Index of the Hymns and Carols of Christmas K-L Notes
1. All links open in a new window 2. Where multiple versions of a hymn or carol exists,
notes concerning the song will be found at the bottom of the first version. 3. You can search for a carol or hymn by using the [CTRL] + F combination -K-Kay Thompson's Jingle Bells (Words and Music by Kay Thompson (1909?-1998), Johnny Mandel (1925-), and James S. Pierpont (1822-1893), copyright 1968 - although it was certainly written earlier since Andy Williams recorded it in 1963; links open at a new site.) Keep Christmas With You All Through The Year (From "Christmas Eve on Sesame Street"; authorship and date unknown) Kid In Me, The (By Don Koch, Dave Clark and Dan Dean, Date Unknown) Kidnap The Sandy Claws (From "The Nightmare Before Christmas", Authorship and Date Unknown) Kindle The Christmas Brand The kiges baner on felde is playd (Middle English; retyped in Old Blackletter) King Herod And The Cock King Herod, Troubled With The Star King Jesus Hath A Garden (Dutch: Heer Jesus heeft een Hofken) The King Of Glory Sends His Son The King of KingsKing of Israel (Written by Joseph W. Pace II, copyright 1996, performed by the Colorado Mass Choir; it is found on the 1996 CD "The Real Meaning of Christmas"; link opens in a new window at Amazon.com) King Pharaoh King Shall Come When Morning Dawns, TheKing, To Jews and Gentiles Given Kings In Glory Kings of the East Are Riding, The The Kings They Came From Out The South Kings, The (Alternate Title: Three Kings Had Journey'd From Lands Afar) Kings, Their Threefold Offerings Bringing Knowing Not The Great Creator
-L-Lacking Samite And Sable Lands That Long In Darkness Lay, The L'An Mil Sies Cens Quaranto Cinc (French, from William Sandys, 1833) Last Christmas (George Michael - Wham, 1985) Last Month Of The Year (Vera Hall, copyright 1953) Last Night As I Lay Sleeping Last Night As I Was Laid And Sleep (Alternate Title: The Boy's Dream) Last Night I Lay Me Down To Sleep Last Night I Saw Santa (New Kids On The Block, Authorship and Date Unknown)Laud, Ye Faithful Lazarus Legends Of The Infancy (Alternate Title: Come Forth, Ye Wond'ring Children All) Les Clothes Du Hameau (Music Arr.: Ric Wake, Shane Keister, Ronn Huff; Created 1998; Copyright 1999, Performed by Celine Dion) Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence Let All That Are To Mirth Inclined Let Christians All With One Accord Rejoice (Alternate Title: The Black Decree) Let Christians All With One Accord Rejoice - Version 2 Let Christians All With Joyful Mirth (A Yoeman's Carol) Let Earth And Heaven Combine Let Every Heart Now Dance With JoyLet Folly Praise That Fancy Love Let Hearts And Tongues Unite Let Heav’n And Earth Rejoice And Sing - Version 1 Let Heaven and Earth Rejoice And Sing - Version 2 Let Heaven Rejoice (Words and Music: Bob Dufford, S.J., copyright) Let Him In (Words and Music: Michael McLean (1952-), The Forgotten Carols (Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret Book Co., 1991, rev. 2003). Links open at exterior sites. Let it Snow! Let it Snow! Let it Snow! (Words by Sammy Cahn, Music by Jule Styne, copyright 1945) Let it Snow! Let it Snow! Let it Snow! (I Hate Snow – Humor) Let it Snow! Let it Snow! Let it Snow! (Prove It’s So – Humor) Let it Snow! Let it Snow! Let it Snow! (The Net Is Slow – Humor) Let Me Sleep (It's Christmas Time) (Pearl Jam, 1991) Let Music Break On This Blest Morn Let Our Gladness Have No End (Alternate Title: Let Our Gladness Know No End) Let Sighing Cease And Woe - Version 1 Let Sighing Cease And Woe - Version 2 Let Sion And Her Sons Rejoice Let Such (So Fantastical) Liking Not This Let The Doors Be Open Let The Earth Now Praise The Lord Let The Song Be Begun (Personent hodie from Piae Cantiones, 1582; Translation by John Mason Neale) Let The Earth Now Praise The Lord Let The Laurel Twine Let The Voice of Praise Resound Let The Voice of Praise Resound (Latin: Resonet in Laudibus 1) Let The Voice of Praise Resound (Latin: Resonet in Laudibus 2) Let The Voice of Praise Resound (Latin: Resonet in Laudibus 3) Let There Be Peace On Earth (Words and Music: Sy Miller and Bill Jackson, Date Unknown) Let Us All With Gladsome VoiceLet Us Duly Keep The Feast Let Us Go, O Shepherds Let Us Now Go To Bethlehem Let Us Rejoice In Christ, Fred Pratt Green (1903-2000) © 1982 Stainer & Bell Ltd. Let Us Remember Let Us The Infant Greet Let's Have An Old Fashioned Christmas (Words: Larry Conley (1985-1960), Music: Joseph Solomon (18497-1947), copyright 1939) Let Us Live Christmas Every Day - Helen Steiner Rice (May 19, 1900 - April 23, 1981), copyright. Letter To Syracuse (Dave Cartwright and Bill Caddick, Date Unknown)The Life, Which God's Incarnate Word Life's Course Must Recommence To-day Lift Up Your Heads, Ye Gates of Brass Lift Up Your Heads, Ye Mighty Gates - Version 1 (Translation of Georg Weissel, Macht hoch die Tuer) Lift Up Your Heads, Ye Mighty Gates - Version 2 (Original Winkworth Translation of Georg Weissel, Macht hoch die Tuer) Lift Up Your Heartes And Be Glad! Lift Up, Lift Up Your Voices Now Light of Bethlehem, The Light of Glory Breaks, The (Timothy Dudley-Smith, copyright 2002; link opens at David Lee's Service Music)Light Of The Gentile Nations Light of the Lonely Pilgrim's Heart Light of Those Whose Dreary Dwelling Like Fields Awaiting The Sowing Of The Seed, Fred Kaan (born 1929) based on the Catalan by Alberto Taulé © 1993 Stainer & Bell Ltd. Like Silver Lamps In A Distant Shrine (Alternate Title: The Manger Throne) Like The Dawning Of The Morning List Our Merry Carol List! Afar! What Angel Voices (Alternate Title: Child Divine) Listen How The Winds (Traditional Dutch Sinterklaas Song: Hoor de wind waait door de bomen) Listen, Gentles, To The Story Listen, Lordings, Unto Me - Version 1 (Carol for Christmas Eve) Listen, Lordings, Unto Me - Version 2 Listeneth, lordings, both great and small (Alternate: A, a, a, a) Little Altar Boy (Howlett Peter Smith, 1957) Little Boy Santa Claus Forgot (Tommie Connor, Jimmy Leach and Michael Carr, copyright 1937) Little Children, Can You Tell? Little Children, Rise and SingLittle Children, Wake And Listen Little Cradle Rocks Tonight, The Little Donkey (Words and Music: Eric Boswell, copyright 1959) Little Drummer Boy, The (Words and Music by Katherine K. Davis, Henry Onorati, and Harry Simeone, 1958) Little Drummer Boy, The (Little Spammer Boy – Humor) Little Fir Tree, The Little Lamb of God (Words and Music by Lynne Perry Christofferson, Date unknown) The Little Room Little Saint Nick (Words and Music by Brian Wilson and Mike Love, copyright 1963, 1964) Little Town (Words O Little Town of Bethlehem, Traditional; Music by Chris Eaton, 1982; From A Christmas Album, Amy Grant; link open in a new window at the website of Amy Grant) Live Aid Christmas Song (Do They Know It's Christmas?) M. Ure and B. Geldof, Date Unknown Lo He Comes, With Clouds DescendingLo, How A Rose E’er Blooming – Version 1 (Lo, how a rose e'er blooming, From tender stem hath sprung!; Baker and Krauth Translations). See: Notes on Lo, How A Rose E'er Blooming Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming – Version 2 (Lo, how a rose e’er blooming, On tender root has grown; Translator Unknown.) Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming – Version 3 (Alternate Translation: I Know a Rose Tree Springing; Translator Unknown) Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming – Version 4 (Alternate Translation: Behold, a Branch is Growing; Translators: Spaeth and Mattes) Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming – Version 5 (Alternate Translation: A Spotless Rose Is Blowing; Alternate Title: The Rose of Sharon; Translator: Catherine Winkworth) Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming – Version 6 (Alternate Translation: Behold, a Branch Has Flowered; Translator: Unknown ) Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming – Version 7 (Alternate Translation: There Is A Flower Springing; Translator: Ursula Vaughan Williams, The Oxford Book of Carols, copyright 1928) Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming – Version 8 (Alternate Translation: Of Jesse's Line Descended; Translators: Hugh Keyte and Andrew Parrott, The New Oxford Book of Carols, copyright 1992) Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming – Version 9 (Alternate Translation: Lo, How A Rose Is Growing, Translation by Gracia Grindal, Lutheran Book of Worship, 58, copyright circa 1978) Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming – Version 10 (Alternate Translation: The World's Fair Rose Has Blossomed, Translator Elizabeth Poston, The Penguin Book of Christmas Carols, 1965) Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming – Version 11 (Alternate Translation: Lo, A Fair Rose A-Blooming, Translators Coffin and Vernon) Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming - Version 12, Translator Unknown Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming - Version 13: The Noble Stem of Jesse, Translator: George R. Woodward Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming - Version 14, I Know A Flower it springeth, From earth a tender shoot; Translator: George R. Woodward Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming - German, Es Ist Ein Ros Lo, The Pilgrim Magi! - Version 1 Lo, The Pilgrim Magi! - Version 2 Lo: A Star, Ye Sages Hoary Lo! A Wonder-star Doth ShineLo! He Comes! Let All Adore Him Lo! God, Our God, Has Come Lo! Now A Thrilling Voice Sounds Forth Lo! Star Led Chiefs Lo! The Desert-Depths Are Stirr'd Lo! Today Into Our World The Word Is Born, Aujourd'hui dans notre monde le Verbe est né by Didier Rimaud (born 1922) and translated by Fred Pratt Green (1903-2000), English translation © 1974 Stainer & Bell Ltd Lo! Unto Us A Child Is BornLo! What Glorious Sight Appears Lon De La Gran Carriere (French, from William Sandys, 1833) Lone Cow Lows, The, John Ferguson (1921-1989) © 1982 Stainer & Bell LtdLong Ago Long Ago A Shining Throng Long Ago And Far Away (Words: Resonet In Laudibus, Authorship Anonymous; English Words by Edward Traill Horn III (1909-), copyright 1958) Long Ago In Bethlehem Long Ago, Prophets Knew, Fred Pratt Green (1903-2000) © 1971 Stainer & Bell Ltd. See NoteLong Time Ago, A Wondrous Star Long Years Ago O’er Bethlehem’s Hills (Leigh Richmond Brewer, Date Unknown) Long Years Ago O'er Bethlehem's Hills (Charles Whitney Coombs) Long, Long Ago, The Angel Throng (Alternate Title: The Christmas Story) Look How The Moon Shines Through The Trees (Traditional Dutch Sinterklaas Song: Zie de maan schijnt door de bomen) Look Up To Heaven Look, Here Comes The Steamboat (Traditional Dutch Sinterklaas Song: Zie ginds komt de stoomboot) Look, Shepherds, Look! The Lord And King Of All Things The Lord At First Did Adam Make (From Davies Gilbert) Lord At First Had Adam Made (from William Sandys, compare A Carol for Christmas Eve from Bramley and Stainer) Lord Christ, When First Thou Cam'st to Men (Words: Walter Russell Bowie, copyright 1928) The Lord, He Comes, He Comes To BlessThe Lord, Our Salvation And Light Lord is Come! On Syrian Soil, The The Lord Is Come! The Lord Is Come! Lord of All Power and MightThe Lord Of Glory Lord of Mercy and of Might The Lord Of Might From Sinai's Brow Lord of the Boundless Curves of Space (Words: Albert F. Bayly; Music Christopher Dearnley, copyright) Lord Will Come And Not Be Slow, The Lord, Her Watch Thy Church is Keeping Lord, With What Zeal Did Thy First Martyr Breath Lordes and Ladyes All By Dene (Middle English - Sandys) Lordes and ladyes all by dene (Middle English; retyped in Old Blackletter) Lording and Lady Lordings, From A Distant Home Lordings, Listen To Our Lay Lordynges, I warne yow al be-forn - Thomas Wright Love Came Down At Christmas Love Divine, All Loves Excelling Love Has Come (Words by Amy Grant, 1983; Music by Shane Keister and Michael W. Smith, 1983; From A Christmas Album, Amy Grant; links open in a new window at the websites of Amy Grant and Michael W. Smith, respectively) Love Is The Power (M. Boston, D. Warren, W. Afansmief, copyright date unknown)Love Knows No Borders (Link opens in a new window at Sally DeFord Music) Loveliest Dawn Of Gold And Rose Lovely Is The Dark Blue Sky (Translation from the Danish, "Deilig Er Den Himmel Blaa") Lovely Is The Midnight Sky (Translator: S. A. J. Bradley; link opens in external site; Translation from the Danish, "Deilig Er Den Himmel Blaa" ) Lucy Green Wassail Lullaby, Jesu (Translation of the Polish Carol, "Lulajze Jezuniu" by Alice Zienko, English version by Ruth Heller; First Line: Lullaby, Jesu, my pearl and my dear one) Lullaby, Jesus (Translation of the Polish Carol, "Lulajze Jezuniu"; First Line: Lullaby, Jesus, O cease from your crying.) Lullaby, Jesus (Translation by Terry Kluytmans, Copyright 1999; link opens at an external site in a new window) Lullay, Jesu, Lullay, Lullay! (First Line: So blessed a sight it was to see) Lullaby, Little Pearl (Translation of the Polish Carol, "Lulajze Jezuniu" by Marguerite Wilkinson) Lullay My Liking - Version 1 Lullay My Liking - Version 2 Lullay, Mine Liking Lullay, My Child, And Weep No More Lullay, my chyld, and wepe no more - Thomas Wright Lullay, Thou Little Tiny Child (Alternate Title: The Coventry Carol) Lullaby On Christmas Eve (Alternate Title: Mother Her Vigil Is Keeping) Luther's Carol (Alternate Title: From Highest Heaven I Come To Tell) Lux Venit (Words: Amy Grant and Bev Darnall; Music: Michael W. Smith; 1989; links open in a new window at the websites of Amy Grant and Michael W. Smith, respectively) Lyth and lystyn, both old and 3yng - Thomas Wright
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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
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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