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The little Lord Jesus laid down his sweet head. The stars in the bright sky looked down where he lay, The little Lord Jesus asleep on the hay. The cattle are lowing, the baby awakes, But little Lord Jesus, no crying he makes. I love thee, Lord Jesus! look down from the sky, And stay by my cradle till morning is nigh.
Upon lying down, and going to sleep. Here I lay me down to sleep. To thee, O Lord, I give my Soul to keep, ... Carol Anne recites this prayer when she and her mother ...
Irish traditional, (Short Carol) "Christmas Day Is Come" (also known as "The Irish Carol") [20] [21] words by Fr. William Devereaux, 18th Century Irish traditional, Part of "The Kilmore Carols" "Codail A Linbh" / "Codail a Leanbh" ("Sleep Child") Lyrics are from 5th century poem, music by Michael McGlynn "The Kerry Christmas Carol" Irish ...
Tormé came across a spiral notepad with snippets of lyrics: "Chestnuts roasting on an open fire / Jack Frost nipping at your nose / Yuletide carols being sung by a choir / And folks dressed up ...
"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".
"The Rocking Carol", [1] also known as "Little Jesus, Sweetly Sleep" [2] and "Rocking", [3] is an English Christmas carol by Percy Dearmer. It was translated from Czech (" Hajej, nynej, Ježíšku ") [ 4 ] in 1928 and is performed as a lullaby to the baby Jesus .
It had been associated with the carol since at least the mid-18th century, when it was recorded by James Nares in a hand-written manuscript under the title "The old Christmas Carol". [13] Hone's version of the tune differs from the present melody in the third line. The full current melody was published by Chappell in 1855. [13] [14]
In common with many traditional songs and carols, the lyrics vary across books. The versions compared below are taken from The New English Hymnal (1986) (which is the version used in Henry Ramsden Bramley and John Stainer's Carols, New and Old), [1] [13] Ralph Dunstan's gallery version in the Cornish Songbook (1929) [14] and Reverend Charles Lewis Hutchins's version in Carols Old and Carols ...