Favorite secular (cynical) Christmas Song:
The Santa Song From invader zim
Favorite sacred Christmas Song:
LO, HOW A ROSE EER BLOOMING
Words: 15th Century carol (Es ist ein Ros entsprungen); verses 1-2 translated from German to English by Theodore Baker, 1894. Verses 3-4, Friedrich Layritz, translated by Harriet Reynolds Krauth, 1875. Verse 5, translated or written by John C. Mattes, 1914.
Music: Es Ist Ein Ros, Alte Catholische Geistliche Kirchengesäng (Köln, Germany: 1599); harmony by Michael Praetorius, 1609 (MIDI, score).
This hymn was sung in the Academy Award winning movie Love Story (1971).
Lo, how a Rose eer blooming from tender stem hath sprung!
Of Jesses lineage coming, as men of old have sung.
It came, a floweret bright, amid the cold of winter,
When half spent was the night.
Isaiah twas foretold it, the Rose I have in mind;
With Mary we behold it, the virgin mother kind.
To show Gods love aright, she bore to men a Savior,
When half spent was the night.
The shepherds heard the story proclaimed by angels bright,
How Christ, the Lord of glory was born on earth this night.
To Bethlehem they sped and in the manger found Him,
As angel heralds said.
This Flower, whose fragrance tender with sweetness fills the air,
Dispels with glorious splendor the darkness everywhere;
True Man, yet very God, from sin and death He saves us,
And lightens every load.
O Savior, Child of Mary, who felt our human woe,
O Savior, King of glory, who dost our weakness know;
Bring us at length we pray, to the bright courts of Heaven,
And to the endless day!