Index of the Hymns and Carols of Christmas

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• Habakkuk In Ancient Song

• Hail Happy Tide

• Hail Holy Night

• Hail Mary, Full Of Grace, Mother In Virginity (Rickert, with music from from J. A. Fuller Maitland, English Carols of the Fifteenth Century)

• Hail Mary, Full of Grace (Terry, Two Hundred Folk Carols, with sheet music)

• Hail Mary, Full of Grace (Terry, A Medieval Carol Book, with sheet music)

• Hail Mary, Full of Grace (Marnie Barrell, copyright 2001; used with permission)

• Hail Mary, Star Of Morning

• Hail The Blest Morn!

• Hail the King! - Murray (First Line: "Shout aloud oh lovely Zion")

• Hail The Morn! Let Praises Cheerful

• Hail Thou Star That Guidest

• Hail To The Day ! So Rich In Joy

• Hail to the King, Who Comes in Weakness Now

• Hail to the Lord Who Comes

• Hail to the Lord's Anointed

• Hail to the King, Who Comes in Weakness Now

• Hail To The Morn

• Hail to the Morn That Dawns On Eastern Hills

• Hail To The Virgin-born

• Hail Ye Flowers of Martyrs

• Hail, All Hail The Joyful Morn

• Hail, Blessed Virgin, Full of Heavenly Grace (On The Infancy Of Our Saviour)

• Hail, Comely and Clean! Hail, Young Child! (Rickert)

• Hail, Comly And Clene (Chambers & Sidgwick)

• Hail, Ever Hail, Thou Glorious Morn

• Hail, Flowrets of Christ's Martyr-Crown

• Hail, Flowerets of the Martyr-train

• Hail, Gentle Jesus

• Hail, Gladdening Light

• Hail, Hail, The Beautiful Morn Hath Dawned

• Hail, Hail The Day On Which The Lord

• Hail, Holy, Heaven-descended Child

• Hail, Harbinger of Morn

• Hail, Infant Martyrs, New-born Victims, Hail!

• Hail, O Thou, Of Woman Born

• Hail, Sweet Babe, So Pure And Holy, #263

• Hail, Sweet Babe, So Pure And Holy, #410

• Hail, Source of Living Light Divine

• Hail, Thou Long Expected Jesus

• Hail, Thou Mother Full Of Grace!

• Hail, Thou Once Despised Jesus

• Hail, Thou Source of Every Blessing

• Hail, Undiminished Love, Brian Wren (born 1936) © 1986, 1996 Stainer & Bell Ltd

• Hail! Babe, Of God The Very Son

• Hail! Blessed Virgin Mary!

• Hail! Eternal Son, To-day

• Hail! Eternal Son, To Thee

• Hail! Ever Hail! Auspicious Morn

• Hail! Hail! Hail!

• Hail! Holy Child, Lain In An Oxen Manger

• Hail! Jesu Christ, Blessed For Aye

• Hail! Sacred Day, Auspicious Morn

• Hail! Shepherds, Hail!

• Hallelujah Chorus (from Messiah by Georg Frederic Handel)

• Hallelujah, Hallelujah – O Rejoice, Ye Christians, Loudly

• Hampshire Mummers Christmas Carol

• Hanover Winter Song (Richard Hovey and Frederic Field Bullard, 1898)

• Happiest Christmas (Words: Myles Rudge, Music: Ted Dicks; Copyright 1970)

• Happy Bells Are Ringing

• Happy Birthday Jesus (Estelle Levitt and Lee Pockriss, copyright 1977)

• Happy Christmas

• Happy Christmas Comes Once More, The – Version 1 (Original Lyrics: Det Kimer Nu Til Julefest); Compare: The Bells of Christmas and The Christmas Chimes So Bold and Blest

• Happy Christmas Comes Once More, The – Version 2 (Original Lyrics: Det Kimer Nu Til Julefest)

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

• Happy Holiday (Words and music by Irving Berlin, copyright 1941)

• Happy Night! A Day Was Never

• Happy Xmas (War is Over) (John Lennon and Yoko Ono, copyright 1971)

• Hard Candy Christmas (Carol Hall, copyright 1978)

• Hardrock, Coco and Joe (Also known as The Three Little Dwarves;
      Words and Music by Stuart Hamblen, copyright 1950)

• Hark Around Cherubic Legions

• Hark How The Voice Is Echoed Round

• Hark In The Wilderness

• Hark The Glad Sound!

• Hark The Triumphant Angels' Song

• Hark To The Voices Of The Night

• Hark Ye Shepherds

• Hark, Hark What News - Version 1 (Alternate Title: Hark! Hark! What News The Angels Bring)

• Hark Hark What News The Angels Bring - Version 2

• Hark! Hark What News The Angels Bring! - Version 3 from Pettman

• Hark, What Music Fills Creation

• Hark! A Burst of Heavenly Music

• Hark! A Gladsome Voice Is Thrilling

• Hark! A Herald Voice Is Calling

• Hark! A Mystic Voice Is Sounding

• Hark! A Thrilling Voice Is Sounding

• Hark! All Around The Welkin Rings - Version 1

• Hark! All Around The Welkin Rings - Version 2

• Hark! An Awful Voice Is Sounding

• Hark! Hark! The Notes of Joy

• Hark! Hark! The Sweet, Sweet Chiming

• Hark! Hark! With Harps Of Gold

• Hark! Hear Ye Not The Angel Song? - Version 1

• Hark! Hear Ye Not The Angel Song - Alt. from Hutchins, with notes

• Hark! Heard Ye Not the Ancient Seer

• Hark! How The Angels Sing

• Hark! How The Heralds of the Lord

• Hark! I Hear, Sweet And Clear

• Hark! On The Midnight Air

• Hark! Sweet Angel Voices Singing

• Hark! The Angel Greets The Maiden

• Hark! The Christmas Songs Are Singing

• Hark! The Full-Voiced Choir Is Singing

• Hark! The Herald Angels Sing – (Original Lyrics: Hark, how all the welkin rings)

• Hark! The Herald Angels Sing -- (From William Sandys, Christmas Carols Ancient and  Modern, 1833)

• Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (Finals Time – Humor)

• Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (Hark The Carol Singers Choke - Humor)

• Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (Hark! The Ninja Turtles Sing! – Humor)

• Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (Hark! The Rockefellers Sing – Humor)

• Hark! The Herald Angels Singing

• Hark! The Herald Host Is Singing

• Hark, The Heralds Loud Did Sing

• Hark! The Joyful Christmas Greeting

• Hark! The Merry Christmas Bells

• Hark! The Music Of The Cherubs

• Hark! The Skies With Music Sound

• Hark! The Song of Choirs Angelic

• Hark! The Trump Of God Is Sounding

• Hark! The Voice Eternal

• Hark! Upon the Morning Breezes

• Hark! What Celestial Notes

• Hark! What Celestial Sounds

• Hark! What Heavenly Sounds Are Floating

• Hark! What Mean Those Heavenly Voices

• Hark! What Mean Those Holy Voices? (From Montgomery)

• Hark! What Mean Those Holy Voices? (From Pettman)

• Hark! What Mean Those Thrilling Voices

• Hark! What Mean Those Voices?

• Hark! What Sounds Are Sweetly Stealing

• Hark! What Sounds Salute Our Ears

• Hark, A Joyful Voice is Thrilling

• Hark, An Awful Voice is Sounding

• Hark, From The Midnight Hills Around

• Hark, Shepherds, How The Angels Sing

• Hark, The Angel Choirs Proclaim

• Hark, The Celestial Hills Around

• Hark, The Christmas Chanters Come

• Hark, The Glad Sound! (Alternate Title: Hark, The Glad Sound! The Savior Comes)

• Hark, 'Tis The Watchman's Cry (Alternate Title: Wake, Brethren, Wake!)

• Hark, What A Sound, And Too Divine

• Hasten, Ye Faithful, Glad, Joyful, and Holy (J. R. Beste, 15th–16th Century)

• Haste, All Who 'Mid Life's Thorny Ways

• Have You Not Heard, Not Heard Our Saviour's Love? (Pickard-Cambridge, with sheet music)

• Have You Not Heard of Our Saviour's Love? (A Choice Collection of Christmas Carols, circa 1775)

• Have You Not Heard of Our Saviour's Love? (Journal of the Folk Song Society, with sheet music)

• Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (Words by Ralph Blane, Music by Hugh Martin, copyright 1943; Links open at the Songwriters Hall of Fame)

• Hay Zule now sing and mak myrth

• He Came Among Us at Christmastide (Alternate Title: Long Ago And Far Away)

• He Came Because the Father Willed

• He Comes To Rescue Ruin’d Man

• He Cometh, Father, As He Came From From Old

• He Has Come, The Christ of God

• He Has Come An Infant Stranger (Benediction Hymn and Amen)

• He Is Born, Holy Child Divine (French: Il Est Ne, Le Divin Enfant)

• He Is Born, The Divine Christ Child, Version 1 (French: Il Est Ne, Le Divin Enfant)

• He Is Born, The Divine Christ Child, Version 2 (French: Il Est Ne, Le Divin Enfant)

• He Is Born, The Holy Child (French: Il Est Ne, Le Divin Enfant; Translation by George K. Evans, copyright 1963)

• He Is Born, The Holy One (French: Il Est Ne, Le Divin Enfant)

• He Is Born, The Heav'nly Child (French: Il Est Ne, Le Divin Enfant; Translator Edward Bliss Reed)

• He Is The Reason (Written by Fred Hammond, Kim Rutherford, and David Ivey, copyright 1996, performed by Fred Hammond & RFC; it is found on the 1996 CD "The Real Meaning of Christmas"; link opens in a new window at Amazon.com)

• He Sends To The Virgin No Lowlier Angel

• He Shall Be Called (Words and Music by Ralph Merrifield, copyright 1999, used with permission)

• He Shall Feed His Flock (see notes to Canzone D'l Zampognari)

• He Smiles Within His Cradle (German: Ein Kindlein in der wiegen)

• He Was A Shepherd, Too (Copyright, Lynne Perry Christofferson)

• He Was Here. (Words and Music: Michael McLean (1952-), The Forgotten Carols (Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret Book Co., 1991, rev. 2003). Links open at exterior sites.

• He Whom Joyous Shepherds Praised (Translation: Charles Winfred Douglas)

• He Whom Shepherds Once Came Praising, Translation by Composite, Lutheran Book of Worship, Hymn #68, copyright 1978

• He, By Whose Hand The Light Was Made

• The Head That Once Was Crowned With Thorns

• Heap On More Wood! The Wind Is Chill

• Hear The Angels Telling

• Hear The Glad Tidings

• Hear Them Bells

• Hear Ye The Message

• Hearken, All! What Holy Singing

• Hearken To Me Both Old And Young (Pollard)

• Hearken To Me Both Old And Young (Weston)

• Hearken to the Solemn Voice

• Hearts At Christmas Time Were Jolly

• Heat Miser Song, The (From the Rankin-Bass Television Production "The Year Without Santa Claus", copyright 1974)

• The Heavens Bend To Kiss The Earth

• The Heavens He Has Renewed

• Heaven's Message

• The Heavenly Birth

• Heavenly Child in Stature Grows, The

• Heavenly Host

• Heavenly Sound (First Line: Behold, a lucid light appears)

• Heavenly Word Proceeding Forth, The

• Heirlooms (Words and Music by Bob Farrell, Brown Bannister, and Amy Grant, copyright 1983; From A Christmas Album, Amy Grant; link open in a new window at the website of Amy Grant)

• Help Us O Lord Behold We Enter

• Her Baby, Newly Breathing, Brian Wren (born 1936) © 1989 Stainer & Bell Ltd

• Her Virgin Eyes Saw God Incarnate Born (Alternate Title: Herald, Sound The Note Of Judgment; Lyrics by Moir A. J. Waters, copyright)

• Herald Angels - "Hark! The herald angels sing," from A Good Christmas Box

• Herdsmen Keeping Lonely Vigil

• Here Betwixt Ass And Oxen Mild (Notes Only; Translation Charles Winfred Douglas, said to be copyright 1940, however, there is no record at the U.S. Government Copyright Office)

• Here Comes Holly (Husk; 1868)

• Here Commes Holly, That Is So Gent (Chambers & Sidgwick), compare: Her Commys Holly, That Is So Gent (Wright, 1847)

• Here Comes Santa Claus (Words and Music by Gene Autry & Oakley Haldeman, copyright 1947)

• Here Comes Santa Claus (Australian Christmas – Humor)

• Here Haue I Dwellyd With More & Lasse (Flügel)

• Here Have I Dwelt In Joyfulness (Weston)

• Here Is Joy For Every Age

• Here Is the Centre (Timothy Dudley-Smith, copyright 1991; link opens at David Lee's Service Music)

• Here We Come A-Caroling (The Wassail Song)

• Here We Come A-Wassailing (The Wassail Song)

• Here We Come A-Whistling (through the fields so green)

• Here We Go Up To Bethlehem, Sydney Carter (1915-2004) © 1965 Stainer & Bell Ltd.

• Here, Shepherds, Let’s Assemble

• Herod That Was Both Wild and Wode

• Herode Y^t Was Both Wylde And Wode (Middle English)

• Herrick's Ode (Alternate Title: In Numbers, And But These Few)

• Hey for Christmas or Shropshire Wakes

• Hey, Hey, Ho (Words and Music: Ed Chenette, 1937, copyright)

• Hey! Ho! Nobody Home

• Heyle, Of Wymmen Flour Of Alle

• The High Forerunner of the Morn

• High Let Us Swell Our Tuneful Notes – Version 1 (Philip Doddridge, 1755)

• High Let Us Swell Our Tuneful Notes (Doddridge, from Chandler, 1837)

• High Let Us Swell Our Tuneful Notes – Version 2,
      Alternate Title: High O'er The Lonely Hills (Notes Only; Jan Struther (1901-1953), copyright 1931)

• High Word Of God, Who Once Didst Come

• Hills of the North, Rejoice

• Him I Have So Long Desired

• Him We Sing, Whose Wondrous Story

• Him Whom the Skies, the Earth, the Sea

• Him, Of The Father's Very Essence

• His Arm The' Almighty Father Bared

• His Servants in Their Low Estate

• Hither, Ye Faithful, Adoring, Triumphant (Summers, 1874)

• Hither, Ye Faithful, Haste With Songs of Triumph

• Ho! Merry Herdmen

• Ho! Steward, Bid My Servants

• Holiday Season, The (Words and Music by Kay Thompson, copyright 1955; link opens at new site.)

• Hob & Colin, Yule Is Come

• Holidaze (Humor from Bob Rivers, Bob Rivers’ Twisted Tunes)

• Holvyr And Heyvy Made A Gret Party (Wright, 1847)

• Holver and Heivy Made A Grete Party (Chambers & Sidgwick)

• Holly And Ivy (Made A Great Party; Husk, 1868)

• Holly and the Ivy, The

• Holly And The Ivy, The, Emily Chisholm (1910-1991) © 1972 Stainer & Bell Ltd.

• Holy Babe, Our Great Salvation

• The Holly Bough (The cheerful days of Spring are fine)

• Holy Child (Copyright Timothy Dudley-Smith)

• Holy Chyrch of Hym Makyth Mynd

• The Holy Children Boldly Stand

• The Holy Innocents To-day

• Holy Love Towards Her Foes

• Holy maiden, blessed thou be (Singe we, singe we) (Rickert)

• Holy Maydyn, Blyssid Thou Be (Wright, 1856)

• Holy Night - Wendte

• Holy Night, Calmly Bright (Translation by Mary D. Moultrie;  "Watch we where in slumber light," translation of a poem written by Johann Ludwig Uhland (1787-1862), not Joseph Mohr as previously reported by John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Second Edition, 1907).

• Holy Night, Peaceful Night (Translation by Miss Jane Montgomery Campbell, 1862; "All is dark, save the light"); This and the next four are translations of Stille Nacht! Heilige Nacht!

• Holy Night, Peaceful Night (Translation by Alfred Bell, circa 1869, an adaptation of the Campbell translation; "Through the darkness beams a light / Yonder, where they sweet vigils keep")

• Holy Night! Peaceful Night! (Translator unknown; pub. 1896; "Through the darkness beams a light / Where the angels vigils keep")

• Holy Night! Silent Night! (Translator unknown, ca. 1905; "Round the gentle mother and child")

• Holy Night, Silent Night (Translator unknown, ca. 1918; "All things sleep, Angels bright")

• Holy Son Of God Most High, The

• Holy Was That Night So Fair

• Holy Well, The (Alternate Title: As It Fell Out One May Morning)

• Holy, Blessed Trinity

• Home for the Holidays (Words by Al Stillman; Music by Robert Allen, copyright 1954)

• Home On Christmas Day (Written by Cyndi Lauper, Rob Hyman, William Wittman, copyright 1998;  from the CD Merry Christmas Have A Nice Life; page opens in new window at the Cyndi Lauper web site)

• Homeless (Words and Music: Michael McLean (1952-), The Forgotten Carols (Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret Book Co., 1991, rev. 2003). Links open at exterior sites.

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

• Hosanna to Christ

• Hosanna to King David's Son

• Hosanna To The Highest Joy Betide

• Hosanna To The Living Lord

• Hosanna! Raise the Pealing Hymn

• Hosanna to the Prince of Light (Of David's ancient line) by Anonymous

• Hosanna! To The Prince of Light (Who clothed himself in clay) by Isaac Watts

• Hostis Herodes impie - Wm. Herebert (First Line: Herodes, thou wykked fo, wharof ys thy dredinge ?)

• The House Of Christmas (First line: There fared a mother driven forth)

• The Housholders New-yeeres Gift

• How Beauteous Are Their Feet

• How Beautiful The Morning Star (Philip Pusey, alt. in Hymnologia Christiana, 1863)

• How Beautiful The Morning Star (Philip Pusey, alt. in The Salisbury Hymnal, 1867)

• How Beautiful The Morning Star (Philip Pusey, alt. in the Sarum Hymnal, 1868)

• How Beautiful Upon The Mountains

• How Blest Were They On Bethlehem's Plain

• How Blest With More Than Woman's Bliss

• How Bright Appears Our Morning Star (Hopkins) (German: Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern)

• How Bright Appears The Morning Star (Jacobi)

• How Bright Appears the Morning Star (Mercer)

• How Bright Was The Glory

• How Brightly Shines the Morning Star (Composite)

• How Brightly Shines the Morning Star (Borthwick)

• How Brightly Beams the Morning Star (Winkworth); compare: O Morning Star, How Fair and Bright  (Winkworth, second version)

• How Brightly Dawns The Morning Star (Hymnologia Christiana)

• How Brightly Glows the Morning-Star (Stryker)

• How Brightly Shines the Morning Star (Sloan, #2)

• How Fair The Morning Star Doth Shine (Keyte and Parrott, The New Oxford Book of Carols, copyright 1992)

• How Fairly Shines The Morning Star (Lyra Davidica, 1708)

• How Far From Home

• How Far Is It To Bethlehem (Alternate Title: Children's Song Of The Nativity)

• How Glad I Am Each Christmas Eve (Alternate Titles: I Am So Glad Each Christmas Eve and I Am So Happy Each Christmas Eve; Norwegian: Jeg Er Saa Glad Hyer Julekveld)

• How Glorious in the Morning Sun

• How Good, Lord, To Be Here

• How Graciously Doth Shine Afar

• How Great Our Joy (While By The Sheep)

• How Happy That Distinguish'd Pair

• How Kind is Heaven to Man!

• How Long, O Lord, How Long, We Ask

• How Long, The Prophets Cried, How Long, Fred Pratt Green (1903-2000) © 1989 Stainer & Bell Ltd.

• How Lovely Now The Morning-star (Cox, Hymns from the German. Second Edition, pp. 3-9)

• How Lovely Now The Morning Star, (Cox, Hymns from the German. Second Edition, pp. 229-235)

• How Lovely Now The Morning Star (Cox, alt., in Hopkins; German: Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern)

• How Lovely Shines the Morning Star (Cox, alt.)

• How Lovely Shines the Morning Star (Harbaugh)

• How Many Credit Cards Must One Man Own (Humor)

• How Precious Is The Story

• How Sang The Heavenly Army

• How Shall I Meet Thee? How My Heart (Compare: O How Shall I Receive Thee? and O Lord, How Shall I Meet You)

• How Shall I Sing That Majesty

• How Silent Waits the Listening Earth (Timothy Dudley-Smith, copyright 1995; link opens at David Lee's Service Music)

• How Sweet The Angels' Song

• How The Banner'd Angels

• How Vain the Cruel Herod's Fear

• How Vain Was Impious Herod's Dread

• Huron Carol, The (Twas in the Moon of Winter Time)

• Husbande of Mary, The (Middle English; retyped in Old Blackletter)

• Husbandman and Servingman

• Hush! My Dear, Lie Still and Slumber

• Hush, All Ye Sounds of War

• Hush, Hush, Hush

• Hush, My Babe

• Hymn For Christmas Day - Taylor (First Line: "Where is this blessed Babe?")

• The Hymn For Conquering Martyrs Raise

• Hymn For New Year [First Line: "Great God, we sing that mighty hand"]

• Hymn To The Holy Family - Contemporary Idiom

• Hymn To The Holy Family - Traditional Idiom

• Hymn To The Virgin

  

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