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Top Christmas Carols & Lyrics: Get the Best Xmas Songs Playlist for The Festival
Top Christmas Carols & Lyrics: Get the Best Xmas Songs Playlist for The Festival Season
Winter has set in and so has the cheerful and joyous Christmas spirit. Everywhere people are busy trying to find recipes for cake and other Christmas goodies. Retailers are busy trying to woo shoppers with offers, discounts, and sales. The schools have started their Christmas celebration preparations with skits on the birth of Jesus and Christmas tree celebration and crib decoration and carol competitions being held. The children are busy writing letters to Santa Claus and eagerly waiting for their gifts. Office workers have started playing the game of Secret Santa and brought in the festive cheer to their work as well. However, what really differentiates Christmas is the Christmas carols that are sung, here we have listed down some of the top best and the most popular Xmas carols with their lyrics so that your festive song playlist is sorted. Christmas is the religious and most important festival of Christians and is celebrated with much pomp and fervour throughout the world. It is celebrated every year on December 25 as the birthday of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ’s birthday is commemorated and celebrated as Christmas every year. Although Christmas is the religious festival of Christians it is celebrated by people of other faiths as well. Carols are sung to proclaim the birth of Jesus and spread the festive cheer. Sample a few of the best Christmas carols and their lyrics below. Merry Christmas : Significance, Story, Celebrations Related To The Birth of Jesus Christ 1. Go Tell it on the Mountain Go Tell it on the Mountain is an African-American spiritual song that was compiled by John Wesley Work, Jr. and dates back to at least 1865. It is regarded as a Christmas carol as it spreads the message of Jesus Christ’s birth. Over the years it has been sung and recorded by many popular pop artists like Peter, Paul and Mary and Simon & Garfunkel. 2.Joy to the World Joy the the World is a very popular Christmas carol and was written by an English Hymn Writer Isaac Watts and is based on Psalm 98, 96:11-12 and Genesis 3:17-18, in the Bible. The carol talks about the rejoicing of heaven and earth on the birth of Jesus Christ. 3.O Come All Ye Faithful O Come All Ye Faithful was originally written in Latin by Adeste Fidelas and has been attributed to numerous authors including John Francis Wade, John Reading, and King John IV of Portugal. An early manuscript of the carol was found in the library of the Ducal Palace of Vila Viçosa which bore King John IV of Portugal’s name. However, the English version written in 1841 by English Catholic priest Frederick Oakeley is the most well-known and most sung. 4.Hark! The Herald Angels Sing This Christmas carol first made its appearance in 1739 in the collection Hymns and Sacred Poems. It was written by Charles Wesley. However, the popular version in use today has been an edited version probably by Charles Wesley’s co-worker George Whitefield. The melody used today has also been changed from what Charles Wesley composed. Felix Mendelssohn gave the melody with which the Christmas carol is sung today. 5.The First Noel The First Noel is a traditional English Christmas carol and the date of its origin is not known. In Early Modern English Noel means Christmas. The First Noel Christmas carol is of Cornish origin and first published in Carols Ancient and Modern (1823) and Gilbert and Sandys Carols (1833). The melody used in this carol is unusual among English folk songs as it uses on musical phrase repeated twice, followed by a refrain which is a variation of the same phrase. 6.The Little Drummer Boy The Little Drummer Boy is also known as Carol of the Drum and was written by American classical music composer and teacher Katherine Kennicott Davis. She wrote the carol in 1941 and was first recorded by the Trapp Family Singers in 1951. The song talks about how a little drummer boy is called by the Magi on the birth of Jesus Christ and since he did not have a gift for Jesus Christ he plays his little drum on Mother Mary’s encouragement and hearing the beats of the drum infant Jesus smiled. 7.Jingle Bells Jingle Bells is probably the most popular and peppy Christmas carol ever. The song talks about Santa Claus and him riding his sleigh with his reindeers and jingling his bell to inform his arrival. It was written by James Lord Pierpont (1822–1893) in the autumn of 1857. The song was originally intended to be sung for Thanksgiving and had no Christmas connection but it got associated with the festival in 1857 after it was first performed on Washington Street in Boston. 8.Silent Night Silent Night is a popular Christmas carol and is sung by many well-known pop artists over the years. It was composed in 1818 by Franz Xaver Gruber to lyrics by Joseph Mohr. It was written and composed in Oberndorf bei Salzburg, Austria. In 2011, the UNESCO declared Silent Night as an intangible cultural heritage. Bill Crosby sung a version which is the third best-selling single of all time. 9.Gloria (Angels We have heard on High) Angels We have Heard On High or Gloria is a Christmas carol written by James Chadwick, Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle and is sung from the music from a French song called Les Anges Dans Nos Campagnes. It is a French carol with a few words from the original version still present in Chadwick’s version. It narrates the birth of Jesus Christ as narrated in the Gospel of Luke and depicts the scene in which shepherds encounter angels singing and praising the birth of the Lord in the manger. 10.We Three Kings of Orient Are We Three Kings of Orient Are or The Quest of the Magi is a Christmas carol that narrates the scene where the three kings or the magi come bearing gifts to hail the birth of Jesus Christ. The carol was written by John Henry Hopkins, Jr. in 1857. It remains one of the most popular Christmas carol and depicts a happening from the Bible and relates the birth of Jesus Christ. 11.Mary’s Boy Child The Christmas carol Mary’s Boy Child was written by Jester Hairston in 1956 and was based on a calypso rhythm. One of the most popular versions of the song was sung by Harry Belafonte in 1956 and later by Mahalia Jackson. One of the best-known cover-versions of the song was performed by Boney M, a German-based disco-group. It is one of the best-selling singles of all time in the UK. With these Christmas carols, we believe you will definitely be able to make the most of your Christmas celebration. So if you’re about to go Christmas carol singing in your neighbourhood or with your church choir we are sure with these songs and lyrics at your fingers you will definitely nail them; and if you’re about to take part in carol competitions then you have a gamut of carols for you to sing and practice on. Merry Christmas everyone! 
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