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Henry Ramsden Bramley and John Stainer, Christmas Carols New and Old
(London: Novello, Ewer & Co.)

Songs are listed in the same order as they appear in the Table of Contents.

Series One And Series Two as printed in the 1871 Library Edition;
Less elaborate "standard" editions were also produced, which featured the words and music, but without the drawings featured on some pages of the Library Edition, and with a less expansive preface; see Introduction To A Combined Volume.

Series Three was published circa 1878.

The First Series

Number Name
1 God rest you, merry Gentlemen
2 The Manger Throne
3 A Virgin unspotted
4 Come, ye lofty
5 Come, tune your heart
6 The first Nowell
7 Jesu, hail!
8 Good Christian men, rejoice
9 Sleep, holy Babe
10 Good King Wenceslas
11 When I view the Mother holding
12 The seven joys of Mary
13 On the Birthday of the Lord
14 What Child is this?
15 Glorious, beauteous, golden-bright
16 Waken! Christian children
17 A Child this day is born
18 Carol for Christmas Eve (Listen, Lordings, Unto Me)
19 When Christ was born of Mary free
20 'Twas in the Winter cold

 

The Second Series

 

Number Name
21 A Carol for Christmas Eve (The Lord At First Had Adam Made)
22 Jesus in the Manger (Why, Most Highest, Art Thou Lying)
23 The Holly and the Ivy
24 The Wait's Song (The Moon Shines Bright)
25 The Virgin and Child (On Yester Night I Saw A Sight)
26 The Incarnation (The Great God of Heaven Is Come Down To Earth)
27 Christmas Day (Wake All Music's Magic Pow'rs)
28 The Cherry Tree Carol (Joseph Was An Old Man and As Joseph Was A Walking)
29 God's dear Son
30 Hymn for Christmas Day (See Amid The Winter's Snow)
31 The Babe of Bethlehem (The Babe In Bethlem's Manger Laid)
32 In Bethlehem, that noble place
33 A Cradle-Song of the Blessed Virgin (The Virgin Stills The Crying)
34 Christmas Song (Once Again O Blessed Time)
35 Jacob's Ladder (As Jacob With Travel Was Weary One Day)
36 The Story of the Shepherd (It Was The Very Noon Of Night)
37 The Wassail Song (Here We Come A Wassailing)
38 In Terra Pax (Infant of Days, Yet Lord of Life)
39 Dives and Lazarus (As It Fell Out Upon A Day)
40 From far away
41 Carol for Christmas Day (All This Night Bright Angels Sing)
42 The Child Jesus in the Garden (Cold Was The Day When In A Garden Bare)

 

The Third Series

 

Number Name
43 What Soul-Inspiring Music
44 In the Country Nigh to Bethlehem
45 We Three Kings Of Orient Are
46 Emmanuel, God With Us (Joy Fills Our Innermost Heart Today)
47 New Prince, New Pomp (Behold A Simple, Tender Babe)
48 A Babe Is Born (A Babe Is Born, All Of A Maid)
49 Come Let Us All Sweet Carols Sing
50 Let Music Break On This Blest Morn
51 Carol For New Year's Eve (The Old Year Now Away Is Fled)
52 The Angel Gabriel (The Angel Gabriel From God)
53 The Shepherds Amazed (The Shepherds Amazed The Angels Beheld)
54 Noel! Noel! [New Christmas Carol] ('Tis The Day, The Blessed Day)
55 I Sing The Birth Was Born Tonight
56 Christmas Night (On Christmas Night True Christians Sing)
57 The Christmas Celebration (Now To God On High Be Glory)
58 Arise, And Hail The Sacred Day
59 The Holy Well (As It Fell Out One May Morning)
60 The Angel And The Shepherds (Now Rise Up, Ye Shepherds)
61 The Coventry Carol (Lullay, Thou Little Tiny Child)
62 The Morning Star (See! The Morning Star Is Dwelling)
63 The Shepherds Went Their Hasty Way
64 I Saw Three Ships [The Sunny Bank]
65 Mountains, Bow Your Heads Majestic
66 Luther's Carol (From Highest Heaven I Come To Tell)
67 The Boy's Dream (Last Night As I Was Laid And Sleep)
68 Legends Of The Infancy (Come Forth, Ye Wond'ring Children All)
69 The Black Decree (Let Christians All With One Accord Rejoice)
70 For Christmas Day  (Immortal Babe, Who This Dear Day)

 

 

Front Page of the 1871 Edition (CCEL)

 

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Table of Contents of the 1871 Edition (CCEL)

 

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Index of Authors and Composers of the 1871 Edition (CCEL)

 

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