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

[Salvation]

I’ll second you on the favorite Christmas Song.

White Christmas

I’m dreaming of a White Christmas
Just like the ones I used to know

[Salvation]

Finally, the song from the back of my brain.

“I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day
Their old familiar carol play.....

[Salvation]

I thought of that one too.

Thanks.

[I still care]

Mary did you know makes me cry every time I hear it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0WIJw8JVeU

It’s one of the few songs that takes Jesus out of the manger and talks about Him being Lord of Creation.

Mary, did you know
That your baby boy will one day walk on water?
Did you know
That your baby boy will save our sons and daughters?
Did you know
That your baby boy has come to make you new?
This child that you’ve delivered
Will soon deliver you

Mary, did you know
That your baby boy will give sight to a blind man?
Did you know
That your baby boy will calm a storm with His hand?
Did you know
That your baby boy has walked where angels trod?
And when you kiss your little boy
You’ve kissed the face of God

Mary, did you know?
The blind will see
The deaf will hear
And the dead will live again
The lame will leap
The dumb will speak
The praises of the Lamb

Mary, did you know
That your baby boy is Lord of all creation?
Did you know
That your baby boy will one day rules the nations?
Did you know
That your baby boy is heaven’s perfect Lamb?
This sleeping child you’re holding
Is the Great I Am

[Salvation]

I believe that she did know. But kept these things in her heart.

[mrs. a]

In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan,
Earth stood hard as iron, water like a stone;
Snow had fallen, snow on snow, snow on snow,
In the bleak midwinter, long ago.

Our God, Heaven cannot hold Him, nor earth sustain;
Heaven and earth shall flee away when He comes to reign.
In the bleak midwinter a stable place sufficed
The Lord God Almighty, Jesus Christ.

Enough for Him, whom cherubim, worship night and day,
Breastful of milk, and a mangerful of hay;
Enough for Him, whom angels fall before,
The ox and ass and camel which adore.

Angels and archangels may have gathered there,
Cherubim and seraphim thronged the air;
But His mother only, in her maiden bliss,
Worshipped the beloved with a kiss.

What can I give Him, poor as I am?
If I were a shepherd, I would bring a lamb;
If I were a Wise Man, I would do my part;
Yet what I can I give Him: give my heart.

[madamemayhem]

me too on O Holy Night. i love it and i cry almost every time i hear it. we saw Mannheim Steamroller last night and they did a wonderful job with that song. i also love the Hallelujah Chorus. MS did an awesome job with that too.

[LonePalm]

Channing?

< /sarcasm>

Merry Christmas Everyone.

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

[VanDeKoik]

Ah, that kind of jazzy/swing version!

I love that one too! Her voice is very nice.

[patriot08]

Oh Holy Night is my favorite.

[La Enchiladita]

It's my favorite, too:^)

In the Bleak Midwinter

[I still care]

Well, the song doesn’t make a statement from Mary; it is more a questioning from us. Also, I can’t imagine Mary or anyone who was dwelling on earth can understand and see God in His fullness, as the song describes Him - the Great I AM, the Lord of all creation, walking in Eternity with the Angels, Ruling the Nations.

So doctrinally, I think the song is pretty sound. It doesn’t give me any real problems.

[Biggirl]

Religious, tie, “Silent Night” and “O Holy Night”, secular, “I’ll Be Home For Christmas”. The later, touched me very much, because I was singing it to an older cat, one with FIV, at the local no-kill shelter I volunteer, with the wish that he will get the Christmas gift of a commitment to an adoption. He is now adopted and will be going home on 1/6/11 to a new forever home.

[Mr. Wright]

You have got to go to YOU TUBE and here this song as sung by Pavarotti - with the children’s choir.

[Biggirl]

Another secular favorite, “The Christmas Song”, Nat King Cole. From the same recording, not too well known, “A Cradle In Bethlehem”, just the title itself, brings tears to my ears.

[Pinkbell]

“O Holy Night!” and “Mary Did You Know?” are two of my favorites.

[Biggirl]

“A Cradle In Bethlehem”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVUDrENGg5s

[Biggirl]

“Silent Night” and “Oh Holy Night”, also brings tears to my eyes.

[OpusatFR]

Mass procession began tonight it Veni Veni Emmanuel. Since it is never sung prior to this week, it is always a joy to hear it.

Now I KNOW Christmas is coming!

[21twelve]

‘Lo How a Rose is my favorite as well.