What is your Favourite Christmas Carol?

[avocadoandchill]

I like the three ships one.

In the bleak midwinter

In the bleak midwinter definitely

Snow has fallen snow on snow snow on snoooow

Good choice

Little donkey

O little town of Bethlehem
It came upon a midnight clear

Carol of the bells

Oh holy night
good king Wenceslaus

Oh Holy Night

I love In the Bleak Midwinter, but I also love O Holy Night. Not sure which I prefer.

In the Bleak Midwinter. In particular the setting by Harold Darke.

We Three Kings of Orient Are.

Although I suspect this is because my class rebelliously belted out a rude version at a carol service in our village square which mortified our teacher and still makes me laugh over thirty years later.

So many good ones! Yet the carol singers we get always sing we wish you a merry Christmas and stick out their hand for their cash.

Coventry Carol
and
Carol of the Bells

Too many and different ones for different occasions.
Away in a manger by tiny children.
Adeste Fidelis as a decent ‘belt it out and raise the roof’ hymn as the Christmas Eve finale. Must be in Latin though.
A pure voice opening Christmas with Once in Royal David’s city.
Silent night at our candlelit village Carol service.
To play, Lo How a rose ere blooming or O Holy night. Love the Sussex Carol too.

Haha oh yes I remember singing a rude version too!

It's a good tune though.

I might see if I can get a cd of them.

In The Bleak Midwinter is glorious, but my favourite is Jesus Christ The Apple Tree, particularly when sung by King’s College choir or similar.

Coventry carol
oh Immanuel it’s an advent hymn love it.
I saw three ships
past three o clock.I think it’s called.

Oh Holy Night
Carol of the Bells
It Came Upon a midnight clear

O Come O Come Immanuel
Come Come to the manger.

In The Bleak Mid Winter - for me this is a perfect song for piety, though in some ways a bit self-indulging, sanctimonious even. Dish out some help, before going back to the castle. Food banks rings a bell.

Hark The Herald Angels Sing - this is uplifting, about being within humankind, joyous, hopeful and prosperous. All being together, as one. It is a happy, joyful, song about living together. Not in the same house though.

We Three Kings - this is a cover version. According to the alternate rhyme they came 'bearing their gifts from Leamington Spa'. Or Silicon Spa as it is now known. This is a song about streaming the latest video game - Gold, Frankincense and Forza Horizon. It is about gifts. Before Bitcoin.

Oh Holy night or Silent night. I actually cry to both of them 🤣

I feel like I read the question wrong as my answer was going to be "Muppets".

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I like Hark The Herald Angels Sing, mainly because of the trumpet-like tenor line. Even if it seems to embrace the heresy of docetism.

Carol of the bells

Carol of the bells because it's slightly creepy.