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How to stump your friends: What popular Christmas song mentions Satan?
examiner.com ^ | Dec. 21, 2010 | RĂ©ne Girard

Posted on 12/24/2010 11:04:42 AM PST by jackspyder

At this time of year, Christmas songs seem to stir our hearts and minds with thoughts of Christmas cheer, jingle bells, sleigh rides, snowflakes, Santa, Rudolph, and of course the birth of Jesus in a manger long ago. And although many people bemoan the evils of over-indulgence, unbridled commericalism, as well as the absence and rejection of Christ during the Christmas season, few make the direct connection to the deceiver of the world - Satan himself. But did you know that one very popular Christmas song actually mentions Satan by name?

This odd little piece of trivia is one I like to present at this time of year. Maybe you can do the same for your friends and family - especially if you get a kick out of watching their faces contort as their holiday brains scramble for the only right answer.

Although some people will give up quickly, others will genuinely try to figure it out. Here are some hints if they decide to ask.

Hint #1 It is a traditional Christmas carol, not an obscure song you have never heard.

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TOPICS: Music/Entertainment; Religion
KEYWORDS: christmas; christmassongs; examiner; satan; song
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To: jackspyder
Here's another stumper. Where's this song from? Whoever get's it first, wins extra points.
21 posted on 12/24/2010 11:46:29 AM PST by Krankor (When I was younger, so much younger than today, I never needed anybody's help in any way.)
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To: Krankor

Easy! Santa Claus Conquers the Martians!


22 posted on 12/24/2010 11:50:17 AM PST by ironwill (III - Molon Labe)
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To: ironwill

Five extra points for you!


23 posted on 12/24/2010 11:52:34 AM PST by Krankor (When I was younger, so much younger than today, I never needed anybody's help in any way.)
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To: The_Reader_David
For Jesus Christ our Saviour was born on Christmas day.

Fixed.

24 posted on 12/24/2010 11:58:09 AM PST by mc5cents (Government doesn't solve problems, it subsidizes them. -- Ronald Reagan)
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To: jackspyder

Speaking of Christmas carols,here’s a possible brain teaser: What famous Christmas carol was composed by a Jewish convert to Christianity?


25 posted on 12/24/2010 11:58:13 AM PST by luvbach1 (Stop Barry now. He can't help himself.)
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To: jackspyder

Quite a few if your dyslexic... and sent a holiday gift wish letter to Satan at the North Ploe. :)


26 posted on 12/24/2010 12:00:01 PM PST by Keith in Iowa (FR Class of 1998 | TV News is an oxymoron. | MSNBC = Moonbats Spouting Nothing But Crap.)
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To: jackspyder

Hey, I just heard this song earlier today. What are the odds of that ? : )


27 posted on 12/24/2010 12:12:33 PM PST by Bud Krieger (Another President, another idiot....)
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To: luvbach1
Speaking of Christmas carols,here’s a possible brain teaser: What famous Christmas carol was composed by a Jewish convert to Christianity?

Easy enough: Felix Mendelssohn composed the tune for "Hark the Herald Angels Sing."

28 posted on 12/24/2010 12:13:15 PM PST by RansomOttawa (tm)
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To: jackspyder

God rest ye merry, gentlemen; let nothing you dismay.
Remember Christ our Savior was born on Christmas Day.
To save us all from satan’s power when we were gone astray.
Oooohh, tidings of comfort and joy!


29 posted on 12/24/2010 12:13:27 PM PST by Tucker39
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To: MHGinTN

Here comes satan claus, here comes satan claus, right down satan claus lane......


30 posted on 12/24/2010 12:17:39 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (There's only one cure for Obamarrhea......)
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To: RansomOttawa

The esoteric knowledge of freepers always amazes me!


31 posted on 12/24/2010 12:19:07 PM PST by MHGinTN (Some, believing they can't be deceived, it's nigh impossible to convince them when they're deceived.)
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To: luvbach1

You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch was penned by a Jewish man, brought up as a Lutheran.


32 posted on 12/24/2010 12:20:49 PM PST by Shimmer1 (Merry Christmas!)
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To: Hot Tabasco
Here comes Santa's claws, here comes Santa's claws, right down Simon's tree ...
33 posted on 12/24/2010 12:22:44 PM PST by MHGinTN (Some, believing they can't be deceived, it's nigh impossible to convince them when they're deceived.)
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To: jackspyder

Another stumper. What Christmas son did Bob Hope sing and in what movie?


34 posted on 12/24/2010 12:26:00 PM PST by Krankor (When I was younger, so much younger than today, I never needed anybody's help in any way.)
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To: Shimmer1
You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch was penned by a Jewish man, brought up as a Lutheran.

That's interesting but not the Christmas carol I had in mind. :o)

35 posted on 12/24/2010 12:41:39 PM PST by luvbach1 (Stop Barry now. He can't help himself.)
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To: jackspyder

I knew it right off.

You need to warn people about all the annoying pop ups on that site.


36 posted on 12/24/2010 12:43:54 PM PST by bgill (K Parliament- how could a young man born in Kenya who is not even a native American become the POTUS)
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To: jackspyder

grymg


37 posted on 12/24/2010 1:13:01 PM PST by Recovering_Democrat
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To: jackspyder

Also: “This Little Babe.”

This little babe
So few days old
Has come to rifle Satan’s fold
All Hell doth at
His presence quake
Though he himself for cold do shake.
But in this deep unwanted wise
The gates of Hell he will surprise.


38 posted on 12/24/2010 1:40:09 PM PST by ModelBreaker
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To: jackspyder

Tidings of Comfort and Joy. “To save us all from Satan’s power when we had gone astray.”


39 posted on 12/24/2010 1:43:11 PM PST by Drennan Whyte
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To: jackspyder
That's the easy answer.

Here's the hard answer:

"Gabriel's message does away
Satan's curse and Satan's sway,
out of darkness brings our Day:

Refrain:
So, behold,
all the gates of heaven unfold.

He that comes despised shall reign;
he that cannot die, be slain;
death by death its death shall gain:

Weakness shall the strong confound;
by the hands, in grave clothes wound,
Adam's chains shall be unbound.

By the sword that was his own,
by that sword, and that alone,
shall Goliath be o'erthrown:

Art by art shall be assailed;
to the cross shall Life be nailed;
from the grave shall hope be hailed:"

Gabriel's Message - Neal's translation

in the original Latin, in a chant/organum setting

Piae Cantiones was translated largely by John Mason Neal, the English hymn composer, from a Finnish book of hymns and school songs - written in Latin and Finnish. Although the book is dated 1582, it was the work of an antiquary (they had them then too) and the words and music are essentially medieval.

The well known carols out of it include "Christ was born on Christmas Day" (Resonet in laudibus), "Good Christian men, rejoice" (In dulci jubilo), "Good King Wenceslas" (new words to a spring carol), "Let the Boys' Cheerful Noise" (Personent hodie), "Of the Father's Love Begotten", "Unto Us a Boy is Born", and "Gaudete - Christus est Natus" (covered by Steeleye Span, of all things).

And before you say "nobody knows this one," it's in the Episcopal hymnal. No. 270. (the Episcopalians may be a bunch of heretics, but their music is absolutely first class).

40 posted on 12/24/2010 1:43:43 PM PST by AnAmericanMother (Ministrix of ye Chasse, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))
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