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The King wrote "Green Groweth the Holly" as his own take on the developing Christmas carol style. It is not known exactly when King Henry wrote the carol but it is known to have been published in 1522. [6] In addition to writing the words, the King also composed the music. [7]
The words of the carol were included in Sylvester's 1861 collection A Garland of Christmas Carols where it is claimed to originate from "an old broadside, printed a century and a half since" [i.e. around 1711]: [7] Husk's 1864 Songs of the Nativity also includes the carol, stating: [8]
The Ghost of Christmas Present appears to the miserly Scrooge with a lavish Christmas spread, in a scene from Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol'. In an illustration from the original 1843 edition.
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 ...
Perhaps the Windsors have a festive get-together around the carol service. Lord Frederick Windsor, Sophie Winkleman, and their daughters Maud and Isabella attend The "Together At Christmas" Carol ...
"Here We Come A-wassailing" (or "Here We Come A-Caroling"), also known as "Here We Come A-Christmasing", "Wassail Song" and by many other names, is a traditional English Christmas carol and New Year song, [1] typically sung whilst wassailing, or singing carols, wishing good health and exchanging gifts door to door. [2]
According to NPR, in the Victorian era, Christmas had a much wider and varied palette, which featured combinations of red and green, red and blue, blue and green, or blue and white—and that ...
Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, commonly known as A Christmas Carol, is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & Hall in 1843 and illustrated by John Leech. It recounts the story of Ebenezer Scrooge , an elderly miser who is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the spirits of ...