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What's you favourite xmas carol?

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CatBling · 07/12/2019 09:12

I love...

God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen

Once in Royal David’s City

O Come, O Come Emmanuel

If I had to choose 1 it would probably have to be Once in Royal David’s City.

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CherryPavlova · 07/12/2019 09:47

Lots.
Come, come, come to the manger.
Away in the manger sung by pre school children
Adeste Fidelis (must be in latin)
Hark the Herald
Silent night sung as a lullaby on Christmas Eve
‘Opening’ Christmas with the pure voice of a child singing Once in Royal.
The rocking carol
See amid the winters snow
Good King Wenceslas sung in parts

30under · 07/12/2019 09:49

Hark the herald Angels sing

Christmas grace ( a new one to me, my choir is singing it)

Sparklybaublefest · 07/12/2019 09:52

Away in a manger sung by children makes me cry, I am sure I am not alone

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Greyhound22 · 07/12/2019 09:55

It's my wedding anniversary tomorrow and at my wedding we had

O Come All Ye Faithful
Hark the Herald Angel

So they're my favourite - we signed the register to 'Oh Holy Night'

Sparklybaublefest · 07/12/2019 09:55

Smon & Garfunkel's Silent Night/7 o'clock news

GettingSewFrustrated · 07/12/2019 10:01

Oh Holy Night and Away in a Manger.

And I love the music at the opening of Adeste Fideles.

There’s a very musical teacher at DC’s school and she taught them all Do You Hear What I Hear. I never liked it before that but now I love it.

DrCoconut · 07/12/2019 10:06

Live, Bethlehem Down is awesome. So few people know about it.

DinosApple · 07/12/2019 10:10

Ding ding merrily on high is my absolute favourite. I'm going to be singing that all day now!
Followed by Hark the Herald Angel.

GoGoLego · 07/12/2019 10:10

Hark the herald
Once in royal David's city
Oh come all he faithful
St Day Carol

ScreamingValenta · 07/12/2019 10:11

Slightly less well-known one - The Sans Day Carol is beautiful. Like a more haunting version of The Holly and the Ivy.

LBOCS2 · 07/12/2019 10:22

To hear sung well, O Holy Night or Carol of the Bells.

To sing myself, Good King Wenceslas or Lo! He Comes With Clouds Descending.

DSis and I went to an excellent carol concert on Thursday at St Martin-In-The-Fields (where they also made us stand to sing, full marks to the conductor because it makes me cross when you sing carols sitting down!) and they had a really lovely programme.

LiveFatsDieYoGnu · 07/12/2019 10:50

DrCoconut - it gives me full-on goosebumps every time, no matter how often I hear or sing it. The poignancy of the text and Warlock's beautiful music are just sublime together.

Sallycinammonbangsthedruminthe · 07/12/2019 11:04

O Holy Night..is my favourite especially sang by IL Divo ...it makes me cry its so lovely.

AllYouGoodGoodPeople · 07/12/2019 11:07

O Holy Night - I have a version sung by a Welsh Male voice choir and it makes the hairs on my arms stand up when they get to 'fall to your knees'

lanbro · 07/12/2019 11:11

O Holy Night, hands down, makes me feel all emotional and shivery!

GBroGaLaLaLaLaLaLaLaLaLa · 07/12/2019 11:15

Carol Ann Duffy's Manchester Carols - all of them are lovely, but my favourite is the Apple Tree.

SerenDippitty · 07/12/2019 11:19

The Sussex carol.

God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen

Drabarni · 07/12/2019 11:24

Most of them mentioned so far Grin

I don't have a favourite. You've reminded me to check one locally, to which i'll be going on my own.

cwg1 · 07/12/2019 13:37

Lovely thread. Glad to see the rocking carol mentioned. I'd like to add I Wonder As I Wander. Also one I learnt about very recently - The Friendly Beasts.

Awwlookatmybabyspider · 07/12/2019 13:44

Oh Holy Night.
God rest ye Merry Gentlemen
Hark the Herald angels sing.
We three kings.

Awwlookatmybabyspider · 07/12/2019 13:48

If we can also include songs and not only Carols.

Lonely this Christmas, but It makes me sob.
Last Christmas
Have your self a Merry little Christmas
Do they know it’s Christmas

Bluerussian · 07/12/2019 13:53

SerenDippitty Sat 07-Dec-19 11:19:43
The Sussex carol.
God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen
........
Being as I'm very nearly 70, I have to tell you a song from my teen years:

God rest ye merry mentalmen lying peacefully in your beds.
The independent nuclear bomb is flying overhead
to kill off all those Russians while the rest of us are dead -
Oh oh tidings of comfort and joy etc

Toddlerteaplease · 07/12/2019 14:07

@catlovingdoctor mine too. Especially the version that goes right up to Easter.

I heard a version of Noel Nouvelet last year, that was mixed with Now the green Blade riseth. It was so beautiful.

All in the Morning

Bethlehem Down

Good king Wenceslas

O Radiant Dawn

Three ships

People look East.

I love choral music, so have too many favourites to list!

Toddlerteaplease · 07/12/2019 14:09

We always sing O'come all he faithful in Latin at midnight mass and I much prefer it to the English version.

VenusClapTrap · 07/12/2019 14:17

Got to be Hark the Herald Angels Sing. But I bloody love all of them, despite being a raving atheist.

At the end of junior school, when they collected in our copies of the Oxford Book of Carols for the last time, I hid mine and smuggled it home. I was a very law abiding child and never did anything remotely naughty, so stealing a book was a massive deal and I can vividly remember how hot I felt walking home with my contraband in my school bag. Blush

I’ve still got it.