# "O Holy Night"--lyrics in German **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 6, 2004, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/o-holy-night-lyrics-in-german/278419 "2004-12-06T21:43:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2004, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/o-holy-night-lyrics-in-german/278419/1 "2004-12-06T21:43:20Z")
I tried to find this on the web–but two sites Ask Jeeves led me to, appeared “blank” in the Ask Jeeves frame while the status bar on the screen said “Done.” I had a French teacher in high school who sang the lyrics in French, and I have them. I’d like to find them in German too. Thanks very much. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![mkl12](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@mkl12](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mkl12)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2004, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/o-holy-night-lyrics-in-german/278419/2 "2004-12-06T22:01:34Z")
I’ve never heard this song but I found one google hit that seems to be right. Here it is: [http://forum.fuerstenwalde.de/index.php3?eintrag=220](http://forum.fuerstenwalde.de/index.php3?eintrag=220) ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2004, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/o-holy-night-lyrics-in-german/278419/3 "2004-12-06T22:05:08Z")
> [@mkl12](#): > > I’ve never heard this song but I found one google hit that seems to be right. Here it is: > [http://forum.fuerstenwalde.de/index.php3?eintrag=220](http://forum.fuerstenwalde.de/index.php3?eintrag=220) Danke! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![kellner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c2a13f/32.png) [@kellner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kellner)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2004, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/o-holy-night-lyrics-in-german/278419/4 "2004-12-06T22:09:23Z")
I have an alternative version: [http://ingeb.org/spiritua/oholynid.html](http://ingeb.org/spiritua/oholynid.html) ---
**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2004, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/o-holy-night-lyrics-in-german/278419/5 "2004-12-06T22:37:21Z")
I’ve been searching, and from the miniscule bit of German I’ve managed to absorb, think I may have had some success. [O JESULEIN ZART?](http://www.lyricsplayground.com/alpha/songs/xmas/ojesuleinzart.shtml) from [this](http://www.lyricsplayground.com/alpha/xmas.html) site. I also found a German translation of [“Lo How a Rose Er Blooming”](http://german.about.com/library/blrosent.htm). I love that song, it’s hauntingly simple and I love to sing it or listen to it if it’s performed well. Is [this story](http://www.findthepower.com/ChristmasPagesTheStoryOfOHolyNight.htm) about the carol true? This [page](http://www.ylw.mmtr.or.jp/~johnkoji/hymn/xmas/O_holy.html) has a midi of the song, and a Japanese translation. If the song I presented is the incorrect one, you might try this [site](http://songtexte.volanzo.de/), I didn’t want to download the language file, and can’t read German well enough to navigate it with certainty. Hope I’ve helped a bit at least. ---
**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2004, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/o-holy-night-lyrics-in-german/278419/6 "2004-12-06T22:39:39Z")
:smack: I should have realized that the song I linked wasn’t correct, I saw the lyrics for Silent Night on one site. _blush_ Ah well… ---
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2004, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/o-holy-night-lyrics-in-german/278419/7 "2004-12-06T22:52:20Z")
> [@mkl12](#): > > I’ve never heard this song but I found one google hit that seems to be right. Here it is: > [http://forum.fuerstenwalde.de/index.php3?eintrag=220](http://forum.fuerstenwalde.de/index.php3?eintrag=220) Go listen to it. There’s a particular line of harmony…“Fall on your knees, Hear the angels’ voices”…well, if it doesn’t give you chills, I don’t know what will. IMO, one of the best Christmas songs of them all, along with some arrangements of “Oh Come, Oh Come Emanuel” and “Gabriel’s Message” (NOT the Sting vsn.). ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/o-holy-night-lyrics-in-german/278419/8 "2004-12-07T09:24:16Z")
> [@kellner](#): > > I have an alternative version: > > [O Heil'ge Nacht / O Holy Night / Minuit chrétiens / Cantique de Noel / O Helga Natt / Ó helga nótt gospel christian songs free mp3 midi download](http://ingeb.org/spiritua/oholynid.html) Thanks, Kellner. 🙂 The second time I clicked on the link mkl12 proffered, I got a message board in German with no sign of “O Holy Night” in any language. ---
**Author:** ![mkl12](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@mkl12](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mkl12)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/o-holy-night-lyrics-in-german/278419/9 "2004-12-07T12:45:11Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > The second time I clicked on the link mkl12 proffered, I got a message board in German with no sign of “O Holy Night” in any language. Wow, that site uses crappy message board software. The post with the lyrics has moved back one page, to [http://forum.fuerstenwalde.de/index.php3?eintrag=225](http://forum.fuerstenwalde.de/index.php3?eintrag=225) ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/o-holy-night-lyrics-in-german/278419/10 "2004-12-07T19:12:35Z")
> [@mkl12](#): > > Wow, that site uses crappy message board software. The post with the lyrics has moved back one page, to > [http://forum.fuerstenwalde.de/index.php3?eintrag=225](http://forum.fuerstenwalde.de/index.php3?eintrag=225) Thanks, mkl; I found it. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![SmackFu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/53a042/32.png) [@SmackFu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmackFu)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/o-holy-night-lyrics-in-german/278419/11 "2004-12-07T20:02:21Z")
Funny, I thought it would be easy to look up since I knew that “holy night” was “heilige nacht”. Too bad that same phrase is used in “Silent Night”, which is a way more popular German carol. ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/o-holy-night-lyrics-in-german/278419/12 "2004-12-07T23:51:46Z")
> [@SmackFu](#): > > Funny, I thought it would be easy to look up since I knew that “holy night” was “heilige nacht”. Too bad that same phrase is used in “Silent Night”, which is a way more popular German carol. Yeah, but how common is the German for “The stars are brightly shining.”?😃 ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2004, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/o-holy-night-lyrics-in-german/278419/13 "2004-12-08T08:26:41Z")
> [@iampunha](#): > > Yeah, but how common is the German for “The stars are brightly shining.”?😃 Well, now I have _two_ sets of lyrics for “O Holy Night” in German; I guess where prosody is concerned, translators have considerable latitude. (I went to a [website](http://silentnight.web.za/translate/) which translates “Silent Night” into more than 100 languages, including Swahili, Japanese, and Cherokee! :eek: 🙂 and the phrasing is different in various languages, evident to me although I’m not a professional linguist.)