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Offline ednbarby

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What is your favorite Christmas song?
« on: December 07, 2006, 04:48:34 pm »
Have to go with "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas."  I just love the sound of it, and the line "Through the years, we all will be together - if the fates allow."
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Re: What is your favorite Christmas song?
« Reply #1 on: December 07, 2006, 05:12:47 pm »
Edna, that was my 2nd choice. First one was Nat King Cole singing THE CHRISTMAS SONG.  Though I've heard the lyrics so many times, CHesnuts roasting on an open fire..., I might be getting sick of it.   I've never set outside and roasted chestnuts. Gotta try it one of these days.   :)

I find the piece that Bach wrote, "Jesu,  Joy of Man's Desires' to be particularly moving, especially if heard in a great Cathedral. It's usually on X-mas albums, don't know if Bach wrote it for Christmas.

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Re: What is your favorite Christmas song?
« Reply #2 on: December 07, 2006, 05:13:08 pm »
I love all of those songs, but my favorite is "O Holy Night". That song is just so beautiful.  :D

Edit: Another favorite song of mine is "Carol of the Bells" but I don't think I saw it on the list.

Hark! how the bells
Sweet silver bells
All seem to say,
"Throw cares away."
Christmas is here
Bringing good cheer
To young and old
Meek and the bold

Ding, dong, ding, dong
That is their song
With joyful ring
All caroling
One seems to hear
Words of good cheer
From ev'rywhere
Filling the air

O how happy are their tones
Gaily they ring
While people sing
Songs of good cheer
Christmas is here
Merry, merry, merry, merry Christmas
Merry, merry, merry, merry Christmas

On, on they send
On without end
Their joyful tone
To ev'ry home

Edit: I made a typing boo boo.  :(
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Re: What is your favorite Christmas song?
« Reply #3 on: December 07, 2006, 05:25:10 pm »
I love all of those songs, but my favorite is "O Holy Night". That song is just so beautiful.  :D

Edit: Another favorite song of mine is "Carol of the Bells" but I don't think I saw it on the list.

Hark! how the bells
Sweet silver bells
All seem to say,
"Throw oars away."
Christmas is here
Bringing good cheer
To young and old
Meek and the bold

Ding, dong, ding, dong
That is their song
With joyful ring
All caroling
One seems to hear
Words of good cheer
From ev'rywhere
Filling the air

O how happy are their tones
Gaily they ring
While people sing
Songs of good cheer
Christmas is here
Merry, merry, merry, merry Christmas
Merry, merry, merry, merry Christmas

On, on they send
On without end
Their joyful tone
To ev'ry home


This is the one I meant by "Christmas Eve (Ring Ye Bells)."  Oopsies.  Lemme fix that...  I called it Christmas Eve because that's what it's called on Trans-Siberian Orchestra's CD "Christmas Eve and Other Stories" - GREAT Christmas record, by the way, especially if you're into rock like I am...  There's an all instrumental version of "O Holy Night" on that one that is so beautiful it literally brings tears to my eyes.
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Re: What is your favorite Christmas song?
« Reply #4 on: December 07, 2006, 05:41:28 pm »
Hope ya don't mind - Ah was able to cheat & change ma vote. I DO like Feliz Navidad, but ma undisputed christmas favourite song is "Minuit chrétien". Didn't recognize it among those english titles, until I started readin the posts - and there it was - Oh Holy Night. The song was actually written over a hundred years ago by a french priest. Definitively defines the meanin a Christmas, for me. But please, give me the french, original version:

"Minuit chrétien c’est l’heure solennelle
Où l’homme Dieu descendit jusqu’à nous,
Pour effacer la tâche originelle,
Et de Son Père arrêter le courroux.
Le monde entier tressaille d’espérance,
A cette nuit qui lui donne un Sauveur.
Peuple à genoux, attends Ta délivrance,
Nöel, Nöel, voici le Rédempteur,
Nöel, Nöel, voici le Rédempteur."
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Re: What is your favorite Christmas song?
« Reply #5 on: December 07, 2006, 05:48:41 pm »
O Holy Night is right up there for me, too.  I think it's just about the most beautiful melody ever written.  But being decidedly unholy myself, it's hard to call it my very favorite.  I also really love the melancholy sound to God Rest Ye Merry, Gentleman.  But pour moi, Have Yourself... just has it all - a hint of melancholia but mostly a lot of warmth and reverence for the "faithful friends who are dear to us" - to me, our true families - who travel near to us once more.  And that line I cited that I just love, love, love.

And this:

Hang a shining star upon the highest bough, and have yourself a merry little Christmas now.
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Re: What is your favorite Christmas song?
« Reply #6 on: December 07, 2006, 06:32:47 pm »
I voted for "other" since my favourite will be one of my own country's traditional carols.

But of the English ones listed, I'm especially partial to "God rest ye merry, Gentlemen".

Plus, "Jarhead" proved to me just what an eminent song that "Grandma got run over by a Reindeer" tune is. In fact, I thought the thing had been created especially for "Jarhead". Had no idea there really *was* a song like that at all!

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Re: What is your favorite Christmas song?
« Reply #7 on: December 08, 2006, 12:27:06 am »
This is the one I meant by "Christmas Eve (Ring Ye Bells)."  Oopsies.  Lemme fix that...  I called it Christmas Eve because that's what it's called on Trans-Siberian Orchestra's CD "Christmas Eve and Other Stories" - GREAT Christmas record, by the way, especially if you're into rock like I am...  There's an all instrumental version of "O Holy Night" on that one that is so beautiful it literally brings tears to my eyes.


I'm sure that song probably has several names Barb. I've always known it as Carol of the Bells. :D
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Re: What is your favorite Christmas song?
« Reply #8 on: December 08, 2006, 12:37:42 am »
My favorite is "Do You Hear What I Hear?" -- especially this verse:

Said the king to the people everywhere,
"Listen to what I say! Listen to what I say!
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Re: What is your favorite Christmas song?
« Reply #9 on: December 08, 2006, 01:21:03 am »
Carol of the Bells is my favorite.  Thanks so much for the lyrics.  I never knew them.

I also love another song, it's called O come, o come Emmanuel' which is bizarre since I've been sick to death of anything that smacks of the Middle East for years now:

O come, O come, Emmanuel
And ransom captive Israel
That mourns in lonely exile here
Until the Son of God appear
Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel
Shall come to thee, O Israel.

O come, Thou Rod of Jesse, free
Thine own from Satan's tyranny
From depths of Hell Thy people save
And give them victory o'er the grave
Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel
Shall come to thee, O Israel.

O come, Thou Day-Spring, come and cheer
Our spirits by Thine advent here
Disperse the gloomy clouds of night
And death's dark shadows put to flight.
Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel
Shall come to thee, O Israel.

O come, Thou Key of David, come,
And open wide our heavenly home;
Make safe the way that leads on high,
And close the path to misery.
Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel
Shall come to thee, O Israel.

O come, O come, Thou Lord of might,
Who to Thy tribes, on Sinai's height,
In ancient times did'st give the Law,
In cloud, and majesty and awe.
Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel
Shall come to thee, O Israel.


and, of all things, Hard Candy Christmas by Dolly Parton:

Hey, maybe Ill dye my hair
Maybe Ill move somewhere
Maybe Ill get a car
Maybe Ill drive so far
Theyll all lose track
Me, Ill bounce right back
Maybe Ill sleep real late
Maybe Ill lose some weight
Maybe Ill clear my junk
Maybe Ill just get drunk on apple wine
Me, Ill be just

Fine and dandy
Lord its like a hard candy christmas
Im barely getting through tomorrow
But still I wont let
Sorrow bring me way down

Ill be fine and dandy
Lord its like a hard candy christmas
Im barely getting through tomorrow
But still I wont let
Sorrow get me way down

Hey, maybe Ill learn to sew
Maybe Ill just lie low
Maybe Ill hit the bars
Maybe Ill count the stars until dawn
Me, I will go on

Maybe Ill settle down
Maybe Ill just leave town
Maybe Ill have some fun
Maybe Ill meet someone
And make him mine
Me, Ill be just

Fine and dandy
Lord its like a hard candy christmas
Im barely getting throung tomorrow
But still I wont let
Sorrow bring me way down

Ill be fine and dandy
Lord its like a hard candy christmas
Im barely getting through tomorrow
But still I wont let
Sorrow bring me way down

Ill be fine and dandy
Lord its like a hard candy christmas
Im barely getting through tomorrow
But still I wont let
Sorrow bring me way down

cause Ill be fine
(Ill be fine)
Oh, Ill be fine
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