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 is Born in Bethlehem - Version 1: Krauth Translation of Latin Puer Natus in Bethlehem

• A Babe is Born in Bethlehem - Version 2: Schaff Translation of Latin Puer Natus in Bethlehem

• A Babe Is Born In Bethlehem - Version 3 (Woodward)

• 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, To Bliss Us Bring

• 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 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  (English translation of the Latin Puer Natus in Bethlehem; Translator Unknown)

• 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 is Born in Bethlehem - Version 1 (English translation of the Latin Puer Natus in Bethlehem; Translator Unknown)

• A Child is Born in Bethlehem - Version 2 (English translation by Macgill of the Latin Puer Natus in Bethlehem)

• A Child is Born in Bethlehem - Version 3 (English translation of the Danish Translation, Et Barn Er Født I Betlehem by Grundvig, from the Latin Puer Natus in Bethlehem; Translator Unknown)

• 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 (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

• 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 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 Dread Hath Come On Me

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

• A Galley Will I Build Me

• A Glorious Voice Sounds Through The Night

• 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Doth Bedizen

• A Tale of the Olden Time

• A Thousand Years Have Come And Gone

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

• A Virgin Did Come

• A Virgin Most Blessed

• A Virgin Most Pure

• A Virgin Pure, Both Meek And Mild

• A Virgin Unspotted

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

• A Yeomans 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

• Abowt the fyld thei pyped full right

• Across The Sky The Shades Of Night

• Adam lay ybounden

• 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; Also: The Advent of Our King)

• Advent of Our God, The (Packer 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)

• 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! Gabriel, Ah! Gabriel

• Ah! Lord God, The World's Creator

• Ah! Lord, How Shall I Meet Thee

• Ah! What A Great Mystery!

• All Children Are On Christmas Eve

• All Christians May Rejoice To-day

• 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 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 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 On a Christmas Morning (Bates Burt and Alfred Burt, copyright 1954; opens in new window at the  Alfred Burt Carols web site)

• All People That On Earth Do Dwell

• All Praise To Jesus’s Hallowed Name

• 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 'Lieve In Christmas Lay

• All The Merrier Is That Place

• All The Skies Tonight Sang O'er Us

• 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 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 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 Who Are To Mirth Inclined - Fuller Version

• All You That In This House Be Here

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

• Alleluia, Lord Most Holy

• Alleluia, Song of Sweetness

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

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

• Although at Yule It Bloweth Cool

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

• Amen (Traditional Spiritual)

• Amid The Silence

• 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

• And Art Thou Come With Us To Dwell

• And His Name Shall Be Called Wonderful (Link opens in a new window at Sally DeFord Music)

• 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

• 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 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 Sing Around the Stall, The

• Angels Singing, Church Bells Ringing

• 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 (Words by Vincent William Uher III Copyright © 1996;
      link to Rev. Uher's Home Page is broken.)

• 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)

• 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 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 Each Happy Christmas

• As I Up Ros In A Mornyng

• 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

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

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

• As I Sat Under A Sycamore Tree

• As I went this enders day (Middle English; retyped in Old Blackletter)

• As I Went Through A Garden Green

• As I Went To Bethlehem

• 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 - Gauntlett from Chope  

• As Joseph Was A-Walking - Dunstan

• As Joseph Was A-Waukin'

• As Lately We Watched

• 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 Up The Wood I Took My Way

• As With Gladness, Men of Old

• Asking For A Lodging

• 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 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 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

• Auld Lang Syne - (Chicago Fans Must Not Forget, For Chicago Fans– Humor;
      opens in a new window at RabidFans.com, Copyright 1998 Dale & Pru Palecek)

• Auld Lang Syne - (In Pittsburgh We Must Not Forget, For Pittsburgh Fans– Humor;
      opens in a new window at RabidFans.com, Copyright 1998 Dale & Pru Palecek)

• Auld Lang Syne - (Should Super Bowls Be Forgot, For Denver Fans– Humor;
      opens in a new window at RabidFans.com, Copyright 1998 Dale & Pru Palecek)

• Ave Maria (Latin and English)

• Ave Maria! Blessed Maid!

• Ave! Mary, Full Of Grace

• 'Ave Maria, Gracia Plena!'

• Ave Maris Stella

• Awake And Join The Cheerful Choir

• Awake With Joy, Salute The Morn!

• Awake, And Hear My Story

• Awake, Arise Good Christians

• Awake, Awake The Sacred Song

• Awake, Each Heart, Rejoice And Sing

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

• Away With Sorrow's Sigh

• Away, Dark Thoughts, Awake My Joys

• Away! With Loyal Hearts

• Awful Thought Of Endless Doom

-B-

• 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 To Us That Now Is Born

• 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

• 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 all that be present (First Line: Out of the East a star shone bright)

• Be Merry, Christian Men, And Sing (Alternate Title: Happy Christmas Morning)

• Be Present, Ye Faithful

• Be Still, My Blessed Babe (Sandys)

• Be Still, My Blessed Babe - Husk

• Be Ye Joyful, Earth and Sky

• 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

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

• Behold A Little Child

• 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 - Moultrie

• Behold the Bridegroom Cometh - Brownlie

• Behold the Bridegroom! Hark The Cry

• Behold The Great Creator Makes

• Behold The Morning Star

• Behold what lyfe that we ryne in

• Behold What Grace Appears

• Behold What News We Bring

• Behold, The Bridegroom Draweth Nigh

• 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

• 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)

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

• Beside Thy Cradle Here I Stand

• The Best That Heaven Could Bring

• Bethlehem (First Line: In that poor stable)

• Bethlehem, Not The Least Of Cities

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

• 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

• 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 (Alternate Title: Let Christians All With One Accord Rejoice)

• The Black Decree - Version 2

• Blackadder’s Christmas Carol

• The Blasts of Chill December

• Blessed be that lady bright (First Line: God's Son is born, His mother is a maid)

• Blessed Be That Maid Marie (Modern Equivalent of Blyssid Be Y^t Mayde Mary)

• Blessed Be That Maid Mary

• 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 Beth'lem's Plain

• Blessed Son of God, The

• Blessed Songs of Christmas

• Blest Are The Sons Of Peace

• 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, Withouten Match

• Blithely From The Moated Churchyard

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

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

• The Boar’s Head In Hand Bring I (Later Version) (Middle English from Sandys: The Bores Heed In Hand Bring I)

• The Boar's Head, That We Bring Here

• Bohemian Carol (First Line: "What mean this omen so strangely appearing?")

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

• 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 Today Is The Child Divine (French: Il Est Ne, Le Divin Enfant

• Born To Die (Lyrics by Gregory Kelly, 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)

• Born to Wear a Crown (Link opens in a new window at Sally DeFord Music)

• Borning Day, The (Notes Only; Words and Music by Fred Hellerman and Fran Minkoff, copyright 1963)

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

• The borys hede that we bryng here - Thomas Wright

• Bores heed in hande bring I, The (Middle English; retyped in Old Blackletter; ; the modern equivalent is The Boar’s Head Carol)

• 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)

• 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)

• Bread of Salvation ( Words: Vincent Uher, copyright 2002)

• 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, Amy Grant)

• 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 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

• Bright Angel Hosts Are Heard On High ("Cornish Carol," from Hutchins, 1916; based on the French: Les Anges dans nos Campagnes)

• Bright Be Thy Christmas Tide

• 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

• Bring A Torch, Jeanette, Isabella - Version 1

• Bring Your Torches, Jeanette, Isabella - Version 2 (English translation of the French, Un flambeau, Jeannette, Isabelle)

• Bring Us In Good Ale, and bring us in good ale

• Bryne Us In No Browne Bred

• 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 Thy Birth, O Lord Of All

• By Thy Birth, Thou Holiest One

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

On many pages, you will see links to "Noteworthy Composer files" and "XML files."
For more information about these two formats, see: NWC & XML.

Full Index
Caution: Will Open Slowly On A Dial-up Connection

Non-English Carols and Hymns
Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Bibliography
Includes links to other sites and to Amazon.com for printed collections, histories, etc.

Sheet Music Sources

Free Christmas MP3s

Carol Services

Calendars of Carols
November, December and January

Christmas Classics™ Videos

Multi-media video presentations about favorite carols from Ron Clancy, author of the Christmas Classics™ series of beautifully illustrated Christmas carol books. Updates will appear approximately daily through early December, 2009. A total of 22 videos are expected to be linked.

Some Feast Days During the Christmas-Tide

St. Nicholas
Feast Day: December 6
From Saint Nicholas to Santa Claus: A History

St Stephen
(December 26)

St. John The Evangelist
(December 27)

The Holy Innocents
(December 28)

Tables of Contents

Theodoricus Petri, Piæ Cantiones ecclesiasticae et scholasticae veterum episcoporum Griefswald, Sweden: 1582

Joseph Ritson, ed., Ancient Songs and Ballads From The Reign of King Henry the Second To The Revolution. 1790.
W. Carew Hazlitt, ed., Third Edition.
London: Reeves And Turner, 1877.
Repr. Detroit, MI: Singing Tree Press, 1968.
Table of Contents

Davies Gilbert, Some Ancient Christmas Carols
London: John Nichols And Son, 1822
London: John Nichols And Son, Second Edition, 1823
Preface
Table Of Contents

William Sandys, Christmas Carols Ancient and Modern
London: Richard Beckley, 1833
Introduction
Christmas Play of Saint George
Table of Contents

Thomas Wright, Specimens of Old Christmas Carols
The Percy Society,  1841
Table of Contents

Thomas Wright, Songs and Carols
The Percy Society, 1847
Table of Contents

William Sandys, Christmas-tide, Its History, Festivities and Carols, With Their Music
London: John Russell Smith, 1852
A Mock Play
Christmas Play of St. George and the Dragon
Table of Contents

Rev. John Mason Neale and Rev. Thomas Helmore, Carols for Christmas-tide
London: Novello, 1853

Rev. J. (John) Freeman Young, ed., Carols For Christmas Tide
New York: Daniel Dana, Jr., 1859
Earth Today Rejoices
Earthly Friends Will Change And Falter
Good Christian Men Rejoice
Good King Wenceslas
Here Is Joy For Every Age
Royal Day That Chasest Gloom
Silent Night, Holy Night

Also see additional notes in
Hymns and Music For The Young - Parts One & Two - J. F. Young.

John Clark Hollister, ed., The Sunday-School Service and Tune Book
New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, 1863, 1865.
Table of Contents

John Henry Hopkins, Jr., Carols, Hymns and Songs
New York: Church Book Depository, 1863
The Angel Chorus
Evergreen, Holly And Laurel
The Christmas Tree
The Shepherds of Bethlehem
Three Kings Of Orient

Joshua Sylvestre, A Garland of Christmas Carols, Ancient and Modern
London: 1861, reprinted by A. Wessels Company, New York, 1901
Table of Contents and Introduction

Edward F. Rimbault, A Little Book Of Christmas Carols.
London: Cramer, Beale & Co., 201, Regent Street, No Date (circa 1863).
Preface
Table Of Contents

William Henry Husk, Songs of the Nativity
London: John Camden Hotten, 1868, reprinted by Norwood Editions, Norwood, PA, 1873
Introduction
Table of Contents

Henry Ramsden Bramley and John Stainer, Christmas Carols New and Old
London: Novello, Ewer & Co., ca 1871, 1878
Introduction To The First Series
Introduction To The Second Series
Introduction To A Combined Volume 1871 (First and Second Series)
Introduction To A Combined Volume
(First, Second & Third Series)
Table of Contents

A. H. Bullen, A Christmas Garland: Carols and Poems From The Fifteenth Century To The Present Time
London: John C. Nimmo, 1885
Preface
Table of Contents

J. H. Hopkins, Great Hymns of the Church Compiled By The Late Right Reverend John Freeman Young
New York: James Pott & Company, 1887
Preface
Table of Contents

J. A. Fuller Maitland, English Carols of the Fifteenth Century
London: The Leadenhall Press, E.C., ca. 1891.
Introduction
Table of Contents
Appendix

Richard R. Chope, Carols For Use In Church
London: William Clowes & Sons, The Complete Edition, 1894
Introduction
Table of Contents
Carol Services

Rev. John Brownlie, Christmas Hymns from The East
38 Translations from Six Collections, 1900-1913

George Ratcliffe Woodward, The Cowley Carol Book
First Series, Expanded and Enlarged, Preface To First Series
London: A. R. Mowbray & Co., Ltd., ca. 1902
Second Series, Preface To Second Series
London: A. R. Mowbray & Co., Ltd., ca. 1912
Table Of Contents

Phillips Brooks, Christmas Songs and Easter Carols
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1903
Table of Contents

George Ratcliffe Woodward, ed., Songs of Syon
London: Schott & Co., Third Edition, 1908
Table of Contents

Edith Rickert, Ancient English Christmas Carols
London: Chatto & Windus, 1910
Introduction
Table of Contents
Glossary
Illustrations

Cecil J. Sharp, English Folk-Carols
London: Novello & Co., 1911
Table of Content, Preface, and Introduction

Richard R. Terry, Twelve Christmas Carols
London: J. Curwen & Sons, Ltd., 1912
Table Of Contents

Martin Shaw and Percy Dearmer, The English Carol Book
London: Mowbray & Co., Ltd.
First Series, 1913
Second Series, 1919
Complete Edition, 1938
Carol Service, 1947

Charles L. Hutchins, Carols Old and Carols New
Boston: Parish Choir, 1916
Table of Contents

Charles Wood and George Ratcliffe Woodward, eds., An Italian Carol Book
London: The Faith Press, Ltd., 1920
Table of Contents and Preface

George Ratcliffe Woodward, The Babe Of Bethlehem
Being Some Christmas Carols
Hillsgate Village, 1923
Table Of Contents

Charles Wood and George Ratcliffe Woodward, The Cambridge Carol-Book
Being Fifty-Two Songs For Christmas, Easter, And Other Seasons
London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1924
Table of Contents

W. A. Pickard-Cambridge, A Collection of Dorset Carols
London: A. W. Ridley & Co., 1926
Preface
Table of Contents
This significant collection has been overlooked;
I would recommend this volume to the serious student of carols.

Ralph Dunstan, The Cornish Song Book (Lyver Canow Kernewek)
London: Reid Bros., Ltd., 1929
Introduction To Cornish Carols
Cornish Carols

Richard R. Terry, Gilbert and Sandys' Christmas Carols
London: Burns, Oates & Washbourne, Ltd., 1931
Preface
Table of Contents

Roy Ringwald, Book Of American Carols
Penn State University, 2004
Index

William Hone, The Every Day Book
2 Vols.
London: William Tegg, 1825, 1827.

Brand's Popular Antiquities Of Great Britain
Selections from Hazlitt's Edition of 1905
Coming Soon Are Excerpts From the Ellis Edition of 1888

Christmas Poetry And Prose

What Is Meter?

Hymnals And Carol Collections

Collections Being Sought

Other Christmas Literature and Reference Works

A Little Book for Christmas - Cyrus Townsend Brady (1917)

A Righte Merrie Christmasse!!! - John Ashton (1894)

Ancient Poems, Ballads and Songs of England - Robert Bell (1857) (Text)

Ancient Poems, Ballads and Songs of the Peasantry of England - Robert Bell (PDF)

Another Easy Christmas Book - Ruth Putnam Kimball (PDF, Illustrated; Source: Internet Archive)

The Children's Book of Christmas Stories - Asa Don Dickinson and Ada M. Skinner

Christmas: Its Origin and Associations - William Francis Dawson (1902)

Christmas: Its Origin, Celebration and Significance as Related in Prose and Verse - Robert Haven Schauffler (1907; from the Our American Holidays series; PDF, Illustrated; Source: Internet Archive)

Christmas Entertainments - Alice Maude Kellogg (Text)

Christmas In Legend And Story - Elva S. Smith and Alice I. Hazeltine (1915)

Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan - Clement A. Miles (1912)

Christmas Stories And Legends - Phebe A. Curtiss (1916) (Text)

The Doré Gallery of Bible Illustrations - Gustave Doré (1891)

Folk Lore of East Yorkshire - John Nicholson (1890)

The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints - Alban Butler
January-February-March (1895)

Holiday Stories for Young People - Margaret E. Sangster

The Night Before Christmas and Other Popular Stories For Children - Anonymous

Our Holidays: Their Meaning and Spirit - from St. Nicholas Magazine

Traditions, Superstitions, and Folklore - Charles Hardwick (1872)

Yule-Tide in Many Lands - Mary P. Pringle and Clara A. Urann (1916)

Latin for Beginners - Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge (1911)

New Latin Grammar - Charles E. Bennett (1895, 1908, 1918)

Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles - A First Latin Reader - John Kirtland (1903)

The Roman Pronunciation of Latin - Frances Ellen Lord

A_Latin_English_Dictionary-Thomas Hewitt Key (1888)

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