Carols make me cry, every single time!

[Moaningturtle]

Just channel hopping and come across choir boys singing Once in Royal David’s City in Westminster Abbey, and that’s it I’m gone!!

I’m not religious and don’t really have much of a childhood connection to carols beyond primary school assemblies. I have no idea why they get me in the feels so much. I sob my way through Carols from Kings every year.

Anyone got a particular carol that gets to them?

Holy night

Love it

Oh yes, that’s a beautiful one 😭

Angels We Have Heard on High
The First Noel
Adeste Fidelis
Hark the Herald Angels Sing
Ding Song Merrily on High

All absolute bangers. I'm not religious either but spent some of yesterday listening to a playlist by the choir of King's College, Cambridge. Loved it.

O come o come Emmanuel gives me actually weeps.

Same with O Holy Night.

Also not religious :D

I've gone off Oh Holy Night because it seems to have been covered by the world and their aunt. Everyone from Mariah to Michael Bublé

In the bleak mid winter every time ! It's the line about 'what shall I bring him poor as I am' blub !!

Choirs are very emotional in themselves. And if you're actually there at the time it kind of goes right into your soul your very being somehow especially if you're also singing along. It's the vibrations of all the harmonies I think that seem to get me anyway. Pity I can't sing that well

@lollipoprainbow

In the bleak mid winter every time ! It's the line about 'what shall I bring him poor as I am' blub !!

Yes! That line 😭😭

@JustLikeaJingleBell that’s so true, they move your soul.

There’s also something about knowing the same carols we’re sung in the same way in the same cathedrals for hundreds of years. It’s like travelling through time.

Silent Night/Stille Nacht for me. Just switched on R3 and it's playing. Instant tears in my eyes, am having a sob. I think it's partly that it makes me think of the soldiers in WW1 singing it together across the divides, in the appalling conditions of the trenches, on Christmas Day, and also that it's just really beautiful music.

Taverner's The Lamb also gets me. I went to a youth choir concert last weekend and they sang it and I had tears in my eyes.

I could happily never hear Christmas pop music ever again after working in retail over several festive seasons, but carols and other traditional Christmas music are wonderful.

Am very glad it's not just me!

Oh me too! I do have some wonderful childhood memories connected with carols so maybe that is why, but I still can't explain the effect some have on me. Normally it's Silent Night or O Come Emmanuel that get me, but the other day O Little Town of Bethlehem was played on the radio and I properly sobbed. There is something about the emotion in the lines "the hopes and fears of all the years are met in thee tonight" that breaks my heart, especially in light of the current times.

I'm like this with brass bands when I hear them play at Christmas. My toddler and I stood rapt in the entrance atrium to our local tesco extra a few years back, whilst all other busy shoppers just rushed by and ignored! We gave them a round of applause and the performers looked touched but I just thought it was so powerful, nostalgic and Christmassy. Brought a tear to my eye. You hardly see them anymore (even before covid) which is a shame.

Hark the Herald - the final verse with the descant. It brings a tear to my eye every time as its just so joyous!

Exactly the same OP, and what's worse is when I try to sing along 🙈

In the Bleak Mid Winter always get me blubbing DH

They're just so lovely though to listen to, so calming

I love the traditional ones the best that I know so well.
I also ended up not being able to turn off Songs of Praise earlier set in Westminster Cathedral as it was so glorious to listen to

The traditional carols always get me, particularly O Holy Night, Silent Night and In The Bleak Mid-winter when sung by a choir. I don't know why, I think it's probably memories of childhood and having gone to a faith school.

Off to carols by candlelight at 6pm in my church and praying it's not our last live Christmas service this year. So many lovely carols. I've been listening to Maddy Prior's Tapestry of Carols this afternoon which are joyous and won't make you cry!

The hopes and fears of all the years 😭 makes me think of my tiny newborns and also my dear mum who loves the carols and isn’t here any more

I welled up when the soloist sang the first verse of Once in Royal Davids city unaccompanied in our village church today. I always do. The problem was, I was taking the service so I was a bit visible, sniffing at the front!

My dads funeral was on Dec 23 and we had his favourite Carol Silent Night sang at it. I still can't listen to it.

I love most of the trad ones, when sung by proper choirs (not murdered by celebs). Away In A Manger especially can make me weepy, but also In The BleaK Midwinter, Three Kings From Persian Lands Afar, and plenty of others.

My mum gave birth to my DB at home as carol singers sang ' Once in Royal David's city ' outside. His middle name is David .
I agree with you op ..I cry at each and every one too .😭

Oh absolutely yes!
Pre covid I worked all over the country and travelled by train. Just before Christmas I was at a busy station up north and the Salvation Army started playing. I wasn't feeling down or especially sentimental but the tears were rolling down my face!
Other passengers were asking if I was ok, all I could mumble was " oh it's the band, it's just so lovely"
I think they thought I was mental

Most Carol's make me cry.
I think Christmas is a very emotional time