Monday 18 December 2017

Christmas Carols – What's Your Favourite?





I found it surprisingly difficult to pick my favourite Christmas Carol.  There were a number of strong contenders.

Silent Night – calm and serene

Once in Royal David's City – easy enough for me to play on the piano

We Three Kings – ruined a bit for me by Fred Dagg's parody

We three kings of Orient are
One on a tractor, two in a car
One on a scooter
Tooting his hooter
Following yonder star
Oh, oh
Star of wonder
Star of light
Star of bewdy, she'll be right
Star of glory, that's the story
Following yonder star . ..


Hark the Herald Angels – always good to hear

Away in a Manger – lovely simple tune

The First Noel – not top of the list for me

God Rest You Merry Gentlemen

O Come All Ye Faithful – a serious contender – great crescendo

Mary's Boy Child – lovely

While Shepherd's Watched Their Flocks at Night – not tops either

I completely excluded Christmas songs that are not really carols – like, White Christmas, I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus, Jingle Bells, Santa Claus is Coming to Town, Santa Baby etc

So where did I end up…. A dead heat between Mary's Boy Child and O Come All Ye Faithful

What's your favourite Christmas tune?

PS  Most of  the Christmas Carol images seemed to have snow in them – which is odd for me given that it is high summer here in New Zealand – but I finally found one that didn't.

4 comments:

  1. My favorite is Little Drummer Boy and has been my favorite from childhood. Next is Mary, Did You Know. It was written by Mark Lowery and someone else whose name I can’t remember.
    Sending you a Merry Christmas from Texas!

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  2. I love all those tunes...and its extremely hard to choose a favourite. I do love Oh Holy Night...and for some reason I cant get through The First Noel without choking up
    Have a Merry Christmas x

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  3. That’s a lot of favorites! Mine is O Holy Night. I can’t imagine Christmas in the summer. Merry Christmas Carole.

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  4. O Holy Night, the Nat King Cole version

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