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Top 10 Christmas Carols (What is your favorite Christmas Carol?)
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Posted on 12/18/2010 10:48:09 AM PST by 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
 
Embedded video at the site  http://marysaggies.blogspot.com/2010/12/top-10-christmas-carols.html


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?
 
 
Embedded video at the site  http://marysaggies.blogspot.com/2010/12/top-10-christmas-carols.html



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,
 
 
Embedded video at the site  http://marysaggies.blogspot.com/2010/12/top-10-christmas-carols.html



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.
 
 
Embedded video at the site  http://marysaggies.blogspot.com/2010/12/top-10-christmas-carols.html



6 - Silent Night
Favorite line(s):
Shepherds quake at the sight
Glories stream from heaven afar
 
 
Embedded video at the site  http://marysaggies.blogspot.com/2010/12/top-10-christmas-carols.html



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
 
 
Embedded video at the site  http://marysaggies.blogspot.com/2010/12/top-10-christmas-carols.html



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
 
 
Embedded video at the site  http://marysaggies.blogspot.com/2010/12/top-10-christmas-carols.html



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,
 
 
Embedded video at the site  http://marysaggies.blogspot.com/2010/12/top-10-christmas-carols.html



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.
 
 
Embedded video at the site  http://marysaggies.blogspot.com/2010/12/top-10-christmas-carols.html



1 - O Holy Night
Favorite line(s):
Fall on your knees! Oh, hear the angel voices!
 
 
Embedded video at the site  http://marysaggies.blogspot.com/2010/12/top-10-christmas-carols.html



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TOPICS: Catholic; Prayer; Worship
KEYWORDS: advent; catholic; christmas; music
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To: Salvation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rm9K7UK47FQ&playnext=1&list=PLB0679F5D4CA9741D&index=35


41 posted on 12/18/2010 11:30:27 AM PST by Venturer
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To: Salvation

Always hard to get a good literal Polish-English translation but here the best one I could find:

Miserable, quiet, stable on the earth,
Full heavenly glory.
Here’s lying on the hay, asleep
The small rays of Jesus.

Above him stood the angels in flight
I bent knees
With golden hair, with white wings,
Under the rainbow-painted.

Big surprise: all of creation
Worldwide salvation;
Wisdom of Wisdom, Light of Light,
God - man incarnate here!

And here, poor people
Glad to see the Lord,
Full of inspiration, full of wonder
They fell to their knees.

Here is Mary, a pure lily,
When the old man trembling
They stand before us, before shepherds
With such smiling.


42 posted on 12/18/2010 11:30:46 AM PST by dfwgator (Welcome to the Gator Nation Will Muschamp)
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To: Salvation

Coventry Carol and O Come All Ye Faithful.


43 posted on 12/18/2010 11:39:39 AM PST by OpusatFR
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To: dfwgator

Beautiful even with the translation.....would love to hear it in Polish. I think I enjoyed Poland the most (other than Auschwitz) when I took a pilgrimage to the Eastern Europe countries. Oh, my, too much to even mention.


44 posted on 12/18/2010 11:42:16 AM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: OpusatFR

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIvH5GdY4JE

Coventry Carol - Westminster Cathedral Choir


45 posted on 12/18/2010 11:42:38 AM PST by OpusatFR
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To: Salvation
Probably "Oh Come All Ye Faithful" for one particular reason. The Kansas City Repertory Theater does "A Christmas Carol" every year and there is a part in the second act where several of the cast begin to sing "Oh Come All Ye Faithful". And as they are doing so, the rest of the cast - and its' pretty big - come down the aisles bearing candles singing along with them. They all wind up on stage for the third chorus and it is, to me, the highlight of the play. There's a part of it about 2 minutes into this clip. Link

But really I like all the old carols - Fum, Fum, Fum; Bring the Torch; We Three Kings; God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen; Here We Come A Caroling; Coventry Carol; and all the rest.

46 posted on 12/18/2010 11:46:05 AM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: Salvation

Great list. I’m with you on “O Holy Night.”


47 posted on 12/18/2010 11:46:35 AM PST by Doomonyou (Let them eat Lead.)
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To: xzins

**I can’t recall ever having sung it.**

Me either, but I just found it in the new missalette.

First verse
Once in roal David’s city
Stood a lowly cattle shed.
Where a mother and her baby
In a manger for his bed.
Mary was that mother mild
Jesus Christ her little child


48 posted on 12/18/2010 11:49:35 AM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Salvation

I grew up hearing “Guardian Angels Surround my bed” by Mario Lanza.

I only heard it with the Christmas music. It sticks with me more than any other.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U025d5CtLWU&feature=related


49 posted on 12/18/2010 11:49:54 AM PST by IrishCatholic (No local Communist or Socialist Party Chapter? Join the Democrats, it's the same thing!)
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To: xzins

It’s an old one
Cecil Frances Alelxander 1818-1895
Henry Gauntlett, 1805-1876


50 posted on 12/18/2010 11:52:38 AM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: IrishCatholic

Mario Lanza — haven’t heard that voice in a long time!


51 posted on 12/18/2010 11:53:47 AM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Salvation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NC-b4mYFT1A

My favorite for the last few years.


52 posted on 12/18/2010 11:54:23 AM PST by Grunthor (Silence is golden, Duct Tape is silver.)
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To: Salvation

We Three Kings is my #1.

Vocal or instrumental. It always sounds so regal and ancient.


53 posted on 12/18/2010 11:57:02 AM PST by VanDeKoik (1 million in stimulus dollars paid for this tagline!)
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To: Salvation

I inherited the family albums. But, I haven’t got the skills to transfer them to digital. My wife bought an advanced digital turntable convinced that she could do it, rather than the simple idiot proof one I picked. She believed she had the ability with all the software.

Well, it sits under its dust cover and the albums sit in storage.

It all works out in the end, though. The next time I do something and she says “What were you thinking?”, I’ve got the digital turntable card to play :-)


54 posted on 12/18/2010 11:58:25 AM PST by IrishCatholic (No local Communist or Socialist Party Chapter? Join the Democrats, it's the same thing!)
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To: Grunthor

It is beautiful!


55 posted on 12/18/2010 11:58:45 AM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Salvation

One of my favorite Christmas song sites is www.falalalala.com

Lots of great Americana music from years past, much of it available for download.


56 posted on 12/18/2010 12:01:43 PM PST by MarineBrat (Better dead than red!)
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To: Salvation

Favorite Christmas carol — Hark! The Herald Angels Sing

Favorite Christmas song — White Christmas


57 posted on 12/18/2010 12:03:14 PM PST by Mr. Mojo
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To: Salvation
My favorite is Silent Night both in English and the original German.

I love Oh Come All Ye Faithful, but every time I hear it, I think of the scene from the movie The Great Escape where the POW's are hammering out the air duct in time to the song. It's a wonderful carol, but I want to bust out laughing every time I hear it.

58 posted on 12/18/2010 12:04:07 PM PST by Stonewall Jackson (Democrats: "You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.")
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To: MarineBrat

Thanks, MB, but my computer doesn’t have the available space for that. Great site, though.


59 posted on 12/18/2010 12:04:19 PM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: steve8714
Ditto.

And a vote for Silent Night (in the original German).

60 posted on 12/18/2010 12:17:27 PM PST by reg45
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