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Index of the Hymns and Carols of Christmas

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Indices of the Hymns and Carols of Christmas:
A - B | - C - | D - G | - H - | I - J | K - L
M - N | - O - | P - R | - S - | - T - | U - Z

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O Babe! In Manger Lying
O Bethlehem
O blesse God in Trinité! - Thomas Wright
O Blessed Day, When First Was Pour'd
O Blessed God In Trinity
O Blessed, Blessed Be The Lord And King
O Blessyd Johan the euangelyst (Middle English; retyped in Old Blackletter)
O Blyssedful Berd, Full Of Grace
O Blessedful Bird, Full Of Grace
O Bride Of Christ, Rejoice
O Chief Of Cities, Bethlehem
O Child Of Lowly Manger Birth
O Child Of Wonder (Alternate Title: Noel, Noel, Noel)
O Child, Most Truly God's Own Son, Fred Pratt Green (1903-2000) from a traditional Swiss text © 1980 Stainer & Bell Ltd
O Christ The Lord, O Christ The King (Words: R. T. Brooks (1918-); Lyrics are copyright; See #496 in The New English Hymnal)
O Christ, Our True And Only Light
O Christ, Redeemer Of Our Race
O Christians, With Triumphant Glee
O Christmas Bells, Ring Far And Near
O Christmas Night!
O Christmas Night! (Dutch Lyrics: O Kersnacht)
O Christmas Tree - Version 1 (German: O Tannenbaum)
O Christmas Tree - Version 2
O Christmas Tree - Version 3
O Christmas Tree - Version 4
O Christmas Tree - Version 5; Translation by George K. Evans ("With faithful leaves unchanging."), copyright 1963, The International Book of Christmas Carols
O Christmas Tree - Version 6; Translation by Bernard Braley ("The tree for every season"), The Galliard Book of Carols
O Christmas Tree - Version 7; Translation by Hugh Keyte and Andrew Parrott ("With faithful leaves unchanging."), The New Oxford Book of Carols (London: Oxford University Press, 1992)
O Christmas Tree - Version 8 ("Your leaves are faithful ever."), Translator unknown.
O Christmas Tree - Version 9 ("With faithful leaves unchanging; different second verse. Translator Unknown.
O Christmas Tree - Version 10 ("Thy leaves are so unchanging"), Translator unknown.
O Christmas Tree - Version 11 ("How true you stand unchanging."), Translator unknown.
O Christmas Tree - Version 12 ("You stand in verdant beauty!"), Translator unknown.
O Christmas Tree - Version 13 ("How lovely are your branches!"), Translator unknown.
O Christmas Tree - Version 14 ("How faithful are thy leaves;"), Translator unknown.
O Christmas Tree - Version 15 ("How beauteous are thy branches."), Translator unknown.
O Christmas Tree - Version 16 ("How steadfast are your branches!"), Translator unknown.
O Christmas Tree - Version 17 ("Your branches green delight us."), Translator unknown.
O Christmas Tree - The Hemlock Tree, Poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
O Christmas Tree - O Faithful Pine
O Christmas Tree - O Christmas Pine
O Christmas Tree (O Lutefisk, O Lutefisk – Humor, Authorship Unknown)
O Christmas Tree (Oh Denver Fans, For Denver Fans– Humor; opens in a new window at RabidFans.com, Copyright 1998 Dale & Pru Palecek)
O Christmas Tree (O Kenneth Starr Of Washington – Humor by Will Hartje, Date Unknown)
O Christmas Tree (Puppy Tree – Humor, Copyright 1996 Dogmama and Detroit Download Central)
O Christmas Tree - The Fir-tree, Translator: Aug. Zarnack.
O Christmas Tree - To The Fir Tree, Translator Unknown
O Christmas, Merry Christmas
O Christmas, You Season of Childlike Delight (Traditional Norwegian, Words and Music by Gustava Keilland, O Jul Med Din Glede; Translation by George K. Evans; source Walter Ehret and George K. Evans, eds., The International Book of Christmas Carols. Fort Lauderdale, FL: Walton Music Corp., 1963.)

O Come, All Ye Faithful - Version 1 (Latin, John Francis Wade, "Adeste Fideles"; Translation by Frederick Oakeley and William Thomas Brooke) See: Notes on Adeste Fidele

O Come, All Ye Faithful – Version 2 (Latin, John Francis Wade, "Adeste Fideles"; Translation by Edward Caswell)

O Come All Ye Faithful - Version 3 (Customary Order of Verses)

O Come, All Ye Faithful - Version 4 (Translator Not Stated)
O Come, All Ye Faithful (It’s Christmas, It’s Christmas – Humor by Howard Ryan, Date Unknown)
O Come, All Ye Faithful (O Come All Ye Grateful Deadheads - Humor from Bob Rivers, Bob Rivers’ Twisted Tunes)
O Come, All Ye Faithful (O Come, All Ye Faithful, For Green Bay Fans– Humor; opens in a new window at RabidFans.com, Copyright 1997 Dale & Pru Palecek)
O Come, All Ye Faithful (O Come, All Ye Gases - Humor by an Unknown Author, Date Unknown)
O Come, All Ye Faithful (Oh Come As They Score Touchdowns, For Pittsburgh Fans– Humor; opens in a new window at RabidFans.com, Copyright 1998 Dale & Pru Palecek)
O Come, All Ye Faithful (Oh Come, All You Fans, For Chicago Fans– Humor; opens in a new window at RabidFans.com, Copyright 1998 Dale & Pru Palecek)
O Come! Come Thou Emmanuel!
O Come, Divine Messiah (Translation of the French carol, Venez Divin Messie)
O Come, Emmanuel, O Come!
O Come! Immanuel, Hear Our Call
O Come Let Us Adore
O Come, Little Children – Version 1
O Come, Little Children – Version 2
O Come, Little Children – Version 3
O Come, Little Children – Version 4
O Come, Little Children – Version 5
O Come, Little Children - Version 6
O Come, O Come Emmanuel – Version 1 (Translation by John Mason Neale, et al)
O Come, O Come Emmanuel – Version 2 (Translated by Thomas Alexander Lacey)
O Come, O Come Emmanuel (Latin, "Veni, Veni Emmanuel")
O Come, O Come, Emmanuel (Come Ye Football Fans, For Green Bay Fans– Humor; opens in a new window at RabidFans.com, Copyright 1997 Dale & Pru Palecek)
O Come, Redeemer Of Mankind (Translation of Veni, Redemptor Gentium)
O Come Rejoicing
O Dark Was The Night
O Day Of God, Draw Nigh (Words: R. B. Y. Scott, copyright 1937)

O Dear Little Children
O Divine King (Tu scendi dalle stelle, Traditional Italian)
O Faithful Pine (German: O Tannenbaum)
O Father, May Thy Word Prevail
O Flos de Jesse Virgula
O For Thy Spirit, Holy John
O Gladsome Light, O Grace
O Glorious Lady, Throned On High
O Glorius Johan Evangelyste
O Glowing East! O Wondrous Sparkling Star!

O God Of Bethel

O God Of God, O Light Of Light
O God, Our Help In Ages Past
O God, That Guides The Cheerful Sun
O Happy Day, When First Was Poured
O Happy Morn
O Haste, The Blessed Babe Is Born
O Hearken Ye (Wihla Hutson and Alfred Burt, copyright 1954; opens in new window at the Alfred Burt Carols web site)
O Heavenly Wisdom, Hear Our Cry
O Heavenly Word Of God On High (Lyrics Are Copyright, #2, Editors, New English Hymnal, 1986)
O Heavenly Word, Eternal Light
O Holy Child, We Welcome Thee
O Holy Night (French, Minuit, chrétiens or Cantique De Noel)
O How Beautiful The Sky (Words: Deilig Er Den Himmel Blaa, Nicolai F. S. Grundtvig (1783-1872); See Also Mike and Else's Norwegian Songbook (Bloomington, MN: Skandisk, 1985)
O How Shall I Keep My Christmas?
O How Shall I Receive Thee - Version 1(Compare: How Shall I Meet Thee and O Lord, How Shall I Meet You)
O How Shall I Receive Thee - Version 2
O Infant, God's Eternal Son
O Jesu Christ, All Praise To Thee
O Jesu, King of Glory
O Jesu, Star of Bethlehem
O Jesu, Sweet Child – Version 1
O Jesu, Sweet Child – Version 2 (Translation by Elizabeth Poston and Malcolm Williamson, eds., A Book of Christmas Carols (New York: Prentice Hall Press, 1988)
O Jesus Christ, Thy Manger Is
O Jesus So Sweet (Text translated & MIDI sequenced by Bill Egan, copyright)
O Jesus, King Most Wonderful
O Jesus, King Of Glory
O Jesus, Thou Art Standing
O Key of David, Hailed by Those
O Let Us Praise The Christmas Tree
O Light Incarnate!
O Light Of Light, By Love Inclined
O Light Resplendent of the Morn
O Little Babe! In Bethlehem Born
O Little Love (Christmas, Epiphany) - Shirley Erena Murray (opens in a new window at an exterior site)
O Little One Sweet, O Little One Mild (Music Only; Lyrics by Percy Dearmer, 1928, Are Copyright)
O Little Town Of Bethlehem
O Little Town Of Bethlehem (French, "Petite Ville, Bethleem")
O Little Town Of Bethlehem (O Little Bank Americard – Humor)
O Little Town Of Bethlehem (O Little Credit Card – Humor)
O Little Town Of Bethlehem (O Little Melting Particle - Humor)
O Little Town Of Bethlehem (O Little Town of Green Bay– Humor; opens in a new window at RabidFans.com, Copyright 1997 Dale & Pru Palecek)
O Lord Our God, Arise
O Lord, How Shall I Meet You (Compare O How Shall I Receive Thee and How Shall I Meet Thee)
O Lord, Our God, In Adoration (Words: R. Michael Cullinan, Copyright 1996; Used With Permission)
O Lord, We Welcome Thee
O Love, How Deep, How Broad, How High - Version 1

O Love, How Deep, How Broad, How High - Version 2
O Lovely Star That Shone So Bright
O Love Supreme, Exceeding Broad
O Lovely Voices Of The Sky
O Lowly, Sacred Stable
O Master, It Is Good To Be
O Merry Ring The Christmas Bells (Alternate Title: The Cornish Bells)
O Morning Star, How Fair and Bright (German: Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern)
O Most Joyful, O Most Holy, O du froliche by Johannes Daniel Falk (1768-1826) translated by Alan Luff (born 1928) English translation © Stainer & Bell Ltd
O Most Mighty! O Most Holy
O Night Divine
O Night, Peaceful And Blest
O North, With All Thy Vales Of Green
O One With God The Father
O Quickly Come, Dread Judge Of All
O Ring Ye Bells
O Root of Jesse, Thou On Whom
O Round As The World Is The Orange You Give Us! Fred Pratt Green (1903-2000) © 1979 Stainer & Bell Ltd. A Christingle carol.
O Sanctissima Translations and adaptations include:
- Day Of Holiness
- O du frohliche! (German)
- O Most Wonderful
- O Thou Joyful, O Thou Wonderful
- O Thou Joyful Day
- Oh, How Joyfully - Version 1
- O How Joyfully - Version 2
- Oh, How Joyfully, Brian Wren (born 1936) © 1993 Stainer & Bell Ltd
- Virgin, Full Of Grace
O Saving Victim, Opening Wide
O Savior Of Our Fallen Race (Notes Only; Words Copyright by Gilbert E. Doan, Jr., 1930-)
O Saviour Of Our Race
O Saviour, Heaven's Portal Rend
O Saviour, Lord, To Thee We Pray
O Saviour, Rent The Heavens In Twain
O Savior, Whom This Holy Morn
O Sing A Joyous Carol
O Sing A Song Of Bethlehem (Also Known As: O Sing A Hymn Of Bethlehem)
O Sing Of The Savour's Might
O Sing We A Carol
O That I Had An Angel's Tongue
O The Beautiful Old Story
O The Morn, The Merry Merry Morn
O Thou Essential Word
O Thou, On Whom the Nations Wait
O Thou Redeemer Of Our Race
O Thou Who By A Star Didst Guide
O Thou, Who Camedst Down of Old
O Thou Who Hearest Every Heartfelt Prayer
O Thou, Whose Name is “God With Us”
O Uery lyfe of swetnes and hope (Middle English; retyped in Old Blackletter)
O Very God Of Very God, John Mason Neale
O Very God of Very God - An Advent Hymn from The Hymnary, 1872
O Vision Blest Of Heavenly Light (George B. Timms (1910-); Words Are Copyright)
O Watchman, Will The Night Of Sin
O Well! O Well! (The First Nowell)
O What Mean These Songs They're Singing?
O Wisdom, Sovereign Master of Man's Soul
O Wisdom! Spreading Mightily From out the Mouth of God Most High
O Wisdom, That Comest Out of the Mouth of the Most High
O Wisdom, That Proceedest from the Mouth of the Most High, Dom Prosper Gueranger
O Wisdom, That Proceedest From the Mouth of the Most High, H. N. Oxenham
O Wisdom, Which Camest Forth out of the Mouth of the Most High
O Wisdom Which Camest Out of the Mouth of the Most High, W. J. Birkbeck
O Wisdom, Which Camest Out of the Mouth of the Most High, John Henry Newman
O Wisdom, Which Comest Out of the Mouth of the Most High, Anonymous.
O Wisdom, Who Came From the Mouth of the Most High
O Wisdom, Who O'er Earth Below
O Wonderful The Tidings

O Wondrous Mystery, Full of Passing Grace

O Wondrous Type, O Vision Fair
O Word Of God Incarnate
O Word, That Goest Forth On High (Translation: Editors, The Hymnal 1940, #8, Copyright)
O Worthy Lord And Most Of Might
O Worship The Lord In The Beauty Of Holiness
O You Merry, Merry Souls
O, Come Have A Look (Dutch: O, kom er eens kijken)
O, Hear Ye Not The Angel-song

O, Let Your Mingling Voices Rise

O! Come Ye Down To Cana
O'er Bethlehem's Hill, In Time Of Old
O'er Hill And Dell The Christmas
O’er Old Judea’s Hills
O'er The Hill And O'er The Vale
O'er The Mountains (First Line: Swelling o’er the mountain sounds the Christmas bell)

O'er The Distant Mountains Breaking
O'er The Plains
Of A Rose Singe We (see: This Rose is Railed on a Ryse)
Of A Rose, A Lovely Rose
Of All Thi Frendes Sche Is The Flowr
Of mary a mayde withowt lesyng
Of Mary Criste was bore - Thomas Wright
Of M A R I Syng I Wyll A New Song

Of Noble Cities Thou Art Queen

Of The Birth Of Christ
Of The Father Sole Begotten (Latin: Corde Natus Ex Parentis)
Of The Father’s Heart Begotten
Of The Father’s Love Begotten - Version 1
Of The Father’s Love Begotten - Version 2
Of The Father's Love Begotten - Version 3
Of The Purification
Of These Four Letters Sing Will I
Of sayne Steuen goddes knyght (Middle English; retyped in Old Blackletter)
Off The 5 Joyes Of Owr Lady
Oft Have We Passed the Guilty Night
Oh Christmas Is Merry
Oh Realm Of Light
Oh Saviour, Whom This Holy Morn
Oh Wouldst Thou In Thy Glory Come
Oh! Dear Jesus
Oh! Infant Jesus
Oh! Lovely Infant, Dearest Saviour
Oh! Night Among The Thousands
Oh! Sing A Merry Carol
Oh, How Wondrous News
Oh, Must We Not Sing Our Christmas Hymn
Oh, Rejoice Ye Christians Loudly
Oh, Shine, My Redeemer!

Oh, Sing To-day!
Oh, Sleep Now, Holy Baby (Translation John Donald Robb, Copyright 1954)
Oh, What A Merry Land Is England
Oh, Who Are They, So Pure?
Oh, Who Would Be A Shepherd Boy
Old Christmas (First Line: "It's a long way round the year, my dears")
Old Christmas Returned (First Line: "All you that to feasting and mirth are inclined")
Old Tin Star (Words by Murray McLauchlan, Date Unknown)
Old Toy Trains (Words and Music: Roger Miller, 1967)
Old Year Now Away Is Fled, The (Alternate: The Old Year Away Is Fled)
The Old Year Now Hath Passed Away
Omnes Gentes Plaudite
On A Christmas Morning
On Bethlehem's Silent Plain
On Christmas Night – Version 1 (Also Known As On Christmas Night True Christians Sing Or The Sussex Carol)
On Christmas Night – Version 2
On Christmas Night – Version 3
On Christmas Night – Version 4
On Christmas Night - Version 5
On Christmas Night - Version 6
On Christmas Night - Version 7
On Jordan’s Banks, The Baptist's Cry
On Jordan's Banks, The Herald's Cry
On Judah’s Plains As Shepherds Sat
On The Birthday Of The Lord - Version 1 (Bramley & Stainer)
On The Birthday Of The Lord - Version 2 (G. R. Woodward)
On The First Bright Christmas Day
On The Infancy Of Our Saviour (First Line: Hail, Blessed Virgin, Full of Heavenly Grace)
On The Morning Of Christ's Nativity - Version 1
On The Morning Of Christ's Nativity - Version 2
On The Night When Jesus Came (Poland - Gdy Sie Chrystus Rodzi; compare Christ Is Born This Evening)
On This Auspicious, Memorable Morn
On This Night (Translation of Traditional French, 19th Century)
On This Night, Most Holy (Words: R. Michael Cullinan, Copyright 1996; Used With Permission)
On This Day Earth Shall Ring (Personent hodie from Piae Cantiones, 1582; Translation Jane M. Joseph)
On This Day Earth Shall Ring (Version 2 - Translator Unknown)
On This Day Youthful Voices Sing Aloud (Personent hodie from Piae Cantiones, 1582)
On Yesternight I Saw A Sight - Version 1, Bramley & Stainer (Alternate Title: Virgin And Child, The
On Yesternight I Saw A Sight - Version 2, Hutchins (Alternate Title: The Virgin And The Child)
Once Again The Olden Story (Alternate Title: Joyful Is The Morn)
Once Again, O Blessed Time
Once, As I Remember
Once He Came In Blessing
Once In Bethlehem Of Judah
Once In Royal David’s City
Once More The Sweet Melodious Song
Once More We All Together Meet
Once More, O Lord, Thy Sign Shall Be
Once O’er Judea’s Hills By Night
Once O'er The Fields Of Bethlehem
Once In The Winter Cold
One Christmas Morning
One For The Little Bitty Baby (Alternative Title: Children, Go Where I Send Thee)
One God There Is, Of Wisdom, Glory, Might
One God, one Baptisme, and one Fayth (A New Dyall)
One More Sleep Till Christmas (Sung by Kermit in the Muppet Christmas Carol, Copyright 1992)
One Night In Dark December
One Of The Children Of The Year, Fred Pratt Green (1903-2000) © 1992 Stainer & Bell Ltd
One Small Child (Words and Music: David Meese, copyright 1994; Recorded by Rebecca St. James)
One Winter's Night
One Yule-night, As Abed I Lay
Only Son From Heaven, The
Only Son From Heaven, The (Original Lyrics: Gud Faders Son Enbaarne)
Oogie Boogie’s Song (From "The Nightmare Before Christmas", Copyright 1993)
Open Stood The Gates of Heaven
Open Thy Door, Gentle Hosteler
Open Your Sleeping Eyes, Alan Gaunt (born 1935) © Stainer & Bell Ltd
Other Night, The (Version of This Endris Night)
Other Wiseman, The (Written and recorded by Afterglow (Deseret Books, Date Unknown)
Our Day Of Joy Is Here Again
Our God Has Given His Son To The Earth, Fred Kaan (born 1929) © 1968 Stainer & Bell Ltd
Our Lady Sat Within Her Bower
Our Lady Took The Road
Our Message
Our Souls Shall Magnify The Lord
Out Of The East (Harry Noble, copyright 1940)
Out Of Your Sleep Arise and Wake (Alternate Title: Arise and Wake)
Out Of The Blossom Sprang A Thorn
Out Of The Orient, Crystal Skies
Out From The Rising Of The Sun
Outlanders, Whence Come Ye Last?
Outside, How Hard It Bloweth
Over Hills And Over Plains
Over The River And Through The Woods - Grandfather & Thanksgiving Day - The Original Version with the title: A Boy's Thanksgiving Day
Over The River And Through The Woods - Grandmother & Christmas Day
Over The River And Through The Woods (Grandma’s Version – Humor)
Over The River And Through The Woods (Over The River Comes Santa Claus – Humor)
Over the River (Over Three Rivers, For Pittsburgh Fans– Humor; opens in a new window at RabidFans.com, Copyright 1998 Dale & Pru Palecek)
Over The River (To Grandmother's House, For Green Bay Fans– Humor; opens in a new window at RabidFans.com, Copyright 1997 Dale & Pru Palecek)
Over the River and Through the Woods (Over the River Comes Santa Claus, For Chicago Fans– Humor; opens in a new window at RabidFans.com, Copyright 1998 Dale & Pru Palecek)
Over the River and Through the Woods (Over the Rockies, For Denver Fans– Humor; opens in a new window at RabidFans.com, Copyright 1998 Dale & Pru Palecek)
Over Trackless Regions
Over Yonder's A Park (A Corpus Christi Carol)
The Ox He Openeth Wide The Doore

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