Index of the Hymns and Carols of Christmas

A - B

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• 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 al of a may - Thomas Wright

• 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 in the Cradle (German: Ein Kindlein in der wiegen)

• A Baby Just Like You (Words and Music by John Denver and Joe Henry, copyright 1975)

• A Band of Angels From the Sky

• A Band of Herdsmen Tarried Late

• A blessed bird, as I you say

• A Bone, God Wot!

• A bonne! God wote - Thomas Wright

• 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 Branch So Fair Has Blossomed

• 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 Christmas At Bethlehem

• 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 Carrol for a Wassel-Bowl

• A Child For Us is Born This Day - Translator Unknown

• 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 So Sweet

• 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 by Howard Glover

• 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 Carol

• A Cradle Hymn (Watts, 1715; Alternate 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 Day, A Day Of Glory

• A Day, Bright Day of Glory

• A Day, Bright of Glory

• A Dialogue Between Dives and Lazarus

• A Dossen of Points - Wright

• A Douzen of Points - Pepysian

• A Douzen of Points - Roxburgh

• A Dozen of Points - Euing 126

• A Dread Hath Come On Me

• A Fair And Godly Flower I Know

• A ferly thyng it is to mene - Thomas Wright (1847)

• A Few More Years Shall Roll

• A Galley Will I Build Me

• A Glorious Voice Sounds Through The Night

• A Glorious Star From Heav'n Appeared

• A Great And Mighty Wonder - Version 1

• A Great and Mighty Wonder – Version 2

• A Great and Mighty Wonder – Version 3

• A Heavenly Voice And Early Ray

• 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 Hymn for Martyrs Sweetly Sing

• A Hymn of the Nativity - Sung By The Shepherds

• 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 La Nanita Nana

• A Lady That Was So Fair And Bright

• A Little Child Came Yester Morning

• A Little Child Is Born Tonight

• A Little Child The Savior Came

• A Little Child There Is Ybore (Alternate Title: Susanni)

• A Little Child There Is Yborn (Also: Gloria Tibi, Domine)

• A Little Ship Was On The Sea

• A Lost and Sinful World to Save

• A Lovely Lady Sat and Sung

• A Maiden Was Adoring God The Lord

• A Man Was The Fyrst Gylt

• 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 Meteor Bright Its Wondrous Light

• A New Almanack for the Yeare of our Lorde God M.D.LXXII

• A New Carol of Our Lady (First Line: Lords and ladies all bydene)

• A New Year, A New Year, a child was yborn

• A new õer! a new õer! a chyld was i-born

• A New Yeres Gift, Intituled, A Christal Glas

• 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 Shepherd Band Their Flocks Are Bringing

• A Ship Comes Sailing Onwards

• 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 Sign Admired By Thy Redeem'd

• A Shout Of Mighty Triumph

• A Soldier’s King (Words and Music: John Barlow Jarvis and Kenny Horton, copyright 1996)

• A Song And A Carol For Christmas-tide

• A Song of Joy Unto The Lord We Sing

• A Song Of the Ivy and the Holly (Middle English, Alternate Title: Nay Iuy, Nay, Hyt Shall Not Be, I Wys)

• A Song The World Is Singing

• 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 Spotless Rose

• A Stable Lamp is Lighted (Richard Wilbur (1921-) copyright 1961)

• A Star Appeared, And Peaceful Threw

• A Star Doth Bedizen

• A Star Shines Forth In Heaven

• A Tale of the Olden Time

• A Thousand Years Have Come And Gone

• A Thrilling Voice Rings Clear and High

• A Very Merry Christmas (R. Meyers, Date Unknown)

• A Virgin Did Come

• The Virgin Unspotted - Arnold (1753)

• A Virgin Unspotted - Douce adds. 137(71) (1827)

• The Virgin Unspotted (Walters, A Good Christmas Box, 1846)

• A Virgin Unspotted (Bramley & Stainer) (ca 1860s)

• A Virgin Unspotted – Gillmann (1994)

• A Virgin Unspotted - Sharp (1911)

• 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 Purely - Douce Adds 137(45) (1826)

• A Virgin Most Pure - Sandys, 1833

• A Virgin Most Pure from Harding B 11 (3920) (Date unknown)

• A Virgin Most Blessed (Hutchins, 1916)

• A Virgin Most Pure - Poston (1970)

• A Virgin Pure, Both Meek And Mild

• A Virgin Pure, Of This Be Sure

• A Virgin Pure, This Is Full Sure

• A Voice From The Desert Comes Awful And Shrill

• A Wassail, A Wassail, A Wassail We Begin

• A Wassail, A Wassail Throughout All This Town

• A woman a mayd in thought and deede (Middle English; retyped in Old Blackletter)

• A Wondrous Child, The Virgin-born

• A Wondrous Word (First Line: As midnight hush so calm and still)

• A Year Begins Of Joy And Grace

• A Yeoman's Carol (First Line: Let Christians all with joyful mirth)

• A, a, a, a - Listeneth, lordings, both great and small

• A, a, a, a - Mary Is A Lady Bright

• About The Field They Pipëd Right (Rickert)

• About The Field They Piped Full Right (Weston)

• Abowt the fyld thei pyped full right (Wright)

• Across The Sky The Shades Of Night

• Adam And His Helpmate

• Adam lay ibounden (Chambers & Sidgwick)

• Adam lay ybounden (Rickert)

• Adam lay i-bowndyn  (Wright, 1856)

• Adam Our Fader Was In Blis

• Adam Sinned And Earned All Sorrows

• Ad cantum leticie (Alternate Title: Love and hope of heav'nly rest)

• Adeste Fideles (Wade: O Come All Ye Faithful)

• Adeste Fideles (Watts; First Line: "Lord, 'tis a pleasant thing to stand")

• Adoration

• 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)

• Advent Song

• After December Slips Away (Written by Bonnie K. Keen & Lowell Talmader Alexander, Jr., copyright 1995)

• After Man Had Broken the Presepts of the Lord

• After Mydnyght, When Dremes Dothe Fawll

• 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, Dearest Jesus, Holy Child

• Ah Man, Ah Say

• Ah, Wherefore Do The Impious Jews

• Ah! Gabriel, Ah! Gabriel

• Ah! How Humble Is Thy Birth

• Ah! Lord God, The World's Creator

• Ah! Lord, How Shall I Meet Thee

• Ah! Those Merry Christmas Chimes (Title: Christmas Chimes); Words by Mary A. McKee and Music by Pemberton Pierce

• Ah! What A Great Mystery!

• All After Pleasures As I Rid One

• All Children Are On Christmas Eve

• All Christian people pray attend (The Creation of the World)

• All Christians May Rejoice To-day

• All Glory to God in the Sky

• All Glory To God, And Peace Upon Earth

• All Glory, Jesus Christ, To Thee

• 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 The Ever Glad'ning Morn

• All Hail The Morn

• All Hail the Power of Jesus' Name

• All Hail The Star In Judah's Sky!

• All Hail To The Days (Alternate title: All Hail To The Days That Merit More Praise, and several others)

• All Hail To Thee, O Blessed Morn!

• All Hail, Ye Little Martyr Flowers

• All Hail, Ye Merry Folk Today

• All Hail Ye Infant Martyr Flowers

• All Hail! All Hail To The Natal Day

• All Heaven On A Maiden

• All Hosts, Above, Beneath

• 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 In The Silent Night

• All Is Well (Words: Wayne Kirkpatrick; Music: Michael W. Smith; copyright date: TBD)

• All Jubilant With Psalm And Hymn

• All My Heart This Night Rejoices – Version 1 (German, Frohlich soll mein Herze springen)

• All My Heart This Night Rejoices - Version 2

• All My Heart This Night Rejoices – Version 3 (Jubilate Hymns, copyright)

• All My Heart With Joy Is Springing

• All mydle erthe it shall fulfyll (Middle English; retyped in Old Blackletter)

• All of a Maid a Child is Born

• 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 People That On Earth Do Dwell

• All Praise To Jesus’s Hallowed Name

• All Praise to the Lord, Whose Trumpet We Hear

• All Praise to Thee, Eternal God

• All Praise To Thee, Eternal Lord (Alternate Title: All Praise To Thee, Eternal God)

• All Praise To Thee, My God, This Night

• All Praise To You, O Lord

• All That Desire With Christ To Rise

• All That Leve In Cristen Lay

• All That 'Lieve In Christmas Lay

• All That Seek Christ, Your Eyes Erect

• All The Merrier Is That Place

• All The Skies To-night Sing O'er Us

• All The Skies Tonight Sang O'er Us

• All They Wanted Was A Shelter, Fred Pratt Green 1903-2000 © 1975 Stainer & Bell Ltd.

• All Things Were In Silence

• All This Night (Alternate Title: All This Night Bright Angels Sing)

• All This Time This Song Is Best

• All Through The Night

• All Under The Leaves

• All Who Would See God's Greatness (Marnie Barrell, copyright 1995)

• All Ye Who Would The Christ Descry

• All You Need Is Elves (Humor from Bob Rivers, Bob Rivers’ Twisted Tunes)

• All You That Are Good Fellows

• All You That Are To Mirth Inclined (with Sandys' note)

• All You That Seek Christ, Let Your Sight

• All You Who are To Mirth Inclined (Old Christmas Returned - Sylvester)

• All You Who Are To Mirth Inclined - Manx

• All You That Are To Mirth Inclind - Roxburghe 1.374

• All You That Are To Mirth Inclind - Roxburghe 3.288

• All You That Fear The Lord That Rules The Sky

• All You That In This House Be Here

• All You That To Feasting And Mirth Are Inclined (Middle English)

• All You Who Seek The Lord Of Love

• All-wise, All-good, Almighty Lord

• Alleluia, Lord Most Holy

• Alleluia. Now Well We Our Merthis Make

• Alleluia, Song of Sweetness

• Alleluia, Sweetest Lay

• Alleluya. The Joy of Virgin Mary | Alleluya pro Virgine Maria

• Alma redemptoris mater (Alternate Title: As I Lay Upon A Night)

• Almighty Framer of the Skies

• The Almyghty Kyng of Blys

• Almost Day (It's Almost Day, Huddie Ledbetter, copyright 1952)

• Although at Yule It Bloweth Cool

• Always There's a Carol (Christmas) - Shirley Erena Murray (opens in a new window at an exterior site)

• Always Winter but Never Christmas (Performed by XTC, copyright 1992)

• Amen (Traditional Spiritual)

• Amid The Silence

• An Angel This Night

• An Aungell Fro Hevn Gan Lyth

• An Earthly Tree A Heavenly Fruit It Bare

• An Exile For The Faith

• An Heavenly Song, I Dare Well Say (Alternate Title: This Day)

• An Image of that Heavenly Light

• An Infant Lay Within A Shed

• An Old Fashioned Christmas (Copyright: Richard Carpenter and Richard Bettis)

• Ancient Law Departs, The

• Ane Carrell of the Epistill on Zule Euin

• And Art Thou Come With Us To Dwell

• 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 Now The Day Is Past And Gone

• And Now, O Lord, We Call To Mind

• And Now, With Shades Of Night Opprest

• 'And Was Made Man!' Oh, Wondrous Words! - The Incarnation

• The Angel and the Shepherds

• The Angel Chorus

• Angel Gabriel, The (Alternative Title: The Angel Gabriel From Heaven Came)

• Angel Gabriel From God, The (Sandys)

• Angel Gabriel, The (Bramley and Stainer; The Angel Gabriel From God)

• Angel Hosts in Bright Array

• The Angel Said to Joseph Mild

• The Angel Spake The Word

• Angelic Messenger, Repeat

• 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 Christ Child)

• Angels Adore Him

• Angels and Shepherds

• Angels and the Shepherds, The

• The Angels Came Down In Their Cohorts So Bright

• The Angels Came to Sing (Link opens in a new window at Sally DeFord Music)

• Angels Bright, Their Pinions Folding

• Angels From Heaven

• Angels From The Realms of Glory

• Angels O'er The Fields Were Singing (French: Les Anges dans nos Campagnes, translation by George K. Evans, copyright 1963)

• Angels Proclaim

• Angels Rejoiced And Sweetly Sung

• Angels Sing Around the Stall, The

• Angels Singing, Church Bells Ringing

• Angels Speak, Let Men Give Ear

• Angels We Have Heard On High (French: Les Anges dans nos Campagnes)

• The Angels' Chorus

• Angels, We Have Heard Your Voices (Words: Traditional French carol, "Les Anges dans nos Campagnes," Free Translation by R. R. Terry, Two Hundred Folk Carols, 1933)

• The Angel's Sweet Refrain

• 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 (The Angel Gabriel From God, Sandys)
      Come The Archangel To the Maid
      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-tide

• 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)

• Approach All Ye Faithful (Trans By 'C')

• Approach, Ye Faithful, Come With Exultation

• 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 Hail The Glorious Star

• 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 Shine in Splendor

• Arise And Sing, Dispel Your Fears

• Arise and Wake (Alternate Title: Out Of Your Sleep Arise and Wake)

• Arise, And Hail The Sacred Day

• Arise, Arise, The Morning Bells

• Arise, Sons of the Kingdom!

• Arise, The Kingdom Is At Hand

• Around the Throne of God A Band

• Arouse Thee, Herod

• Arrayed In Clouds Of Golden Light

• Arthur McBride and the Sergeant

• As Bright The Star of Morning Gleams

• As Each Happy Christmas

• 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 Roved Out

• As I Sat By My Old Cottage Door (Sharp)

• As I Sat On A Sunny Bank - Version 1 (Dunstan)

• As I Sat On A Sunny Bank - Version 2 (Sharp)

• As I Sat On A Sunny Bank - Version 3 (Sharp)

• As I Sat On A Sunny Bank - Version 4 (Broadwood and Maitland, with music)

• As I Sat On A Sunny Bank (The Sunny Bank) - Version 5 (A Good Christmas Box)

• As I Sat Under A Sycamore Tree

• At I Walked By A Fforest Side - Padelford (1907)

• As I Walked By A Fforest Side - Flügel (1903)

• As I Walked By A Forest Side - Dyboski (1907)

• As I Walked By A Forest Side - Froude (1858)

• As I Walked By A Forest Side - Greene (1935)

• 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 I Went To Bethlehem

• As In Eastern Lands Afar

• 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 Jacob With Travel

• As Jonah, Issuing From His Three Days' Tomb

• 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 - Fyfe (1860)

• 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 - Dunstan (1929)

• As Joseph Was A-Walking - Two Hundred Folk Carols (1932)

• As Lately We Watched

• As On The Night Before This Blessed Morn

• As On The Night Before This Happy Morn

• As said the prophet Abacue - Thomas Wright

• As Shadows Cast by Cloud and Sun

• 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.

• As the Wolf in Fierceness Sore

• As Up The Wood I Took My Way

• As With Gladness, Men of Old

• As Wolves Attack Their Helpless Prey

• Asking For A Lodging

• Assemble, Ye Faithful (T. Darling)

• At Bethlehem, John Ferguson (1921-1989) © 1982 Stainer & Bell Ltd.

• At Dead Of Night, When All Is Still

• At The Beginning Of The Meat (Middle English: At The Begynnyng Of The Mete from Wright, 1847)

• At The Birth Of The Son

• At The Census In The City, Andrew E Pratt (born 1948) © 2002 Stainer & Bell Ltd.

• At The Door A Babe Is Knocking

• At The Gates of Heaven Above

• At the Nativity (First Line: Gloomy Night Embraced The Place)

• At The Hour Of Midnight

• 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

• Auld Lang Syne - Version 1

• Auld Lang Syne - Version 2

• Ave Maria (Latin and English)

• “Ave, Maria,” Now Say We So

• Ave Maria! Blessed Maid!

• Ave! Mary, Full Of Grace

• 'Ave Maria, Gracia Plena!'

• Ave Maria Stella

• Ave Maris Stella

• Awake And Join The Cheerful Choir

• Awake My Harp, My Lute and Cheerful Voice

• Awake my Soul, and With the Sun - 1695

• Awake my Soul, and With the Sun - 1709

• Awake With Joy, Salute The Morn!

• Awake With Joyful Strains Of Mirth

• Awake, And Hear My Story

• Awake, Arise Good Christians

• Awake, Arise, And Hail The Glorious Morn

• Awake, Arise, Behold The Day

• Awake, Arise, Rejoice And Sing

• Awake, Awake The Sacred Song

• Awake! Awake! The Watchman Calls (Translation of Nicoli, Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme)

• Awake, Each Heart, Rejoice And Sing

• Awake, Glad Heart! Get Up and Sing!

• Awake, My Heart, My Soul, My Eyes

• Awake, My Heart's Delight, Awake

• Awake, My Soul, Awake, My Tongue

• Awake, Ye Drowsy Mortals All

• Awake! Thou Careless World, Awake!

• Awake! Ye Nations (I & II)

• Away In A Manger

• Away in a Manger (I Thank Thee, Dear Father) (Link opens in a new window at Sally DeFord Music)

• Away With Our Fears

• Away Upon The Mountain Top (German: Da droben am Berge)

• Away With Sorrow's Sigh

• 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)

• Away! With Loyal Hearts

• Awful Thought Of Endless Doom

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• Babe in Bethlehem’s Manger Laid, The - Version 1 - O. Hardwig

• Babe Jesu, Hear Our Ditty

• 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)

• The Babe That I Carry Carries Me

• 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 Baby's Stockings

• The Bagpipe Carol (First Line: This is a tedious road we're in)

• The Banquet of the Ten Virgins

• 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 glad, lordynges, be ye more and lesse - Thomas Wright

• Be Hush'd, Ye Earth And Silver Skies

• 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 Present, Ye Faithful (Neale)

• Be Silent Heaven! Be Silent Earth!

• Be Still, My Blessed Babe (Sandys)

• Be Still, My Blessed Babe - Husk

• Be The Tidings

• Be Ye Joyful, Earth and Sky

• The Beauteous Star That Beams On High

• Beautiful Bethlehem Bells

• Beautiful Christmas

• Beautiful Star of Bethlehem (A. L. Phipps, copyright 1966; some sources give authorship to Adger McDavid Pace, 1940)

• Beautiful, Beautiful Star

• Beauteous Plant Of High Renown

• Because Its Christmas ("For All The Children;" Bruce Sussman, Jack Feldman and Barry Manilow, copyright 1986)

• Before Thy Face, O God, Of Old

• Begin A Joyful Song

• Begins the Unbeginning, Good News To-Day Is Heard

• Behold! How Glorious Is Yon Sky

• Behold A Little Child

• Behold A Lucid Light Appears

• Behold A Simple Tender Babe

• Behold My Servant, See Him Rise

• Behold That Star (An Original Jubilee Carol by Thomas Washington Talley, Early 20th Century)

• Behold the Bridegroom Cometh - Brownlie

  • Behold the Bridegroom Cometh - Moultrie

  • Behold, The Bridegroom Cometh - GF Root

  • Behold, The Bridegroom Draweth Nigh

  • The Bridegroom Cometh - Chatfield

• Behold, Behold, I Bring You Glad Tidings

• Behold the Bridegroom! Hark The Cry

• Behold the Godhead's Triune Blaze (Title: Christo incarnato; Latin: En Trinitatis speculum)

• Behold The Great Creator Makes

• Behold The Morning Star

• Behold Three Kings Come From the East

• Behold what lyfe that we ryne in

• Behold What Grace Appears

• Behold What News We Bring

• Behold What Splendour

• Behold, The Grace Appears!

• Behold, The Saviour Comes

• Behold! Behold He Cometh

• Behold! In Lowly Manger Stall

• Behold! The Baptist's Warning Sound

• Behold! The Day Is Come

• Behold! The Star Is Shining

• Believers Assemble, Come With Songs To Bethlem

• Bell Carol, The ("Carol Of The Bells" Notes Only; Words and Music by Peter J. Wilhousky, copyright 1936)

• Bellman’s Song, The (The Moon Shone Bright) Version 1

• Bellman's Song, The - Version 2

• Bells Are Ringing Glad And Sweet, The

• The Bells Of Bethlehem

• 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 Over Bethlehem

• 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)

• Beloved Disciple of Thy Lord

• Bend To Our Hymns, Redeemer

• Benedicamus Domino (Alternate Title: What Time I Kept My Sheep In Fold)

• Benign Creator of the Stars

• Beside Thy Cradle Here I Stand

• The Best That Heaven Could Bring

• Bethlehem (First Line: In that poor stable)

• Bethlehem (From the French "Dans cette etable," translated from Fléchier by the Rev. John O'Connor)

• Bethlehem, Not The Least Of Cities

• Bethlehem Land (Alternate Title: Fair The Night in Bethlehem Land)

• Bethlehem Hath Opened Eden

• Bethlehem Shepherd-Boy's Tale, The (Alternate Title: So Happy All The Day)

• Bethlehem Rejoices

• Bethlehem-Juda, 'Twas There On A Morn

• Bethlehem, of Noblest Cities

• Bethlehem's Stall

• Beyond The Glittering Starry Globe

• Beyond The Glittering Starry Skies

• The Birth of the Saviour

• 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)

• Birthday of a King, The

• 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. 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.

• Blackadder’s Christmas Carol

• The Blasts of Chill December

• Blessed Are The Pure In Heart

• Blessed Art Thou, O Church, For Lo! In Thee Is The Sound

• Blessed Be That Child

• Blessed Be That First Day of Thine, Lord

• 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 Y^t Mayde Mary)

• Blessed Be That Maid Mary

• Blessed Be The Lord God Of Israel

• Blessed Be The Messenger That Was Laden

• Blessed Birth, The

• Blessed Dawn of Christmas Day, The (Words and Music by Harry Connick, Jr., copyright 1993)

• Blessed Mother of the Saviour

• Blessed Night, When First That Plain

• Blessed Night, When Beth'lem's Plain

• Blessed Night, When First That-Hark, What Music Fills the Sky-Medley

• Blessed Son of God, The

• Blessed Songs of Christmas

• Blessed, Bright And Shining Star

• Bless'd Be The Lord, For Ever Bless'd

• Blest Are The Sons Of Peace

• Blest Be The God Of Israel

• 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)

• Blest Day, When From The Saviour Flowed

• Blest Framer of the Starry Height

• Blest, Withouten Match

• Blithely From The Moated Churchyard

• Blow Ye The Trumpet, Blow!

• Blue Christmas (Words & Music by Billy Hayes and Jay W. Johnson, copyright 1948)

• Blue Mountain Lake

• Blyssid be that mayde Mary - Thomas Wright

• Blyssid Be Y^t Mayde Mary (Modern Title: Blessed Be That Maid Marie, Middle English Carol, Eya Jhc Hodie Natus Est De Virgine)

• The Boar His Head In Hand I Bring

• The Boare Is Dead (Middle English from Sandys, 1833)

• The Boare is dead - Thomas Wright (1841)

• The Boar Is Dead (Modern from Husk, 1868)

• The Boares Head in Hand Bear I - Anthony à Wood (1660)

• The Boar's Head in Hand Bear I - Queen's College 1811

• The Boar's Head in Hand Bear I - Queen's College, 1921

• The Boar's Head In Hand Bear I - Thomas Wright

• The Boar's Head In Hand Bear I (William Chappell, 1859, with music)

• The Boar's Head In Hand Bring I - Early Version by Husk

• 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)

• The Boar's Head In Hand I Bring

• The Boar's Head, That We Bring Here

• 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)

• The boris hede in hond I bryng - Thomas Wright (1841)

• Born In A Stable He

• Born In Bethlehem A Stranger, Alan Gaunt (born 1935) © 1999 Stainer & Bell Ltd.

• Born Is The Babe, the only Branch of Peace

• Born is the Light of the World (Link opens in a new window at Sally DeFord Music)

• Born Of God The Father‘s Bosom

• 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 Borys Hede That We Bryng Here - Ritson

• The Borys Hede That We Bryng Here (Middle English-Sandys; Also known as The Boar's Head)

• The borys hede that we bryng here - Thomas Wright

• Boys' Carol, The (Personent hodie from Piae Cantiones, 1582; Translation By Elizabeth Poston, The Penguin Book of Christmas Carols, copyright 1965)

• Boy's Dream, The (Alternate Title: Last Night As I Was Laid And Sleep)

• Branch of Jesse's Stem, Arise

• Bread of Salvation - Words by Rev. Vince Uher, copyright 2002

• Break Forth, Break Forth, In Joyful Song

• Break Forth, O Beauteous Heavenly Light - Rist

• Break Forth, O Beauteous Heavenly Light - Bach

• 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.

• Break, New Born Year, On Glad Eyes Break!

• The Bridal Day

• Bride of Christ on High ("Admonitory Address To A Virgin," Gregory Nazainzen)

• Bride of the Lamb, Awake, Awake!

• Bridegroom Soon Will Call Us, The

• Brief Life is Here Our Portion

• Bright And Glorious Is The Sky (Translation of "Dejlig Er Den Himmel Blaa")

• Bright And Joyful Is The Morn

• The Bright And Morning Star

• The Bright and Morning Star Arose

• 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 (Britt)

• Bright Builder of the Heavenly Poles (Shipley)

• Bright Be Thy Christmas Tide

• Bright Maker of the Starry Poles

• Bright, Bright, In Silver Light

• Bright December Moon Is Beaming (Dutch Traditional Sinterklaas Song: Zie de maan schijnt door de bomen)

• Bright Was The Guiding Star That Led

• Bright, Bright the Holly Berries (Alfred Burt, copyright 1954; page opens in new window at the Alfred Burt Carols web site)

• Brightest and Best of the Sons of the Morning

• Brightly Shines A Star On High

• Bring A Torch, Jeanette, Isabella - Version 1

• 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)

• Brothers, 'Tis The Holy Season

• 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 Cool Siloam's Shady Rill

• By Pain, And Weariness, And Doubt

• By Thy Birth, O Lord Of All

• By Thy Birth, Thou Holiest One

• By Types And Figures, Many A Year

• By-by, Lullaby (First line: In a dream late as I lay)

  

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