Top 10 Christmas Carols (What is your favorite Christmas Carol?)

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[Salvation]

Top 10 Christmas Carols

Let the debate begin! Below is my subjective list of favorites, with videos of good to great renditions of each. I have also included my favorite line(s) of each song:

Top 10 Christmas Carols

10 - O Little Town of Bethlehem

Favorite line(s):

Yet in thy dark streets shineth
The everlasting Light
The hopes and fears of all the years
Are met in thee tonight

 

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9 - Angels We Have Heard on High

Favorite line(s):
Shepherds, why this jubilee?
Why your joyous strains prolong?
What the gladsome tidings be
Which inspire your heavenly song?

 

 

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8 - Joy To The World

Favorite line(s):
No more let sins and sorrows grow,
nor thorns infest the ground;
He comes to make His blessing flow
far as the curse is found,

 

 

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7 - What Child is This?

Favorite line(s):
This, this is Christ the King,
Whom shepherds guard and Angels sing;
Haste, haste, to bring Him laud,
The Babe, the Son of Mary.

 

 

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6 - Silent Night

Favorite line(s):
Shepherds quake at the sight
Glories stream from heaven afar

 

 

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5 - O Come O Come Emmanuel

Favorite line(s):
O come, O come, Emmanuel
And ransom captive Israel
That mourns in lonely exile here
Until the Son of God appear

 

 

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4 - Hark! The Herald Angels Sing

Favorite line(s):
Late in time behold Him come
Offspring of a Virgin's womb
Veiled in flesh the Godhead see
Hail the incarnate Deity

 

 

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3 - O Come All Ye Faithful

Favorite line(s):
O come ye, O come ye to Bethlehem.
Come and behold Him,
Born the King of Angels;
O come, let us adore Him,

 

 

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2 - Once In Royal David's City

Favorite line(s):
For He is our childhood's pattern;
Day by day, like us, He grew;
He was little, weak, and helpless,
Tears and smiles, like us He knew;
And He cares when we are sad,
And he shares when we are glad.

 

 

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1 - O Holy Night

Favorite line(s):
Fall on your knees! Oh, hear the angel voices!

 

 

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Just Missed the Cut:

• Away In A Manger
• Mary, Did You Know?
• The First Noel
• Go Tell It On The Mountain
• It Came Upon a Midnight Clear
• Angels We Have Heard on High
• God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
• Do You Hear What I Hear?
• I Saw Three Ships
• Breath of Heaven
• We Three Kings

[FlingWingFlyer]

I don't know if it falls into this category but my favorite is "The Angels Cried" by Alan Jackson and Alison Krauss.

[ElayneJ]

Interesting. Thanks!

[xzins]

I do find it hard to believe that “Once in David’s Royal City” won out in popularity over all of those others except “O Holy Night.” I have trouble believing it won out over all but 2 on the honorable mention list.

I guess we just don’t sing it much in my part of the country.

I can’t recall ever having sung it.

[eastforker]

It doesn’t matter as long as the girl in those hyudai commercials sings it.

[dfwgator]

Kasia Kowalska singing the Polish Christmas Carol “Mizerna Cicha.”

[ReneeLynn]

O Holy Night. My absolute favorite because it’s got the entire message. “...till He appeared and the soul felt it’s worth...”. Shivers, every time.

[FlJoePa]

Little Toy Trains - Glen Campbell

Actually ANY Glen Campbell Christmas song is great. For some reason, his voice just suits Christmas songs. I also love all Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra Christmas music.

[Salvation]

Never heard of that.

[Lakeshark]

I vote for the entire bunch, I rotate which one I like the best and it works well!

[Salvation]

I wondered about that one too. But it was the blogger’s personal choices so......

We can list ours now! LOL!

There is one that is in the back of my brain that isn’t coming out yet. I’ll post it when I remember the title.

[BenKenobi]

Let’s see.

“Anges des nos compagnes”
“Silent Night”
“Adestes Fideles”
“What child is this”
“Away in a Manger”
“Go tell it on the mountain”

[Salvation]

Can you translate that title for us “Uneducated and non-Polish speaking ones”?

Thanks.

[xzins]

I’m thinking that Silent Night is the favorite of more people I’ve met in my years of ministry than any other. It is always the focus of candle-lighting service on Christmas Eve.

I wish there were a few more really good, singable Advent songs. O Come, O Come is mystery & wonder and then it goes downhill from there.

[Salvation]

I love singing it too. Did you notice that the blogger put that as #9 and then down below as just missed the cut? LOL!

[Shady]

Each one has a unique spirit. Cannot, and will not name a favorite, My “favorite” is the season itself! Merry Christmas!

[Salvation]

Isaiah was foretold it
This rose I have in mind.
With Mary we behold it,
The Virgin Mother kind.
She bore to us a Savior,
When half spent was the night.

[Salvation]

**“Go tell it on the mountain”**

I was just about to put that out here in the mix. You beat me....Blessings in song!

[chooseascreennamepat]

“‘O Holy Night’ sung by a good female singer is hard to beat.”

When I was in the 6th grade, my class had a transient girl(her dad was in construction and moved often). She had a fantastic voice (she was also beautiful) and hearing her sing O Holy Night brought a tear. Even the memory does it.

She sang it for our class presentation and the auditorium was packed.

After she finished, there wasn't a dry eye in the place. After a 10-15 second period of silence, the audience burst into applause which lasted for a full 2 minutes. She moved on after the Christmas break. We never saw her again.

[Celtic Conservative]

I heard that version on satellite radio the other day, it just blew me away. I’m thinking aout getting the cd.

CC

[surrey]

I’m with you. Two of my favorites. I’ve actually had tears in my eyes walking through a store if i hear “O Holy Night”.