# Your favourite Christmas Carol **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 1, 1999, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-christmas-carol/11788 "1999-12-01T23:32:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 1999, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-christmas-carol/11788/21 "1999-12-02T17:56:00Z")
Traditional: _In The Bleak Mid-Winter_ Modern: One I know neither the name of, nor who sings it . . . help me out here: They said there’d be snow for Chistmas, They said there’d be peace on Earth, Hallelujia, Noel, be it Heaven or Hell, The Christmas we get we deserve . . . * * * Jodi _Fiat Justitia_ ---
**Author:** ![Yankee\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/7ea924/32.png) [@Yankee\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yankee_Blue)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 1999, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-christmas-carol/11788/22 "1999-12-02T19:52:00Z")
Adeste Fidelis - I like this in Latin best sung by a tenor or alto soloist. Do You Hear What I Hear - choral versions God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen - for singing myself. I also really like Manheim Steamroller’s stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Spiritus\_Mundi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c68b51/32.png) [@Spiritus\_Mundi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiritus_Mundi)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 1999, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-christmas-carol/11788/23 "1999-12-02T20:39:00Z")
Good King Wens … Wonc … Wince … _Christmas in New York_ All I want for christmas is Shane McGowan’s teeth. * * * - The best lack all conviction The worst are full of passionate intensity. \* ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 1999, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-christmas-carol/11788/24 "1999-12-02T20:41:00Z")
Some of my favorite music are Christmas carols: _Little Drummer Boy_ is now and forever has been my favorite. _Star of Bethlehem_ _Go Tell it on the Mountain_ So many songs, so few active memory cells remaining… * * * The overwhelming majority of people have more than the average (mean) number of legs. – E. Grebenik ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 1999, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-christmas-carol/11788/25 "1999-12-02T22:13:00Z")
Some very good songs posted here! John Lennon’s “Happy Christmas (War is Over)” is a great christmas song. My favourite to sing is “The twelve days of Christmas”. The words are easy to remember, kids love it because it’s repetitive. When you sing it with kids, it’s fun to act out the presents for each day. “Il est né” is very nice. Nat King Cole does a very good version of “Oh Holy Night.” I’ve never heard Carol of the Bells! Can someone recommend a good version of it? The little Drummer boy: My favourite version is the David Bowie/Bing Crosby one. But I’ll put in another plug for “Good King Wenceslas” because of the words and the message in the song (charity at Christmas time). to wit: \\\
\ **1.** Good King Wenceslas looked out, On the Feast of Stephen, When the snow lay round about, Deep and crisp and even; Brightly shone the moon that night, Tho’ the frost was cruel, When a poor man came in sight, Gath’ring winter fuel.\\\\ \ **2.** “Hither, page, and stand by me, If thou know’st it, telling, Yonder peasant, who is he? Where and what his dwelling?” “Sire, he lives a good league hence, Underneath the mountain; Right against the forest fence, By Saint Agnes’ fountain.”\\\\ \ **3.** “Bring me flesh, and bring me wine, Bring me pine logs hither: Thou and I will see him dine, When we bear them thither.” Page and monarch, forth they went, Forth they went together; Thro’ the rude wind’s wild lament And the bitter weather.\\\\\\ \ **4.** “Sire, the night is darker now, And the wind blows stronger; Fails my heart, I know not how, I can go no longer." Mark my footsteps, good my page; Tread thou in them boldly: Thou shalt find the winter’s rage Freeze thy blood less coldly.”\\\\ \ **5.** In his master’s steps he trod, Where the snow lay dinted; Heat was in the very sod Which the saint had printed. Therefore, Christian men, be sure, Wealth or rank possessing, Ye who now will bless the poor, Shall yourselves find blessing.\\\\ \\\\ ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 1999, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-christmas-carol/11788/26 "1999-12-02T22:18:00Z")
I’m just impressed by Arnold’s graphic…I’m lucky if I can get something to \*\* bold \*\* correctly. ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 1999, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-christmas-carol/11788/27 "1999-12-02T23:21:00Z")
I also like “Joy to the World.” There’s nothing like a church full of people, swept up in the holiday spirit, belting out “Jeremiah was a bullfrog…” Oh come on now. Somebody had to say it! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 1999, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-christmas-carol/11788/28 "1999-12-03T03:01:00Z")
Jodih - I thought for the longest time I was the only person on Earth who knew that one! I got some strange looks from record store clerks… It’s **I Believe in Father Christmas** by Emerson, Lake, & Palmer. It’s on "A Rock’n’Roll Christmas compilation from PolyGram Records 1994. The ID# is 440-060 1171. (It took me **9** years to find it anywhere!) I’ve never quite figured it out, though - When they say “the Christmas you get you deserve”, are they lightening up a little bit? Saying that if we find loneliness & bitterness then, that’s it’s only because that’s what we brought to the season? It seems so different from everything else in the song… * * * Sue from El Paso Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 1999, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-christmas-carol/11788/29 "1999-12-03T03:04:00Z")
Since I did a good deed, I get to list another song… I can’t remember the name of it, but Heart has one about a space alien who comes to earth to hear an old man playing a mandolin… Anyone know where to find that one? * * * Sue from El Paso Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 1999, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-christmas-carol/11788/30 "1999-12-03T14:29:00Z")
Good King Winklehoff looked out On his feets uneven… * * * “East is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does.” – Marx Read “Sundials” in the new issue of Aboriginal Science Fiction. [www.sff.net/people/rothman](http://www.sff.net/people/rothman) ---
**Author:** ![PurpleCrackwhore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc348/32.png) [@PurpleCrackwhore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PurpleCrackwhore)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 1999, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-christmas-carol/11788/31 "1999-12-03T14:42:00Z")
1. Oh Holy Night (and I’m a godless heathen, but this song is too beautiful to put aside) 2. I saw Moma kissing Santa Clause 3. The one from Home Alone. I don’t know the name of it. * * * “Only when he no longer knows what he is doing, does the painter do good things.” --Edgar Degas ---
**Author:** ![G.B.H.Hornswoggler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c67d28/32.png) [@G.B.H.Hornswoggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G.B.H.Hornswoggler)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 1999, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-christmas-carol/11788/32 "1999-12-03T15:11:00Z")
I can’t believe no one’s yet mentioned… “Father Christmas” by the Kinks The best nasty Xmas song ever. * * * …but when you get blue, and you’ve lost all your dreams, there’s nothing like a campfire and a can of beans! ---
**Author:** ![Jois](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ea666f/32.png) [@Jois](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jois)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 1999, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-christmas-carol/11788/33 "1999-12-03T15:24:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Deck us all with Boston Charlie > Walla Walla, Wash, an’ Kalamazoo > Nora’s freezing on the trolley > Swaller dollar cauliflower alla-garoo! I’m not sure about the rest of it but isn’t the “Nora’s freezing on the trolley” part from Pogo? My mother had paperbacks from that comic strip - great illustrations. ---
**Author:** ![Jois](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ea666f/32.png) [@Jois](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jois)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 1999, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-christmas-carol/11788/34 "1999-12-03T15:28:00Z")
But for me: I also really like Manheim Steamroller’s Christmas stuff. I play it until someone else comes in and changes the CD… ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 1999, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-christmas-carol/11788/35 "1999-12-03T15:34:00Z")
Well, if no one else will vote for ya, I will…sing it, Nat: “Chestnuts roasting on an open fire, Jack Frost nipping at your nose…” ---
**Author:** ![Andy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/aeb1de/32.png) [@Andy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 1999, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-christmas-carol/11788/36 "1999-12-03T16:45:00Z")
Sorry, I guess someone’s bound to have added this already, but no time to read all the thread…Mariah Carey…All I want for Christmas is You…awesome. ---
**Author:** ![Falcon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/49beb7/32.png) [@Falcon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Falcon)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 1999, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-christmas-carol/11788/37 "1999-12-03T16:54:00Z")
“Blue Christmas” and “Santa Claus is Back in Town,” by Elvis Presley. “Christmas in Hollis,” Run DMC “I Saw Three Ships,” Sting And for the traditional…“Silent Night.” * * * “Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it.” - George Carlin ---
**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 1999, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-christmas-carol/11788/38 "1999-12-03T17:57:00Z")
MAJOR – You have done your Christmas good deed – thank you very much, I’m off to order the ELP song. 🙂 If I can vote twice, I also love _Merry Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)_, specifically the version by the Eagles. * * * Jodi _Fiat Justitia_ ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 1999, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-christmas-carol/11788/39 "1999-12-04T06:15:00Z")
[quote] I’m not sure about the rest of it but isn’t the “Nora’s freezing on the trolley” part from Pogo? [quote] This classic is all from Pogo. I can’t remember the rest of the words, guess I’ll have to dig out the Pogo compendium and refresh my memory. ---
**Author:** ![Falcon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/49beb7/32.png) [@Falcon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Falcon)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 1999, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-christmas-carol/11788/40 "1999-12-04T06:18:00Z")
Didn’t Cecil print all the lyrics to Boston Charlie in one of the books? ::going to check:: * * * “Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it.” - George Carlin [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-christmas-carol/11788.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-christmas-carol/11788.md?page=3)