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Index of the Hymns and Carols of Christmas

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• I Am Christmas

• I Am Here, Sir Christemas

• I Am Here, Sir Christhismas

• I Am Here, Syre Christmasse (Middle English)

• I am here, syre Crystesmass - Thomas Wright

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

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

• I Believe In Father Christmas (Greg Lake and Peter Sinfield, copyright)

• I Believe In Santa Claus (Kenny Rodgers and Dolly Parton, copyright 1984. There is another song with the same title with lyrics by Raymond B. Egan (1890 - ) and music by John Frederick Coots (1897 - ), published in 1945.  I do not have a copy of this song.)

• I Cannot Tell

• I Come From Heaven To Tell

• I Come From Heuin To Tell (Middle English)

• I Come, The Great Redeemer Cries (Words: Christian Hymnbook, 1865, as alt. in #116, The Hymnal 1982)

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

• I Hear Along Our Street

• I Heard A Mess Of Merry Shepherds Sing

• I Heard An Infant Weeping

• I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day (Music by John Baptiste Calkin, 1872)

• I Heard The Bells on Christmas Day (Music by John D. Marks, copyright 1956)

• I Heard The Bells on Christmas Day (Original Longfellow poem: Christmas Bells)

• I Heard The Church Bells Ringing (Alternate Title: Christmas Bells - Words and Music by Sydney Cross)

• I Know A Kingdom Without End

• I Know Not How That Bethlehem’s Babe

• I Love To Hear Sweet Voices Sing

• I Love To Hear The Story

• I Love To Tell The Story

• I Need Thee, Precious Jesus

• I Pray On Christmas (Harry Connick, Jr., copyright 1993)

• I Saw A Fair Maiden

• I Saw A Sweet And Seemly Sight

• I Saw A Sweet And Silly Sight

• I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus (Words & Music by Tommie Conner, copyright 1952)

• I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus (I Saw Elvis Dressed As Santa Claus – Humor)

• I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus (I Saw Teacher Kissing Santa Chlorine – Humor)

• I Saw Three Ships - Version 1 (Alternate Title: Christmas Morning; with Sandys' Notes)

• I Saw Three Ships - Version 2

• I Saw Three Ships (Alternate Version: As I Sat On A Sunny Bank)

• I Shall You Tell A Great Marvel

• I shall you tell this ylke nyght (Middle English; retyped in Old Blackletter)

• I Should Like To Have Heard  (Alternate Title: The First Christmas Night)

• I Sing Of A Night in Bethlehem (Don Oiche Ud I mBeithil)

• I Sing Of A Maiden

• I Sing the Birth Was Born Tonight - Version 1

• I Sing The Birth Was Born Tonight - Version 2 (Version 3 from William Sandys is substantially the same, but without attribution)

• I Traveled Over Land and Sea (Words: Jeg gikk meg over sjø og land)

• I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas (Words and Music: John Rox, copyright 1953)

• I Was Born In A Stall

• I Was Not His Father, He Was Mine (Words and Music: Michael McLean (1952-), The Forgotten Carols (Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret Book Co., 1991, rev. 2003). Links open at exterior sites.

• I Wonder As I Wander (Collected by John Jacob Niles in July, 1933)

• I Would Now Sing For And I Might (Alternate Title: The Three Kings)

• I’ll Be Home For Christmas (Words and Music by Kim Gannon, Buck Ram, and Walter Kent, copyright 1948; Notes)

• I'll Tell You A Tale Of The Olden Time

• I’ll Be Home For Christmas (I’ll Be Cloned For Christmas – Humor)

• Il Est Ne Le Divin Enfant

• I'll Be Missing You Come Christmas (Authorship Unknown; Performed by New Kids On The Block)

• I'll Tell You A Tale Of The Olden Time

• I’m Dressing Up Like Santa (Humor from Bob Rivers, Bob Rivers’ Twisted Tunes)

• I'm A Pilgrim And Will Walk With Jesus

• I’m Gonna Be Warm This Winter (Date and Authorship Unknown)

• I'm Sending Me (For Christmas) (Don "Carolina" Pierce, 1994; links opens in new window at the Austin Rudy website)

• I'm Spending Christmas With You (Words and Music by Tom Occhipinti, 1981)

• I've Been Looking For Christmas (Kevin Savigar and Patti Smythe, Date Unknown)

• If thou be Johan, I tell it the (Middle English; retyped in Old Blackletter)

• If Every Day Was Like Christmas

• If I Could Visit Bethlehem, Brian Wren (born 1936) © 1990 Stainer & Bell Ltd

• If I Had Been in Bethlehem (Link opens in a new window at Sally DeFord Music)

• If It Doesn't Snow On Christmas (Words by Milton H. Pascal, Music by Gerald Marks, copyright 1943)

• If Jesus Christ Should Come Again

• Immanuel, We Sing Thy Praise

• Immanuel, Immanuel (Link opens in a new window at Sally DeFord Music)

• Immortal Babe, Who This Dear Day (Middle English)

• Immortal Babe Who This Dear Day (Bramley and Stainer; Alternate Title: For Christmas Day)

• Immortal Love, Forever Full

• In A Cavern Oxen-Trod

• In A Little Stable

• In A Lowly Manger Sleeping

• In A Manger (Alternate Title: In A Manger Poor)

• In A Manger He Is Lying

• In A Manger Laid So Lowly

• In A Manger Lies The Child (Alternate Title: Ring The Joyful Bells)

• In Bedlem, That Fayer Cyte

• In Beth'lem This Berd Of Life

• In Bethlehem, That Fair City

• In Betheleem, That Noble Place - Version 1

• In Betheleem, That Noble Place - Version 2 (Middle English; retyped in Old Blackletter)

• In Betheleem, that noble place - Thomas Wright

• In Bethlehem City

• In Bethlehem City, On Christmas-day Morn

• In Bethlehem Is He Born

• In Bethlehem Of Judah

• In Bethlehem, That Noble Place (Sandys; Middle English: In Betheleem, That Noble Place)

• In Bethlehem, That Noble Place (Husk)

• In Bethlehem, The Lowly

• In Bethlem Town (Words: Leland Bryant Ross, 1997, link opens a new window at his site)

• In Cana's Town of Galilee

• In Days of Old on Sinai

• In Dulci Iubilo - Webberburn (from Rickert)

• In Dulci Jubilo - Original Version; See: In Dulci Jubilo - Notes On The Carol

• In Dulci Jubilo – Version 1, Translation by Elizabeth Poston (Fourteenth-century German/Latin macaronic carol Nun singet und seid froh by Heinrich of Suso)

• In Dulci Jubilo – Version 2, Alternate Translation by Elizabeth Poston

• In Dulci Jubilo – Version 3, Translation by Pearsall

• In Dulci Jubilo – Version 4, Translation by SP

• In Dulci Jubilo – Version 5, Translation by Catherine Winkworth

• In Dulci Jubilo - Version 6, Translator Unknown; Carol #497, Charles L. Hutchins, Carols Old and Carols New (1916)

• In Dulci Jubilo - Version 7, Translation by George R. Woodward

• In Dulci Iubilo - Version 8, Translation by John Wedderburn

• In Dulci Jubilo - Version 9; Translation by the Editors; Hugh Keyte and Andrew Parrott, eds., The New Oxford Book of Carols, 1992

• In Every Place I Shall Tell This

• In Excelsis Gloria ("When Christ Was Born of Mary Free") – Version 1

• In Excelsis Gloria ("When Christ Was Born of Mary Free") – Version 2

• In Excelsis Gloria ("When Christ Was Born of Mary Free") – Version 3

• In Excelsis Gloria ("When Christ Was Born of Mary Free") – Version 4

• In Friendly Love And Unity

• In Heaven, In Heaven So Great Is The Joy

• In His Temple Now Behold Him

• In Honour Of Saint John We Thus

• In Midnight’s Silence (Alternate Title: In the Quiet Night; Translation from Polish: Wsrod Nocnej Ciszy; another translation is Wondrous Child)

• In Night's Deep Silence

• In Night's Dim Shadows Lying

• In Numbers, And But These Few (Middle English)

• In Old Judea

• In Our Darkness Light Has Shone (Timothy Dudley-Smith, copyright 1997; link opens at David Lee's Service Music)

• In Peace And Joy I Now Depart

• In Praise Of Christmas (Alternate title to "Drive The Cold Winter Away.")

• In Sorrow And In Want

• In Stature Grows the Heavenly Child

• In Terra Pax

• In The Country Nigh To Bethlehem

• In The Bleak Midwinter

• In The Bliss of Old Predicted

• In the Dark and Silent Night

• In The Early Morning

• In The Ending Of The Year - Version 1

• In The Ending Of The Year - Version 2

• In The Ending Of The Year - Version 3

• In The Hallowed Manger

• In The Field With Their Flocks Abiding

• In The Loft Sits The Pixy With His Christmas Porridge (Words: På loftet sidder nissen med sin julegrøød, Margrethe Munthe)

• In The Lonely Midnight

• In The Midst Of Gladness, Sorrow

• In The Midst Of The Doctors

• In the Morning (Words and Music by Dan Schutte, S.J., copyright)

• In The Reign Of Great Caesar

• In The Silence Of The Night

• In The Wintry Heaven

• In This Stable

• In This Time Of Christmas

• In this tyme a chyld was born - Thomas Wright

• In this tyme Cryst hast us sent -  Thomas Wright

• In this tyme of Chrystmas (Middle English; retyped in Old Blackletter)

• In This Vale Of Wretchedness

• In These Twelve Days (Davies Gilbert)

• In Those Twelve Days (William Sandys)

• Incarnation, The

• Infant Holy, Infant Lowly (Polish carol, W Zlobie Lezy; compare Jesus Holy, Born So Lowly)

• The Infant King

• Infant So Gentle

• Into This World, This Day Did Come

• Ipse mocat me (Middle English; retyped in Old Blackletter)

• Irish Carol (Alternate Title: Christmas Day Is Come)

• Is Thy Heart Athirst To Know

• It Came Upon The Midnight Clear

• It Came Upon The Midnight Clear (It Came Upon a Football Field, For Green Bay Fans – Humor;
      opens in a new window at RabidFans.com, Copyright 1997 Dale & Pru Palecek)

• It Came Upon The Midnight Clear (It Came Upon the Rockies High, For Denver Fans – Humor;
      opens in a new window at RabidFans.com, Copyright 1998 Dale & Pru Palecek)

• It Came Upon The Midnight Clear (Our Papa Bear, For Chicago Fans – Humor;
      opens in a new window at RabidFans.com, Copyright 1998 Dale & Pru Palecek)

• It Doesn't Have To Be That Way (Words and Music by Jim Croce, copyright 1972)

• It Feels Like Christmas (Authorship Unknown; Performed by Cyndi Lauper; from the CD Merry Christmas Have A Nice Life; page opens in new window at the Cyndi Lauper web site)

• It Is Christmas Day

• It Is The Day, The Holy Day

• It was a mayde of brente nars (Middle English; retyped in Old Blackletter)

• It Was A Young Mother

• It Was My Father's Custom

• It Was The Calm And Silent Night

• It’s A Big Country (Davitt Sigerson, Date Unknown)

• It’s Beginning To Look a Lot Like Christmas (Words & Music by Meredith Willson, 1961)

• It’s Beginning To Look a Lot Like Christmas (There’s A Santa Who Looks A Lot Like Elvis – Humor from Bob Rivers, Bob Rivers’ Twisted Tunes)

• It's Christmas All Over the World (Words and Music by Bill House and John Hobe, 1985)

• It's Christmas Everywhere (Authorship and Date Unknown; Performed by Paul Anka)

• It's Christmas Once Again (Authorship and Date Unknown; Performed by Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers)

• It's Christmas Time (Victor Young and Al Stillman, Copyright 1962)

• It’s Just Another New Year’s Eve (Marty Panzer and Barry Manilow, Date Unknown)

• It’s Snowing Angels (Authorship and Date Unknown; Performed by XTC)

• Ivy, Chief Of Trees (Husk, 1968); compare Ivy Chefe Off Treis It Is (Wright, 1847)

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• Jacob’s Ladder

• Jehovah, Hallelujah, The Lord Will Provide

• Jennifer Gentle

• Jerusalem, Lift Up Thy Voice

• Jerusalem, Rejoice!

• Jesu Parvule (Bates Burt and Alfred Burt, copyright 1943; opens in new window at the  Alfred Burt Carols web site)

• Jesu Hail! (Alternate title: Jesu Hail! O God Most Holy)

• Jesu Sweet

• Jesu, As Thou Art Our Saviour

• Jesu, Blessed Saviour

• Jesu, Born To Save The Lost

• Jesu, Bright And Morning Star

• Jesu, Day By Day

• Jesu, Fili Dei

• Jesu, Fili virginis - Version 1

• Jesu, Fili virginis - Version 2

• Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring

• Jesu, The Father’s Only Son

• Jesu, Thou The Virgin Born

• Jesu! The Very Thought Is Sweet (Translation of Jesu dulcis memoria)

• Jesu! The Very Thought Of Thee! (Translation of Jesu dulcis memoria)

• Jesus Born In Beth'ny

• Jesus Born On This Day (Mariah Carey and Walter Afanasieff, Date Unknown)

• Jesus Came--The Heavens Adoring

• Jesus Christ Is Born Today

• Jesus Christ Of Nazareth

• Jesus Christ The Apple Tree (First Line: The tree of life my soul hath seen)

• Jesus Comes Today! Brian Wren (born 1936) © 1986 Stainer & Bell Ltd.

• Jesus Gift, The (Gilbert M. Martin, copyright)

• Jesus Holy, Born So Lowly (Walter Ehret, Copyright 1963)

• Jesus Is God's Gift To Us, Fred Pratt Green (1903-2000) © 1972 Stainer & Bell Ltd

• Jesus Is The Sweetest Name, Set

• Jesus Shall Reign Where'er the Sun

• Jesus Was Born In Bethlehem (Words and Music by Ralph Merrifield, copyright 1994, used with permission)

• Jesus, Call Thou Me

• Jesus, Good Above All Other

• Jesus, Jesus, Baby Dear ("Rocking Carol," Translation of Hajej, nynej, Jezisku by George K. Evans, copyright 1963)

• Jesus, Jesus, Rest Your Head (Alternate Title: The Manger Cradle Song)

• Jesus, Lord, at Thy Birth (Link opens in a new window at Sally DeFord Music)

• Jesus, Lover of My Soul

• Jesus, My Bright And Morning Star

• Jesus, Oh What A Wonderful Child

• Jesus, Priceless Treasure

• Jesus, Redeemer Of Us All, Alan Gaunt (born 1935) from Anonymous Latin Jesu, Redemptor omnium © 1991 Stainer & Bell Ltd.

• Jesus, Savior, Pilot Me

• Jesus, Still Lead On

• Jesus, The Father's Only Son

• Jesus, The Very Thought Of Thee

• Jesus, These Eyes Have Never Seen

• Jesus, Thou Joy Of Loving Hearts (Translation of Jesu dulcis memoria)

• Jesus, Thy Church with Longing Eyes

• Jesus, Name of Wondrous Love!

• Jesus, You Are Welcome

• Jesus! Guide Our Way

• Jesus’s Birthday (Humor from Bob Rivers, Bob Rivers’ Twisted Tunes)

• Jhesu, as thou art our savyour - Thomas Wright

• Jhesu of a mayde thou woldest be borne - Thomas Wright

• Jhesu Of A Mayde Y^u Woldest Be Born (Middle English from Sandys)

• Jing-A-Ling, Jing-A-Ling (Words and Music by Don Raye and Paul J. Smith, Date Approximately 1950)

• Jingle Bell Rock (Words & Music by Joe Beal and Jim Boothe, 1957)

• Jingle Bells (Original Title: "One-Horse Open Sleigh")

• Jingle Bells (Another Jingle Bell$ / Dashing Through The Mall – Humor)

• Jingle Bells (Australian – Humor)

• Jingle Bells (Christmas Bills / Dashing To The Mall – Humor)

• Jingle Bells (Dashing Through the Line, For Chicago Fans– Humor; opens in a new window at RabidFans.com, Copyright 1998 Dale & Pru Palecek)

• Jingle Bells (Desert Version – Humor)

• Jingle Bells (Have A Jewish Christmas – Humor)

• Jingle Bells (Java Bells – Humor)

• Jingle Bells (Jingle Bells With Kids – Humor)

• Jingle Bells (Jingle Bells, Prison Cells – Humor)

• Jingle Bells (Lab Reports - Humor)

• Jingle Bells (Microsoft Version – Humor)

• Jingle Bells (Profits Here, Profits There – Humor)

• Jingle Bells (Rusty Chevrolet – Humor)

• Jingle Bells (Touchdown Time, For Pittsburgh Fans– Humor; opens in a new window at RabidFans.com, Copyright 1998 Dale & Pru Palecek)

• Jingle Bells (Touchdown Time in Denver, For Denver – Humor; opens in a new window at RabidFans.com, Copyright 1998 Dale & Pru Palecek)

• Jingle Bells (Traffic Jam – Humor)

• Jingle Bells (Yorkie Version – Humor)

• Jingle Bells (Words: Otto Leisner, Bjældeklang)

• Jingle, Jingle, Jingle (Alternate Title: Kris Kringle, John D. Marks, copyright 1964)

• John Was The Prophet Of The Lord

• Jolly Grinder, The

• Jolly Old Saint Nicholas

• Jolly Old Saint Nicholas (Jolly Jim McMahon, For Chicago Fans– Humor; opens in a new window at RabidFans.com, Copyright 1998 Dale & Pru Palecek)

• Jolly Old Saint Nicholas (Jolly Old Coach Holmgren, For Green Bay Fans– Humor; opens in a new window at RabidFans.com, Copyright 1997 Dale & Pru Palecek)

• Jolly Old Saint Nicholas (Jolly Terry Bradshaw, For Pittsburgh Fans– Humor; opens in a new window at RabidFans.com, Copyright 1998 Dale & Pru Palecek)

• Joseph Being An Aged Man (with Sandys' note) (Alternate Title: Joseph and Mary)

• Joseph Being An Old Man Truly

• Joseph Dearest, Joseph Mine – Version 1

• Joseph Dearest, Joseph Mine – Version 2

• Joseph Dearest, Joseph Mine – Version 3

• Joseph Dearest, Joseph Mine – Joseph Dearest, Joseph Mild

• Joseph Dearest, Joseph Mine – Joseph, O Dear Joseph Mine

• Joseph Dearest, Joseph Mine – German, Josef, Lieber Josef Mein

• Joseph Was A Young Man

• Joseph Was An Old Man - Version 1(Southern Appalachia)

• Joseph Was An Old Man - Version 2 (Kentucky)

• Joseph Was An Old Man - Version 3 (Cherry Tree Carols)

• Joseph Was An Old Man - Version 4 (Cherry Tree Carols)

• Joseph Was An Olden Man - Niles

• Joseph Was An Old Man (Part 1 of the Cherry Tree Carols)

• Joseph Were A Young Man

• Joy And Gladness

• The Joy Bells Of Heaven

• Joy Fills Our Inmost Hearts Today!

• The Joy That Jesus Gives

• Joy To The World – Popular Version

• Joy To The World – Watt's Original

• Joy To The World - Version 3 (From 'Sylvestre')

• Joy To The World - Version 4 (From Husk)

• Joy To The World (Christmas Is Here – Humor)

• Joy, Ye People, Great And Small

• Joy! Joy! From Every Steeple

• Joyful Is The Morn (Alternate Title: Once Again The Olden Story)

• Joyful Morn in Breaking, The

• Joyful Tidings Of A Saviour

• Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee

• Joyfully, Joyfully Angels Are Singing

• Joyous Christmas (Johnny Marks, copyright 1969)

• Joyously, Joyously, Silvery Clear

• Joys Seven (Alternate Title: The First Good Joy Our Mary Had)

• Jubilee (Performed by Mary Chapin Carpenter)

• Judge Eternal, Throned in Splendor

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