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What is your Favourite Christmas Carol?

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avocadoandchill · 22/11/2022 19:43

I like the three ships one.

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Taytocrisps · 22/11/2022 21:40

Violinist64 · 22/11/2022 21:10

The Sussex Carol is my all time favourite but I love so many others:
O, Little Town of Bethlehem
Hark, the Herald Angels Sing
God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen
Good Christian Men Rejoice
Christians Awake
Good King Wenceslas
The Zither Carol ….
And many, many more.

Oh yes, I'd forgotten about the Sussex Carol.

Ok then, I've narrowed it down to three.

Witheringheights83 · 22/11/2022 21:41

@NyanBinaryJohn that's lovely! I don't think I've heard that before.

Gosh carols are so evocative aren't they Smile

willowstar · 22/11/2022 21:41

As well as the traditional carol's I love to listen to Whitney Houston's version of Do you Hear What I Hear?

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PurpleFlower1983 · 22/11/2022 21:42

We Three Kings

Oh Holy Night

Silent Night

Pieceofpurplesky · 22/11/2022 21:44

Another for In the Bleak Midwinter. So many fabulous versions - modern and old

SheWoreARaspberryBeret123 · 22/11/2022 21:46

Silent Night. Sung in 4 part harmony. It's beautiful.

SheWoreARaspberryBeret123 · 22/11/2022 21:47

MrsMitford3 · 22/11/2022 20:59

Silent Night

I always wonder why no one on Desert island Discs ever picks a Christmas song.
I would!!!
If I can have two I'd have White Christmas as well...

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soundsystem · 22/11/2022 21:47

God Rest Ye Merry, Gentleman

Partly for the fun of the mens/womens singing bits but mostly because of the year our minister properly lost it and had a rant about where the comma/pause should be: It's not the gentlemen who are merry! They've not had a night out and drink too much! (etc, etc)

BuckarooBanzai · 22/11/2022 21:48

Gaudete
Once in Royal David's city
Silent Night

suzyscat · 22/11/2022 21:48

God rest ye merry gentlemen
Hark the heralds angels sing
Ding dong merrily on high
Carol of Bells
Little donkey & we three kings

Actually I think I love them all. Not that bothered about 3 ships.

suzyscat · 22/11/2022 21:48

As if I missed oh come all ye faithful Confused

Loachworks · 22/11/2022 21:51

In the bleak midwinter, one of the few written by a woman. She also stitched the alter cloth in my local church, Christina Rossetti.

ancientgran · 22/11/2022 21:52

CaronPoivre · 22/11/2022 19:48

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.

I love Adeste Fidelis and yes it has to be Latin, also Silent Night would be my 2nd. I love Long Time Ago in Bethlehem but it has to be the Harry Belafonte version.

RisingSunn · 22/11/2022 21:53

In The Bleak Mid - Winter
Oh Cone Let us Adore Him.
Oh Holy Night

BedTaker · 22/11/2022 21:56

Can't believe I forgot about Gaudete, its an absolute banger!

ZooMount · 22/11/2022 21:58

O holy night

MammaWeasel · 22/11/2022 22:04

Carol of the bells and o Holy night

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avocadoandchill · 22/11/2022 22:06

soundsystem · 22/11/2022 21:47

God Rest Ye Merry, Gentleman

Partly for the fun of the mens/womens singing bits but mostly because of the year our minister properly lost it and had a rant about where the comma/pause should be: It's not the gentlemen who are merry! They've not had a night out and drink too much! (etc, etc)

IS IT NOT!? 🤯

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MammaWeasel · 22/11/2022 22:07

And the one that goes On Christmas night all Christians sing

appleyoudontevenknow · 22/11/2022 22:08

MammaWeasel · 22/11/2022 22:07

And the one that goes On Christmas night all Christians sing

Sussex!

Runnerduck34 · 22/11/2022 22:09

The Sussex carol

Thereisnolight · 22/11/2022 22:27

I love O Holy Night, Gaudete and the Coventry Carol.

If you like those you may like the Wexford Carol. Fairly new to me but apparently is an old Irish carol.

Thereisnolight · 22/11/2022 22:32

The Libera choir sing it very nicely!

Thereisnolight · 22/11/2022 22:35

And perhaps not strictly Christmas (or is it?) but Charlotte Church’s Pie Jesu is a spine-tingler.

LemonsAndCherries · 22/11/2022 22:37

Silent Night