Favorite Holiday Song,Tell us your favorite.~13.Dec.07 Freeper Canteen

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, Hope, for today's Pledge. Thanks to you, AfghanMan and Penguin Girl, for your parts in helping keep all of us free and safe.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, Troops and Veterans, for your service to our country.

Bare Naked Ladies ~ God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen

[MinuteGal]

Fatima, I'm so grateful for the link. What a montage of familiar art and architecture as well as much of the new.....all appearing before my wondering eyes as the choir beautifully sings in the background.

Many blessings to you and yours during the Christmas season and during the New Year.

Leni

[COBOL2Java]

Favorite secular (cynical) Christmas Song: The Santa Song From invader zim

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Favorite sacred Christmas Song:

LO, HOW A ROSE E’ER 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 e’er blooming from tender stem hath sprung!
Of Jesse’s 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 God’s 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!

[2CAVTrooper]

Glad you liked it.

[Arioch7]

Thanks for the heads up Kathy!

My favorite song is Carol of the bells. I love that song.

I hope you all are having a great Christmas season! :)

Arioch7

[Kathy in Alaska]

Welcome, COBOL2Java, and thanks for sharing this beautiful song. When I get home tonight I’ll go looking for it.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Hey, you...how are you? We have no snow.

Thanks, Troops and Veterans, for your service to our country.

Mormon Tabernacle Choir ~ Carol of The Bells

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, Troops and Veterans, for your service to our country.

Mormon Tabernacle Choir ~ O Holy Night

[doug from upland]

Wonderful

[uncitizen]

It’s that a great tune or what?

[westmichman]

“Ding Dong Merrily on High” by Blackmore’s Night.

[Kathy in Alaska]

It is a beautiful song.

[Kathy in Alaska]

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[dbacks]

Mel Torme, “The Christmas Song” A number-one forever.

[mckenzie7]

O Come, O Come, Emmanuel

Melody - French Processional, 15th Century

Latin hymn, 12th century, tr. John Neale 1818-1866
O come, O come Emmanuel,
And ransom captive Israel,
That mourns in lonely exile here,
Until the Son of God appear.
Chorus:
Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel
Shall come to thee, O Israel!

2. Oh, come, oh, come, great Lord of might,
Who to Thy tribes on Sinai’s height
In Ancient times once gave the law
In cloud, and majesty and awe.
Chorus:

3. Oh, come, strong branch of Jesse, free
Thine own from Satans tyranny;
From depths of hell Thy people save
And give them vict’ry o’er the grave.
Chorus:

4. Oh, come, Thou Key of David, come
And open wide our heavenly home:
Make safe the way that leads on high
And close the path to misery.
Chorus:

5. O Come Thou Dayspring, from on high
And cheer us by Thy drawing nigh;
Disperse the gloomy clouds of night,
And death’s dark shadows put to flight.
Chorus:

6. O come, Thou Wisdom from on high,
And order all things, far and nigh;
To us the path of knowledge show,
And cause us in her ways to go.
Chorus:

7. O come desire of nations, bind
All peoples in one heart and mind;
Bid envy, strife, and quarrels cease;
Fill the whole world with heaven’s peace.
Chorus:
Veni, veni Emmanuel,
Captivum solve Israel,
Qui gemit in exilio
Privatus Dei Filio.
Gaude, gaude! Emmanuel
nascetur pro te, Israel.

Veni, o Jesse Virgula;
Ex hostis tuos ungula,
De specu tuos tartari
Deduc et antro barathri.
Gaude, gaude! Emmanuel
nascetur pro te, Israel.

Veni, veni, o Oriens
Solare nos adveniens;
Noctis depele nebulas
Dirasque noctis tenebras.
Gaude, gaude! Emmanuel
nascetur pro te, Israel.

Veni clavis Davidica;
Regna reclude caelica;
Fac iter tutum superum,
Et claude vias inferum.
Gaude, gaude! Emmanuel
nascetur pro te, Israel.

Veni, veni Adonai,
Qui populo in Sinai
Legem dedisti vertice,
In majestate gloriae.
Gaude, gaude! Emmanuel
nascetur pro te, Israel.

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Based on seven antiphons sung in medieval monasteries beginning a week before Christmas, these twelfth-century Latin verses were translated and reduced to five by the nineteenth-century English carol writer John M. Neale, who also wrote “Good King Wenceslas.” The tune sung today was adapted from a number of twelfth-century plainsongs which were chanted according to the natural rhythms of the words.

[tongue-tied]

hmmm...so that’s why my phone keeps “rebooting” here. It is looking for the loo. LOL

[beachn4fun]

hmmm...so that’s why my phone keeps “rebooting” here. It is looking for the loo. LOL

LOL.

[beachn4fun]

LOL

OMG! Too funny.

Thanks, sugar, for giving me a good laugh first thing this morning.

Am pinging a few FRiends who might have missed this.

[GodBlessUSA]

ROTFLOL! :)
Thanks!