Index of the Hymns and Carols of Christmas

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• C-H-R-I-S-T-M-A-S (Words: Jenny Lou Carson, Music: Eddy Arnold; copyright 1949)

• Calm On The Listening Ear Of Night

• Calypso Carol (Written by Michael Perry; believed to be under copyright)

• Cana of Galilee (Words by Vincent William Uher III Copyright © 1998,
      link to Rev. Uher's Home Page is broken.)

• Candlelight Carol (Words and Music John Rutter, copyright 1984)

• Candlemas Eve Carol

• Can I Not Sing But Hoy

• Carnal and the Crane

• 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 Children

• Carol of Redemption

• 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 (John Wheeler and William Garnet James James, Date Unknown; First line: "Out of the plains the brolgas are dancing")

• Carol of the Birds (Alternate Title: Whence Comes This Rush of Wings)

• The Carol Of The Fir Tree

• 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 of the Three Kings, The

• Carol Of The Wheat And Tares

• Carol Our Christmas (Words: Shirley Erena Murray, Music: Colin Gibson, copyright)

• Carol We High, Carol We Low

• Carol, Brothers, Carol

• Carol, Carol, Christians

• Carol, Children, Carol

• Carol, Christian Children

• Carol, Sweetly Carol - Version 1 by Fanny Crosby

• Carol, Sweetly Carol - Version 2, Anonymous

• Carol! Carol Joyfully

• 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)

• Carolling On

• Carolling, Carolling, All Thro' The Night

• Carroll for a Wassell Bowl, The

• Carols Sing (Words: Martha Puckett and Paul Puckett, 1998; Music: Michael W. Smith, 1998; link opens at the website of Michael W. Smith)

• Cast Off All Doubtful Care

• Cedar Of Lebanon, The

• 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, The – Parts 1, 2, & 3 (Bradley)

• The Cherry-tree Carol - Dunstan - Parts 1 & 2

• The Cherry-Tree Carol, The - Parts 1, 2, & 3 (Husk)

• The Cherry Tree Carol - Rickert (Parts 1, 2, & 3, following Bullen, 1885)

• The Cherry Tree Carol -- Parts 2 & 3 (Sandys)

• 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 2

• Cherry Tree Carol, The – Part 2, Version 3

• Cherry Tree Carol, The – Part 2, Version 4

• Cherry Tree Carol, The -- Part 2, Version 5 (Hutchins)

• Cherry Tree Carol, The – Part 3, Version 1 ("Mary and Jesus" or "Mary’s Question")

• Chester Carol (Translation of Lully, Lully, Lu or Qui creavit coelum)

• Child And The Shepherd, The

• Child Divine (Alternate Title: List! Afar! What Angel Voices)

• 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 Came From Heaven To Earth

• Child Jesus Came To Earth This Day

• Child Jesus Comes To Earth - Version 2

• Child Jesus In The Garden, The (Bramley and Stainer; also an arrangement from Charles L. Hutchins)

• Child Jesus Lay on Mary's Knee

• Child Jesus So Dear

• 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)

• Childing Of A Maiden Bright

• Children Here On Earth Who Dwell

• Children The Wide World Over

• 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)

• Children's King, The

• Children’s Song Of The Nativity

• Chime, Happy Christmas Bells, Once More

• Chipmunk Song, The (Christmas Don’t Be Late) (Words and Music by Ross Bagdasarian, copyright 1958)

• Choirs of Angels

• 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 Marys Lap

• Christ Child Lullaby

• Christ, Hath Christ's Mother (Alternate Title: Hominum Laudes)

• Christ in Stranger’s Guise (Alfred Burt, copyright 1954; page opens in new window at Alfred Burt Carols)

• Christ Is At Thy Portals

• Christ Is Born

• 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

• Christ Is Born In Bethlehem (an adaptation of "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing")

• Christ Is Born Of Maiden Fair

• Christ Is Born This Evening (Poland - Gdy Sie Chrystus Rodzi; compare On the Night When Jesus Came)

• Christ Is Born! Christ Is Born!

• Christ Is Born! Tell Forth His Fame!

• 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 Is The World’s True Light

• Christ Keep Us All, As He Well Can

• Christ My God, By Faith Beholding (Words by Vincent William Uher III Copyright © 1997,
     link to Rev. Uher's Home Page is broken)

• Christ The Lord Most Glorious

• Christ The Lord To Us Is Born

• 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 A Traveler

• Christ Was Born In Bethlehem

• 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 Borne (Alternate Title: Hominum Laudes)

• Christ, Upon the Mountain Peak (Lyrics by Brian A. Wren, copyright 1977)

• Christ, Whose Glory Fills the Skies

• Christ! For Thee, With Sorrow Laden

• Christemas Hath Made An End (Alternate Title: Christmas Hath Made An End)

• Christen People, Christmas-Morn

• Christian Children Must Be Holy

• Christian Children, Advent Bids You

• Christian Children, Wake And Listen

• Christian People Come and Sing

• Christian, Open Up Your Door

• Christians Rejoice

• Christians, Awake, Salute The Happy Morn - Version 1

• Christians, Awake! Salute The Happy Morn - Version 2

• Christians, Carol Sweetly

• Christians, Listen, While We Sing

• Christians, Sing Out With Exultation

• 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 Are Ringing, The

• Christmas Brings Joy To Every Heart

• 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)

• The Christmas Chanters

• Christmas Chimes

• Christmas Chimes So Bold and Blest, The (Compare: The Bells of Christmas and The Happy Christmas Comes Once More)

• Christmas Comes, The

• 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 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)

• Christmas Eve is Here

• A Christmas Folk-Song (First line: The little Jesus came to town)

• Christmas For Cowboys (Words and Music by Steve Weisberg, copyright 1975)

• Christmas Greetings

• 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 - Friedrich Dielman

• 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 Air

• 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-Comin' ("May God Bless You;" Words and Music by Frank Luther, 1953)

• Christmas Is Coming (Chicago Is Playing, For Chicago Fans – Humor;
      opens in a new window at RabidFans.com, Copyright 1998 Dale & Pru Palecek)

• Christmas Is Coming (Denver Is Playing, For Denver Fans – Humor;
      opens in a new window at RabidFans.com, Copyright 1998 Dale & Pru Palecek)

• Christmas Is Coming (English Traditional - Version 1)

• Christmas Is Coming (English Traditional - Version 2)

• Christmas Is Coming (Kick Off Is Coming, For Green Bay Fans – Humor;
      opens in a new window at RabidFans.com, Copyright 1997 Dale & Pru Palecek)

• Christmas Is Coming (Pittsburgh is Playing, For Pittsburgh Fans – Humor;
      opens in a new window at RabidFans.com, Copyright 1998 Dale & Pru Palecek)

• Christmas Is Here

• Christmas Is Here Again

• Christmas Is My Name (Alternate Title: Christmas's Lamentation)

• Christmas Is Now Drawing At Hand

• Christmas Island

• Christmas Lamentations

• 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 Morn Has Come

• Christmas Morning (Alternate Title: In The Early Morning, Early)

• Christmas Must Be Tonight

• Christmas Night (Alternate Title: On Christmas Night True Christians Sing)

• The Christmas Now Is Past

• Christmas On Riverside Drive (August Darnell, copyright 1979)

• Christmas Once Is Christmas Still

• 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 Serenade

• 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, 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 Songs Are Ringing Now

• Christmas Stars Are Shining, The

• The Christmas Storke

• 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 Has Come Again

• Christmas Time Is Come Again

• 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.)

• Christmas Tree, The

• Christmas Tree Song, The (As performed by Dream Street, copyright; first line: Is this not a Christmas tree?)

• Christmas Tree with its Candles Gleaming

• 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)

• Christmas, Season of Childlike Delight

• Christmas-time Seems Years and Years Away

• Christ's Nativity

• Chrystmasse of Olde

• Church, In Advent, From Of Old, The, Fred Pratt Green (1903-2000) © 1982 Stainer & Bell Ltd.

• Church of God A Kingdom Is, The

• Clear Upon The Night Air Sounding

• Cold Winter Shadow

• Color the Children

• Come All With Us, Harmonious Tongues

• Come All You True Good Christians

• 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 And Hear The Grand Old Story

• Come Behold The Virgin Mother

• Come Bravely On, My Masters

• Come Bring The Noise

• Come Buy My Nice Fresh Ivy (Irish Traditional)

• Come Children, With Singing

• Come Follow, Follow Me

• Come Forth, Ye Wond'ring Children All (Alternate Title: Legends Of The Infancy)

• Come Gather Round, People, And Pause On Your Way - Humor

• Come Hither, Ye Faithful

• Come In, Dear Angels (Alfred Whitehead, copyright 1938)

• Come Let Us All Sweet Carols Sing

• Come, Let Us Sing

• 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, Ye Shepherds Away From Your Fold

• 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 Rejoice, All Good Christians

• Come Rejoicing, Faithful Men

• Come Rejoicing, Praises Voicing

• Come The Archangel To the Maid

• 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, In Bethlehem

• Come To Us Wisdom From On High, Alan Luff (born 1928) translated from Veni Emmanuel © Stainer & Bell Ltd.

• Come With The Wise Men

• 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 Ye, With The Angels Sing

• Come! Tune Your Heart

• Come, All Friends, And Keep The Feast

• Come, All That Are Weary, Alan Gaunt (born 1935) © 1999 Stainer & Bell Ltd.

• Come, All Ye Children

• Come, All Ye Shepherds 1

• Come, All Ye Shepherds 2

• Come, All Ye Shepherds 3

• Come, And Christ The Lord Be Praising

• Come, Children, Raise Your Voices

• Come, Dear Children (Wilha Hutson and Alfred Burt, copyright 1954; page opens in new window at the Alfred Burt Carols web site)

• Come, Good Christians, Join Our Song

• Come, Guard This Night

• Come, Happy Souls

• Come, Hear The Wonderful Tidings

• Come, Let Us Sing (First Line: "Come, let us sing our sweetest voice")

• Come Let Us Sing Of Those Sweet Babes

• Come, Let Us Sing The Story

• Come, Listen To My Story

• Come, Listen To The Story

• Come, Lord Jesus, Come! (Words by Vincent William Uher III Copyright © 1995,
      link to Rev. Uher's Home Page is broken.)

• Come, Love We God

• Come, Mad Boys (First Line: Come, mad boys, be glad, boys, for Christmas is here)

• Come, O Immanuel, Come

• Come, Rock The Cradle For Him

• Come, Shepherds, Come! Shake Off Your Sleep

• 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 Redeemer Of The Earth - Version 2

• Come, Thou Savior Of Our Race (Translation of Veni, Redemptor Gentium)

• Come, Tune Your Cheerful Voice

• Come, Ye Christians All

• Come, Ye Faithful, Loud Exalt

• Come, Ye Faithful, Raise the Anthem

• 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)

• The Coming Of Our God

• Comfort, Comfort Ye My People - Version 1

• Comfort, Comfort Ye My People - Version 2

• Companions All Sing Loudly

• The Conception Of Christ

• Conditor alme siderum (There is a Child born of Mary)

• Conquering Kings Their Titles Take

• 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)

• Coventry Carol, Version 1

• Coventry Carol, Version 2

• Cradled All Lowly (Alternate Titles: Bethlehem and The Shepherd's Nativity Hymn)

• Cradled In A Manger, Meanly (Alternate Title: Cradled In A Manger, Meakly)

• Creator of the Starry Height

• Creator Of The Stars Of Night

• Crib And The Cross, The

• Crown Him With Many Crowns

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Full Index
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Table of Contents
Non-English Carols and Hymns

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

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

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. 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

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