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Top ten Carols and things you didn't know about them
Times Online ^ | December 7, 2007 | Joanna Sugden

Posted on 12/10/2007 10:37:26 AM PST by NYer

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1 posted on 12/10/2007 10:37:29 AM PST by NYer
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To: Salvation; narses; SMEDLEYBUTLER; redhead; Notwithstanding; nickcarraway; Romulus; ...

Please post your favorites!


2 posted on 12/10/2007 10:38:17 AM PST by NYer ("Where the bishop is present, there is the Catholic Church" - Ignatius of Antioch)
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To: NYer
Up with the Carols!

Down with OCP!

3 posted on 12/10/2007 10:41:44 AM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: ArrogantBustard

Hear, hear!


4 posted on 12/10/2007 10:43:07 AM PST by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN, 3rd Bn. 5th Marines, RVN 1969. St. Michael the Archangel defend us in battle!)
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To: NYer

Where is “O Holy NIght?” This is by far my favorite carol. I am humbled when listening to it.


5 posted on 12/10/2007 10:43:08 AM PST by hoe_cake
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To: NYer

BUMP!


6 posted on 12/10/2007 10:43:47 AM PST by Publius6961 (MSM: Israelis are killed by rockets; Lebanese are killed by Israelis.)
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To: NYer

Gesu Bambino
The Coventry Carol
The Huron Carol
Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella
I Wonder as I Wander

and Mary’s Boy Child. :)


7 posted on 12/10/2007 10:44:44 AM PST by Lil'freeper (Don't taze me, bro! [[NaNoWriMo Winnah! WoCo: 57436/50K]])
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To: NYer
[O Come All Ye Faithful] was written by John Francis Wade, a Roman Catholic who fled France during the Jacobean rebellion and worked as a music teacher in England.

That doesn't sound right. Why should a Catholic flee a Catholic country like France just because a Catholic Country like Scotland is revolting against England? And why should the fleeing Catholic go to a Protestant country like England?

8 posted on 12/10/2007 10:48:14 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (The broken wall, the burning roof and tower. And Agamemnon dead.)
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Joy to the World is always sung as the closing hymn at funerals in my husband’s family.

Joy to the world, the Lord is come!
Let earth receive her King;
Let every heart prepare Him room,
And Heaven and nature sing,
And Heaven and nature sing,
And Heaven, and Heaven, and nature sing.

Joy to the earth, the Savior reigns!
Let men their songs employ;
While fields and floods, rocks, hills and plains
Repeat the sounding joy,
Repeat the sounding joy,
Repeat, repeat, the sounding joy.

No more let sins and sorrows grow,
Nor thorns infest the ground;
He comes to make His blessings flow
Far as the curse is found,
Far as the curse is found,
Far as, far as, the curse is found.

He rules the world with truth and grace,
And makes the nations prove
The glories of His righteousness,
And wonders of His love,
And wonders of His love,
And wonders, wonders, of His love.


9 posted on 12/10/2007 10:48:33 AM PST by kalee ( No burka for me...EVER.)
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“Go Tell It On The Mountain” is a great gospel song we listened to growing up.

And in our Methodist Church we sing “ChristmasTide,” which is so beautiful and peaceful.


10 posted on 12/10/2007 10:48:54 AM PST by hoe_cake
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To: kalee

I love that!


11 posted on 12/10/2007 10:50:22 AM PST by bonfire
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To: NYer

Some of my favorite Hanukkah songs that didn’t quite make it.

“Oi To The World”

“Come On Baby Light My Menorah”

“Matzo Men” by The Lower East Side Village People

“Enough With The Jingle Bells Already”

“Deck The Halls With Balls Of Challah”

And my favorite: “Silent Night,.... I Should Be So Lucky”


12 posted on 12/10/2007 10:55:08 AM PST by garyhope
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What, no story about “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen”—!!


13 posted on 12/10/2007 10:57:22 AM PST by Mamzelle
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It’s really awesome to see when the carols were written and how they hold up through the years.


14 posted on 12/10/2007 10:57:29 AM PST by purpleraine
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To: garyhope

LOL! Balls of Challah!


15 posted on 12/10/2007 10:58:18 AM PST by Mamzelle
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To: NYer
JESUS WAS BORN A SAVIOR
(To the tune of "Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer")
Jesus was born a Savior
On a starry winter's eve
Born of the virgin, Mary
Still there's some who don't believe

All those who hated Jesus
Nailed Him to a cross
All those who truly loved Him
Suffered their greatest loss

When three days had come and gone
Jesus came to say
Do no cry for I am here
Believe in Me and I'll be near

Then the whole world will praise Him
As they shout on bended knee,
Jesus, you are my Savior
You alone have set me free
The kids love to sing this at Christmas time each year.
16 posted on 12/10/2007 10:59:04 AM PST by Sopater (A wise man's heart inclines him to the right, but a fool's heart to the left. ~ Ecclesiastes 10:2)
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My favorite “Do you hear what I hear” did not make the list. UGH!!!!!!


17 posted on 12/10/2007 11:01:19 AM PST by napscoordinator
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To: garyhope

roflol


18 posted on 12/10/2007 11:02:56 AM PST by kalee ( No burka for me...EVER.)
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To: ClearCase_guy
The article is wrong. He evidently fled to France after the second Jacobite rebellion (the '45).
19 posted on 12/10/2007 11:04:03 AM PST by Campion
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You know, God Rest Ye Merry GentleFOLKS is not in the running because just maybe it refers to White Men, don’tcha know? And you have to change it to Gentle People or Folks or something, and then the rhythm is off./s


20 posted on 12/10/2007 11:08:31 AM PST by bboop (Stealth Tutor)
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