Christmas carols
are based on Christian lyrics and relate, in the main,
to the Nativity. Christmas carols were introduced in to church services by St
Francis of Assisi in the 12th century.
As for the word carols, "carol" is a
derivative of the French word caroller, the interpretation of which means
dancing around in a circle. Carol and carols, eventually came to mean not only
to dance but included music and lyrics - hence Christmas Caroling.
The joyous themes for many traditional Christmas
carols were banned in England by the staunch Protestant Oliver Cromwell and
many of the very old Christmas carols and songs were subsequently lost for all
time. Christmas carols were only fully popularised again during the Victorian
era when they again expressed joyful and merry themes in their carol lyrics as
opposed to the normal, more sombre, Christian lyrics found in hymns. As
religious observances in the United States and England were closely linked the
popularity of Christmas carols grew in both countries in the 19th century.
Many Christmas traditions are relatively recent such
as Santa Claus and reindeer and bear no relation to Christmas carols. Today
Christmas songs and carols are also fast becoming a tradition.
Michael Buble – Cold
December Night
1)… are hung with 2)…
As 3)… sleep with one 4)… …
Well, now there's 5)… … toys at stake
Cause I'm 6)… now but not done hoping.
The twinkling of the 7)…
The scent of 8)… fill the household
Old 9)… Nick has taken flight
With a heart on board so please 10)… ….
Each year I 11)… … many different things
But 12)… … … what my heart 13)… … to bring
*So 14)… just fall in love with me 15)… …
There's 16)… else that I will need this Christmas
Won't be wrapped 17)… … …
I want 18)… that lasts 19)…
So 20)… … on this cold December night.
A 21)… that smells of pine
A 22)… that's filled with joy and laughter
The mistletoe says 23)… in line
Loneliness is what I've captured
Oh but 24)… … can be a holy night
Lets cozy on up the 25)…
And dim those Christmas lights
*
**They call it 26)… … of giving
I'm here, I'm yours for the taking
They call it 27)… … of giving
I'm here, I'm yours
* (first 4 lines)
Cause I don't wanna be alone 28)…
I'll wear you like a Christmas sweater
Walk proudly to the 29)… tonight
I want 30)… to last 31)…
So 32)… … on this cold December night.
**
The First Noel
The First Noel, the Angels 1)… say
Was to certain 2)… shepherds in fields as they lay
In fields where they lay keeping their 3)…
On a 4)… winter's night that was so deep.
Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel
Born is the 5)… of Israel!
They looked 6)… and saw 7)… …
Shining 8)… … … beyond them far
And to the earth it gave 9)… …
And so it continued both 10)… … ….
Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel
Born is the 11)… of Israel!
Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel
Born is the 12)… of Israel!
Glee Cast – O Christmas
Tree
O Christmas Tree! O Christmas Tree!
Thy leaves are so unchanging; (x2)
Not only 1)… when summer's 2)…,
But also when 'tis 3)… and drear.
O Christmas Tree! O Christmas Tree!
Thy leaves are so unchanging!
O Christmas Tree! O Christmas Tree!
4)… pleasure thou can'st 5)… …; (x2)
How 6)… has the Christmas tree
Afforded me the greatest glee!
O Christmas Tree! O Christmas Tree!
7)… pleasure thou can'st 8)… ….
O Christmas Tree! O Christmas Tree!
Thy 9)… shine so brightly! (x2)
From base to summit, gay and bright,
There's 10)… splendor for the sight.
O Christmas Tree! O Christmas Tree!
Thy 11)… shine so brightly!
O Christmas Tree! O Christmas Tree!
How richly God has decked thee! (x2)
Thou bidst us true and faithful be,
And 12)… … … unchangingly.
O Christmas Tree! O Christmas Tree!
How richly God has decked thee!
Kate Rusby –The Holly and
The Ivy
*The holly and the ivy
When 1)… … … full grown
Of all the trees that are 2)… … …
The holly bares the crown
CHORUS
Oh the rising of 3)… …
The running of the deer
The playing of the merry organ
4)… … in the choir
The holly bares a blossom
5)… … … any flower
And Mary bore sweet 6)… …
To be our 7)… savior
CHORUS
*
CHORUS
The holly bears a berry
8)… … … any blood
And Mary bore sweet 9)… …
To do poor sinners good
White Christmas
I'm 1)… of a white Christmas
Just like the ones I 2)… … …
Where the treetops glisten
and 3)… …
To hear sleigh 4)… in the snow.
I'm 5)… of a white Christmas
With every 6)… … I write
May your days be 7)… and bright
And 8)… all your Christmases 9)… ….
Rudolf, The Red-Nosed
Reindeer
Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer
had a 1)… … ….
And if you ever 2)… …,
you would even 3)… it glows.
All of the other 4)…
used to 5)… and call him 6)….
They never let 7)… …
join in any 8)… games.
Then one foggy 9)… …
Santa 10)… to say:
"Rudolph with 11)… … so bright,
won't you guide 12)… … tonight?"
Then all the 13)… loved him
as they 14)… … with glee,
Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer,
you'll go down in 15)…!
All I Want For Christmas
(Is My Two Front Teeth)
*All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth
My two front teeth, my two front teeth
Gee, if I 1)… only 2)… my two front teeth
Then I could 3)… …, Merry Christmas
**It seems 4)… … since I could say
Sister Susie, sitting on a thistle?
Gosh, oh gee, 5)… … I’d be
If I could only whistle
*
**
Christina Aguilera –
Christmas Time
When I 1)… … every Christmas Eve
I 2)… … sleep
Trying 3)… … that old St. Nick
Leaving presents 4)… … …
And 5)… …. I'd fall asleep laying 6)… … …
Dreaming of a 7)… sugarplums
Dancing in my head
**Oh 8)… …. joy it is at Christmas time
The spirit of giving is in 9)… …., oh
Oh, 10)… … joy it brings to see the ones you love
This year's gonna be 11)… … … because
*There'll be 12)… and Christmas cheer
Peace and goodwill to 13)… …
Everybody is home 14)… …
Everybody is home
Sneaking a kiss 15)… … …
I want 16)… … … so let it snow
Everybody is home 17)… …
Everybody is home, it's Christmas time
Friends 18)… … as we 19)… the tree
This is the 20)… of year to live in harmony, oh
Angels watch over as we put the kids 21)… …
(It's Christmas time)
And when they awake their 22)… …
Make it all complete, oh
This is 23)… … you're with the family
We put aside our differences and let it be, oh
Oh, 24)… … fun it is to give and 25)… …
This time of year, love is 26)… … … oh
*
It's Christmas time
Fa la la la la Fa la la la la la la...
Open 27)… … now
This is the time for us to give
The 28)… needs love now
So live and let live, families all here
The 29)… is good cheer, the sound of carolers
Ringing sweet in my ear, 30)… is all fine
You know why, it's Christmastime, what?
**
*
The Little Match Seller
Christmas story
It was terribly cold and nearly dark on
the last evening of the old year, and the snow was falling fast. In the cold
and the darkness, a poor little girl, with bare head and naked feet, roamed
through the streets. It is true she had on a pair of slippers when she left
home, but they were not of much use. They were very large, so large, indeed,
that they had belonged to her mother, and the poor little creature had lost
them in running across the street to avoid two carriages that were rolling
along at a terrible rate. One of the slippers she could not find, and a boy
seized upon the other and ran away with it, saying that he could use it as a
cradle, when he had children of his own.
So the little girl went on with her
little naked feet, which were quite red and blue with the cold. In an old apron
she carried a number of matches, and had a bundle of them in her hands. No one
had bought anything of her the whole day, nor had anyone given her even a
penny. Shivering with cold and hunger, she crept along; poor little child, she
looked the picture of misery. The snowflakes fell on her long, fair hair, which
hung in curls on her shoulders, but she regarded them not.
Lights were shining from every window,
and there was a savoury smell of roast goose, for it was New-year's eve—yes,
she remembered that. In a corner, between two houses, one of which projected
beyond the other, she sank down and huddled herself together. She had drawn her
little feet under her, but she could not keep off the cold; and she dared not
go home, for she had sold no matches, and could not take home even a penny of
money. Her father would certainly beat her; besides, it was almost as cold at
home as here, for they had only the roof to cover them, through which the wind
howled, although the largest holes had been stopped up with straw and rags. Her
little hands were almost frozen with the cold. Ah! perhaps a burning match
might be some good, if she could draw it from the bundle and strike it against
the wall, just to warm her fingers. She drew one out—“scratch!” how it
sputtered as it burnt! It gave a warm, bright light, like a little candle, as
she held her hand over it. It was really a wonderful light. It seemed to the
little girl that she was sitting by a large iron stove, with polished brass
feet and a brass ornament. How the fire burned! and seemed so beautifully warm
that the child stretched out her feet as if to warm them, when, lo! the flame
of the match went out, the stove vanished, and she had only the remains of the
half-burnt match in her hand.
She rubbed another match on the wall. It
burst into a flame, and where its light fell upon the wall it became as
transparent as a veil, and she could see into the room. The table was covered
with a snowy white table-cloth, on which stood a splendid dinner service, and a
steaming roast goose, stuffed with apples and dried plums. And what was still
more wonderful, the goose jumped down from the dish and waddled across the
floor, with a knife and fork in its breast, to the little girl. Then the match
went out, and there remained nothing but the thick, damp, cold wall before her.
She lighted another match, and then she
found herself sitting under a beautiful Christmas-tree. It was larger and more
beautifully decorated than the one which she had seen through the glass door at
the rich merchant's. Thousands of tapers were burning upon the green branches,
and coloured pictures, like those she had seen in the show-windows, looked down
upon it all. The little one stretched out her hand towards them, and the match
went out.
The Christmas lights rose higher and
higher, till they looked to her like the stars in the sky. Then she saw a star
fall, leaving behind it a bright streak of fire. “Someone is dying,” thought
the little girl, for her old grandmother, the only one who had ever loved her,
and who was now dead, had told her that when a star falls, a soul was going up
to God.
She again rubbed a match on the wall,
and the light shone round her; in the brightness stood her old grandmother,
clear and shining, yet mild and loving in her appearance. “Grandmother,” cried
the little one, “O take me with you; I know you will go away when the match
burns out; you will vanish like the warm stove, the roast goose, and the large,
glorious Christmas-tree.” And she made haste to light the whole bundle of
matches, for she wished to keep her grandmother there. And the matches glowed
with a light that was brighter than the noon-day, and her grandmother had never
appeared so large or so beautiful. She took the little girl in her arms, and
they both flew upwards in brightness and joy far above the earth, where there
was neither cold nor hunger nor pain, for they were with God.
In the dawn of morning there lay the
poor little one, with pale cheeks and smiling mouth, leaning against the wall;
she had been frozen to death on the last evening of the year; and the
New-year's sun rose and shone upon a little corpse! The child still sat, in the
stiffness of death, holding the matches in her hand, one bundle of which was
burnt. “She tried to warm herself,” said some. No one imagined what beautiful
things she had seen, nor into what glory she had entered with her grandmother,
on New-year's day.
Miniature Biography
Hans Christian Anderson
Nationality Danish
Lifespan - 1805 - 1875
Son of a poor shoemaker and washerwoman
Lack of proper education
Career - Author
Famous Work - Collection of Fairy Tales featuring The
Ugly Duckling and The Little Mermaid
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