I’m not sure if this is going to be a successful thread, but I was listening to Christmas Carols, and thinking about the two lines I love in Christmas Carols for no good reason.
Joy to the World has “He rules the world with truth and grace” which touches me every time I hear it (despite the fact that I’m not a Christan).
Deck the Halls has “Fast away the old year passes”, which I love to sing. It just feels festive.
There is nothing special about either line, really. They’re each just one line of many in their songs, yet I love them, and look forward to them.
Am I wacky, crazy or alone in this??
Oh, and I prefer Adeste Fidelis to Come O Ye Faithful, despite growing up listening to the latter, and only discovering the former in recent years.
I’m not sure if it is the only version but its from the song “Christmas Bells” sung by John Gorka and most widely available on A Winter’s Solstice III from Windahm Hill.
But not a real green dress, that’s wrong!
It’s not Christmassy or anything. I like the line so much I say it to some of my tree-hugging friends when they get too obnoxious.
“I am just a worhtless liar, I am just an imbecile/I will only complicate you, trust in me and fall as well.” I could be wrong about the exact words, but it’s from “Sober” by Tool.
“Nothing lasts forever, even cold November rain,” from “November Rain” by Guns N’ Roses.
it sounds kind of like a line (For hate is strong and mocks the song) from “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day” by Longfellow, which is one of my favorite carols.
Bingo on that one, amarinth. We’ve got it on the Christmas album by Rockapella (those guys who used to give the musical clues on the PBS game show Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego?
One line I like:
“Mom says a hippo will eat me up, but then,
Teacher says a hippo is a vegetarian.”
And I believe “O we like sheep” is from the Passion portion of the Easter half of Handel’s Messiah.
“Should auld acquaintance be forgot
And never brought to mind…”
Auld Lang Syne ALWAYS makes me tear up at New Year’s. I think about all the friends I’ve had and those I’ve lost and those I’ve kept and all the funny little stories we shared…oh, I think I need a tissue now…
Nocturne, we did a really nice arrangement of “Auld Lang Syne” at our spring choir concert last year, and it made me all sad because I was about to graduate…
As for good lines from Christmas songs – I like “And in His name all oppression shall cease” from “O Holy Night,” even though anyone with the vaguest knowledge of Church history will be able to see the unfortunate irony. It’s still a great sentiment…
[channeling a former choir director]
“People!!! Not ‘Oh’, sing ALL!!! ALL we, like sheep, have gone astray!!! Handel did NOT write this about some perverted inbred farmer!!”
[/channeling a former choir director]
