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Christmas is such a special time of year filled with joy and goodwill. It's a time for Christmas pageants, singing carols, giving gifts and decorating homes.To further your festive spirit, you may ...
The poem has been set to music as a Christmas carol by many composers including R O Morris, Harold Darke, Leo Sowerby, John Kelsall and John Rutter [2] and is also sung to the traditional Irish melody "Garton". [3] More recently, the poem was given a modern treatment by Jars of Clay on its 2007 album, Christmas Songs. [4]
"God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen", also known as "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen", is an English traditional Christmas carol.It is in the Roxburghe Collection (iii. 452), and is listed as no. 394 in the Roud Folk Song Index.
"I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day" is a Christmas carol based on the 1863 poem "Christmas Bells" by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. [1] The song tells of the narrator hearing Christmas bells during the American Civil War , but despairing that "hate is strong and mocks the song of peace on earth, good will to men".
100 Best Christmas Songs That Are Full of Cheer Yulia-Images - Getty Images Get ready, because you're about to enter a time when Christmas music finds a way into every square inch of your life!
May the Christmas morning make us happy to be thy children, and Christmas evening bring us to our beds with grateful thoughts, forgiving and forgiven, for Jesus' sake. Amen." — Robert Louis ...
The song is now performed by choirs around the world, especially during the Christmas season as a Christmas carol. [5] Another motivation of the song may have been to Christianize old English winter season songs used in wassailing the apple orchards — pouring out libations or engaging in similar ceremonies to seek fertility of the trees. [6]
The poem appeared in a broadside of the same name around 1950. [3] It was printed in Thurman's 1953 book, Meditations of the Heart, and again in his 1973 meditations booklet, The Mood of Christmas. [1] The verse has been set to music by British composer and songwriter Adrian Payne, both as a song and as a choral (SATB) piece.