# Just Christmas Carols? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [December 21, 2014, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-christmas-carols/707842 "2014-12-21T19:57:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dolphinboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dolphinboy/32/330_2.png) [@dolphinboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dolphinboy)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2014, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-christmas-carols/707842/1 "2014-12-21T19:57:48Z")
Are there any other kind of carols than Christmas Carols? For example are there Easter Carols I have never heard of? ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2014, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-christmas-carols/707842/2 "2014-12-21T20:36:04Z")
[Carols to sing while you’re sitting in the pumpkin patch awaiting the arrival of the Great Pumpkin.](http://www.paganlibrary.com/music_poetry/peanuts_pumpkin_carols.php) ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2014, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-christmas-carols/707842/3 "2014-12-21T20:37:11Z")
There are [Easter Carols](http://www.reformedworship.org/article/december-1997/alleluia-christ-risen-easter-carol-service-procession), but you don’t hear much about them. Wikipedia has a good article on the history of carols. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2014, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-christmas-carols/707842/4 "2014-12-21T20:48:07Z")
Some friends of mine go Halloween Caroling. I’m not sure what they sing… ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2014, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-christmas-carols/707842/5 "2014-12-21T20:53:59Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > [Carols to sing while you’re sitting in the pumpkin patch awaiting the arrival of the Great Pumpkin.](http://www.paganlibrary.com/music_poetry/peanuts_pumpkin_carols.php) I had [the card/booklet](http://newadventuresofdesdinova.blogspot.com/2011/10/peanuts-great-pumpkin-carols.html) when I was a kid. ---
**Author:** ![Aquadementia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aquadementia/32/555_2.png) [@Aquadementia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aquadementia)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2014, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-christmas-carols/707842/6 "2014-12-21T22:03:24Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > Some friends of mine go Halloween Caroling. I’m not sure what they sing… That sounds like it would be kind of fun. Spiders in cobwebs and bats in a belfry A witches brew potion that’ll make you unhealthy Dracula vampires lurking downstairs These are a few of my favorite scares ---
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2014, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-christmas-carols/707842/7 "2014-12-21T22:15:45Z")
If you define carol as a song you sing under someone’s window, then yes I’m thinking only Christmas. But if you define carol as a seasonal hymn, then no, there are hymns for all religious seasons and events. Lent, Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Easter, Pentecost, harvest time, All Saints Day … we sing 'em all. Plus many Marian hymns. From a thousand years ago to composed this year. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2014, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-christmas-carols/707842/8 "2014-12-22T03:10:12Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > There are [Easter Carols](http://www.reformedworship.org/article/december-1997/alleluia-christ-risen-easter-carol-service-procession), but you don’t hear much about them. > > Wikipedia has a good article on the history of carols. Well, as has already been said, a carol is a “seasonal hymn” One of the ones in your link, the very last one “Thine is the Glory” is a favorite of mine, and I plan to have it as one of the four hymns included in my funeral service. ---
**Author:** ![UDS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ecae2f/32.png) [@UDS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UDS)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2014, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-christmas-carols/707842/9 "2014-12-22T03:52:15Z")
There are advent carols. ---
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2014, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-christmas-carols/707842/10 "2014-12-22T04:06:18Z")
> [@UDS](#): > > There are advent carols. Yep. We’ve been on those for a month now. Come O Come Emmanuel, People Look East, Lo How A Rose . . . ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2014, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-christmas-carols/707842/11 "2014-12-22T05:40:05Z")
[Kelly Carols](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/458/what-are-the-lyrics-to-walt-kellys-classic-carol-deck-us-all-with-boston-charlie)? (Deck Us All With Boston Charlie) ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2014, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-christmas-carols/707842/12 "2014-12-22T05:50:37Z")
> [@Ulfreida](#): > > If you define carol as a song you sing under someone’s window, then yes I’m thinking only Christmas. **But if you define carol as a seasonal hymn, then no, there are hymns for all religious seasons and events.** Lent, Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Easter, Pentecost, harvest time, All Saints Day … we sing 'em all. Plus many Marian hymns. From a thousand years ago to composed this year. (Bold added.) Hanukkah carols? (I had a little dreidel, I made it out of clay, . . . ) Passover carols? (One kid, One kid, My father bought for two zuzim . . . ) Purim carols? (Oh, once there was a wicked wicked man and Haman was his name, sir. . . . ) [Ramadan carols? Kwanzaa carols?](https://www.smarttix.com/show.aspx?showcode=CHR29) Fourth of July carols? (Oh, I’m a Yankee Doodle Dandy . . . ) [Cinco de mayo](http://www.songsforteaching.com/holiday/cincodemayosongs/) carols? ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2014, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-christmas-carols/707842/13 "2014-12-22T05:54:38Z")
Conan O’Brien had a children’s choir sing St. Patrick’s Day, President’s Day and Daylight Saving Time carols when he hosted Late Night. ---
**Author:** ![Donnerwetter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Donnerwetter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Donnerwetter)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2014, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-christmas-carols/707842/14 "2014-12-22T07:51:03Z")
In some European countries, there are “Martin songs” which are sung by children on [St. Martin’s Day,](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Martin%27s_Day) often in processions. (And although I am terribly bad at memorizing song lyrics, these are, strangely enough, the ones I do remember). There also is a great number of songs for the carnival season (in Germany).