Posted on 12/23/2009 9:25:46 AM PST by Sopater
What is your favorite Christmas Hymn?
Little Drummer Boy (original version)
O Come Emmanuel
12 Days of Christmas - Straight No Chaser (awesome album btw)
Lulajze Jesuniu (Polish)
O Holy Night
Silent Night
Schlaf Kindlein (you almost never hear it)
“Oh Holy Night”
See post 43
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Little Drummer Boy (the original one).Fifty plus years later it can still bring a tear to my eye.
OK...fair enough.We need a separate thread for out Jewish Freepers.
Well,for starters,because since leaving the Beatles McCartney's been nothing but a schlock artist.
Ditto.
“O Come, O come Emmanuel” - Manheim Steamroller
“O Holy Night” - Josh Groban
I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day, written by Henry W. Longfellow is one of my favorites. It is best sung to the tune “Waltham” by John B. Calkin (1872). To truly appreciate the song’s powerful message, one should sing all of the verses.
I HEARD THE BELLS ON CHRISTMAS DAY
I heard the bells on Christmas day
Their old familiar carols play,
And wild and sweet the words repeat
Of peace on earth, good will to men.
And thought how, as the day had come,
The belfries of all Christendom
Had rolled along th’unbroken song
Of peace on earth, good will to men.
Till ringing, singing on its way
The world revolved from night to day,
A voice, a chime, a chant sublime
Of peace on earth, good will to men.
Then from each black, accursed mouth
The cannon thundered in the South,
And with the sound the carols drowned
Of peace on earth, good will to men.
It was as if an earthquake rent
The hearth-stones of a continent,
And made forlorn, the households born
Of peace on earth, good will to men.
And in despair I bowed my head
“There is no peace on earth,” I said,
“For hate is strong and mocks the song
Of peace on earth, good will to men.”
Then pealed the bells more loud and deep:
“God is not dead, nor doth He sleep;
The wrong shall fail, the right prevail
With peace on earth, good will to men.”
Gloucester Cathedral Choir - “In the Bleak Midwinter”-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRobryliBLQ
It’ll make your eyes water for sure.
Thank you for that link. It has always been my favorite Christmas Hymn and is not sung as much as it was when I was growing up.
Merry Christmas!
I like the original version:
Minuit, chrétiens, c’est l’heure solennelle
Où l’Homme-Dieu descendit jusqu’à nous,
Pour effacer la tache originelle,
Et de son Père arrêter le courroux.
Le monde entier tressaille d’espérance,
À cette nuit qui lui donne un Sauveur.
Peuple, à genoux, attends ta délivrance
Noël! Noël! Voici le Rédempteur!
Noël! Noël! Voici le Rédempteur!
Translation:
Christians, it’s midnight; it is the solemn hour
When God in the form of a man came down to us
To wipe out original sin
And to stop his father’ anger.
The entire world thrills with hope
On this night which gives us a savior.
People, kneel down, await your deliverance.
It’s Christmas! It’s Christmas! Here is the Redeemer!
It’s Christmas! It’s Christmas! Here is the Redeemer!
—Placide Cappeau & Adolphe-Charles Adam, 1847
“Don’t Shoot Me, Santa” by The Killers.
Uh, that’s a joke, son.
Really, it’s “Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence.”
Words that I wish the once-a-year attendees would heed at Midnight Mass...
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