Top 10 Christmas Carols (What is your favorite Christmas Carol?)

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[Salvation]

Top 10 Christmas Carols

Let the debate begin! Below is my subjective list of favorites, with videos of good to great renditions of each. I have also included my favorite line(s) of each song:

Top 10 Christmas Carols

10 - O Little Town of Bethlehem

Favorite line(s):

Yet in thy dark streets shineth
The everlasting Light
The hopes and fears of all the years
Are met in thee tonight

 

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9 - Angels We Have Heard on High

Favorite line(s):
Shepherds, why this jubilee?
Why your joyous strains prolong?
What the gladsome tidings be
Which inspire your heavenly song?

 

 

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8 - Joy To The World

Favorite line(s):
No more let sins and sorrows grow,
nor thorns infest the ground;
He comes to make His blessing flow
far as the curse is found,

 

 

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7 - What Child is This?

Favorite line(s):
This, this is Christ the King,
Whom shepherds guard and Angels sing;
Haste, haste, to bring Him laud,
The Babe, the Son of Mary.

 

 

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6 - Silent Night

Favorite line(s):
Shepherds quake at the sight
Glories stream from heaven afar

 

 

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5 - O Come O Come Emmanuel

Favorite line(s):
O come, O come, Emmanuel
And ransom captive Israel
That mourns in lonely exile here
Until the Son of God appear

 

 

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4 - Hark! The Herald Angels Sing

Favorite line(s):
Late in time behold Him come
Offspring of a Virgin's womb
Veiled in flesh the Godhead see
Hail the incarnate Deity

 

 

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3 - O Come All Ye Faithful

Favorite line(s):
O come ye, O come ye to Bethlehem.
Come and behold Him,
Born the King of Angels;
O come, let us adore Him,

 

 

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2 - Once In Royal David's City

Favorite line(s):
For He is our childhood's pattern;
Day by day, like us, He grew;
He was little, weak, and helpless,
Tears and smiles, like us He knew;
And He cares when we are sad,
And he shares when we are glad.

 

 

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1 - O Holy Night

Favorite line(s):
Fall on your knees! Oh, hear the angel voices!

 

 

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Just Missed the Cut:

• Away In A Manger
• Mary, Did You Know?
• The First Noel
• Go Tell It On The Mountain
• It Came Upon a Midnight Clear
• Angels We Have Heard on High
• God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
• Do You Hear What I Hear?
• I Saw Three Ships
• Breath of Heaven
• We Three Kings

[Salvation]

I'm with "O Holy Night!" I cry every time I hear it sung.

I would also add Ave Maria, because without the Incarnation we would have no Baby Jesus at Christmas time.

Do go to the site to listen to the videos of these songs being sung!

[steve8714]

O come all ye Faithful, but in the Latin and sung by Bocelli, thanks.

[edcoil]

This one. David Bowie and Bing Crosby.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKS0GngztOo

[Salvation]

This is the blogger’s list — would not be my list.

Musical ping!

[ElayneJ]

Glad to see OH COME OH COME EMANNUEL on your list. MARY DID YOU KNOW didn’t make it? Such a beautiful, beautiful song!

[Cboldt]

My sentiment goes for “O Holy Night” too.

[xzins]

“Silent Night” and

“O Come, O Come Emmanuel”

[Salvation]

Adeste Fedelis! Amen!

[Salvation]

When my children were younger they loved “The Little Drummer Boy”, but I think their tastes have changed — don’t know their favorites right now.

[JPG]

Agreed. ‘O Holy Night’ sung by a good female singer is hard to beat.

[edcoil]

It asked for yours, not theirs.

[bicyclerepair]

Anything Karen Carpenter sang. Especially Ave Maria.

That woman had an angel’s voice. She’s seranading God right now.

[Salvation]

So many people do not know that the "O Antiphons" are what make up the verses of "O Come, O Come Emannuel"

Check it out on these links:

Praising the Names of Jesus: The Antiphons of Advent
The O Antiphons
Ego Cras (Anagram of the Messianic Titles of Christ in the "O" Antiphons)
Praying with the "O" Antiphons
The 'O' Antiphons -- Prayer Activity for Families
O Antiphons -- Scriptural Detail of these Advent prayers
The Great Advent Antiphons
What are the “O Antiphons”?

[Judith Anne]

“Lo, how a rose e’er blooming” is just lovely...

[Salvation]

**It asked for yours, not theirs.**

But I agree with the number one choice “O Holy Night.”

[Salvation]

What is YOUR favorite Christmas Carol?

[Straight Vermonter]

I think the one that is the most fun to sing is “Angels We Have Heard On High”.

[knittnmom]

What a coincidence! I love O Holy Night, and tear up whenever I sing it! :-)

[redangus]

Religious “What Child is this” and acoustic versions of “Silent Night”. Secular “Silver Bells”, Bingo’s “White Christmas” and Karen Carpenter’s “I’ll Be Home for Christmas” made even more poignant because we now know how alone and depressed she felt when she sang it.

[reagandemocrat]

“Silent Night”, then “Adeste Fidelis”