: Michael Bolton and G. Hurr; From Michael Bolton's CD titled "This Is The Time - The Christmas Album")
This New Christmas Carol - Gilbert, 1823 (Version 1)
This New Christmas Carrol - Sandys, 1833 (Version 2)
This One’s For The Children (Words and Music: Maurice Star: copyright 1989; performed by "New Kids On The Block")
This Rose is Railed on a Ryse (aka Of a Rose singe we)
This Season Will Never Grow Old (Words and Music by Rita MacNeil, copyright 1988; link opens at Rita MacNeil's Home Page)
This Time Of Year (Words and Music by Cliff Owens and Jesse Hollis, 1958)
This was the tenour of her talkynge (Middle English; retyped in Old Blackletter)
Thou Green and Glittering Tree, Good Day! (Norwegian: Du grønne glitrende tre, goddag!)
Thou holy daughter of Sion (Novus Sol de virgine)
Thou Who Wast Rich Beyond All Splendour (Frank Houghton (1894-1972), copyright)
Though Poor Be The Chamber (Alternate Title: Nazareth)
Three Kings' Song (First Line: The Magi came out of the Orient Land)
Three Kings From Persian Lands Afar (Free translation of German: Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern)
Three Kings Found The Lord. (Words and Music: Michael McLeann (1952-), The Forgotten Carols (Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret Book Co., 1991, rev. 2003). Links open at exterior sites.
The Three Ships (Alfred Noyes, copyright)
Though They Cannot Palter | Ecce quod natura
Through Winter Cold (A Winter Song) - Shirley Erena Murray (opens in a new window at an exterior site)
Thy Little Ones, Dear Lord, Are We (Norwegian: Her Kommer Dine Arme Smaa)
Thys Ender Nyzth - Flügel from Ms. Royal App. 58.
Tidings I Bring You For To Tell (Husk, 1868; Compare Tydynges I Bryng 3ow For To Tell (Wright, 1847)
Tidings, People, Take Good Heed (Alternate Title: Welcome Be Our Heavenly King)
Til The Season Comes Round Again (Words and Music by John Jarvis and Randy Goodrum, 1993; From A Christmas To Remember, Amy Grant)
'Tis Christmas Day - Oliver Murray Edwards
'Tis Christmas Day - S. Archer Gibson
'Tis The Day, The Blessed Day (Alternate Title: Noel, Noel)
To All The Earth (Croatia - Zvim Na Zemlji Mir)
To Christ's Own Darling (Segar)
To Earth Descending, Word Sublime (Latin: Verbum supernum prodiens)
To euery man that is vnkynde (Middle English; retyped in Old Blackletter)
To Him Whom The Shepherd Praised (Words: Quem pastores laudavere, Translator: Ian Bradley, The Penguin Book of Carols, copyright 1992)
To Shepherds As They Watched By Night (German, Vom Himmel kam der Engel Schar)
To The Now Cristes Derlyng (Fehr)
To The Now Cristis Dere Derlyng (Fuller Maitland, Middle English)
To the now, Crystys der derlyng (Wright)
To Ye Now Crystes Own Derlyng (Flügel)
To Thee Now, Christës Dear Darling (Fuller Maitland, Modern English)
To Thee Now, Christ's Dear Darling (Rickert)
To Christ's Own Darling (Segar)
To Thine Altar’s Shadow Flying ("The Morning Sacrifice") - For The Circumcision, January 1
To Us A Little Child Is Born - From a Dutch Carol
To Us Is Born A Little Child - Version 1
Tomorrow Christ Is Coming, Fred Kaan (born 1929) © 1968 Stainer & Bell Ltd. (Advent or Christmas)
Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day (with Sandys' Notes)
Tother Day In Mid-Winter (For St. Stephen)
Toy Sack (Humor from Bob Rivers, Bob Rivers’ Twisted Tunes)
Traveler (Words and Music by Ralph Merrifield, copyright 1974, used with permission; for more Merrifield carols, please visit New Hope Music)
Troublesome Carol (The Christmas Child Is a Troublesome Child) (Christmas) - Shirley Erena Murray (opens in a new window at an exterior site)
The Truth Sent From Above (from A Good Christmas Box)
The Truth Sent From Above (from Cecil Sharp)
'Twas The Night Before Christmas (Poem by Clement Clarke Moore or Henry Livingston, public domain; Music by Frank Henri Klickman, copyright 1951; Music by Ken Darby, copyright 1945)
Twelfe Night (Alternate Title: Now, Now The Mirth Comes)
The Twelve Apostles (When Jesus Christ had lived; From Sharp, with sheet music)
The Twelve Apostles (When Jesus Christ had lived; From A Good Christmas Box)
The Twelve Apostles (Come, I will sing to you)
The Twelve Days Of Christmas, The – Version 1 (Mirth Without
Mischief, ca. 1780, with notes);
See:
Notes on the Twelve Days of Christmas
The Twelve Days of Christmas - Version 2 (Sabine Baring-Gould, 1889)
The Twelve Days of Christmas - Version 3 (Cecil J. Sharp, 1916, with notes)
Twelve Days Of Christmas, The (Cat Lover's Christmas – Humor)
Twelve Days Of Christmas, The (The 12 Bugs Of Christmas, Version 1 – Humor)
Twelve Days Of Christmas, The (The Twelve Bugs Of Christmas, Version 2 – Humor)
Twelve Days Of Christmas, The (The Twelve Cat Daydreams At Christmas – Humor)
Twelve Days Of Christmas, The (The Twelve Computerized Days Of Christmas – Humor)
Twelve Days Of Christmas, The (The Twelve Computing Days Of Christmas -- 1994 – Humor)
Twelve Days Of Christmas, The (The Twelve Costs Of Christmas – Humor)
Twelve Days Of Christmas, The (The Twelve Days After Christmas - Humor)
Twelve Days Of Christmas, The (The Twelve Days Of "Cats"Mas – Humor)
Twelve Days Of Christmas, The (The Twelve Days Of Chemistry - Humor)
Twelve Days Of Christmas, The (The Twelve Days Of Christmas - Politically Correct – Humor)
Twelve Days Of Christmas, The (The Twelve Days Of Christmas, Deconstructed – Humor)
Twelve Days Of Christmas, The (The Twelve Days Of Fast Food – Humor)
Twelve Days Of Christmas, The (The Twelve Days Of Technology Before Christmas – Humor)
Twelve Days Of Christmas, The (The Twelve Days Of Texas – Humor)
Twelve Days Of Christmas, The (The Twelve Days Of Windows 95 – Humor)
Twelve Days Of Christmas, The (The Twelve Days Of Yule – Humor)
Twelve Days Of Christmas, The (The Twelve Gifts Of Christmas, Sherman - Humor)
Twelve Days Of Christmas, The (The Twelve Pains Of Christmas - Humor from Bob Rivers, Bob Rivers’ Twisted Tunes)
Twelve Days Of Christmas, The (The Twelve Programmer's Days Of Christmas – Humor)
Twelve Days Of Christmas, The (The Twelve Thank-You Notes Of Christmas (Agnes To John) – Humor)
Twelve Days Of Christmas, The (The Twelve Thank-You Notes Of Christmas (Cajun Style) – Humor)
Twelve Days Of Christmas, The (The Twelve Thank-You Notes Of Christmas (Emily To Edward) – Humor)
Twelve Days Of Christmas, The (The Twelve Vendor Days Of Christmas – Humor)
Twelve Points (My gift is small, a dozen of points)