List of Christmas carols
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A Christmas carol is a carol whose lyrics are on the theme of Christmas, or the winter season in general.
Some of the more popular traditional Christmas carols include:
- "Adeste Fideles" ("O Come All Ye Faithful")
- "Angels From the Realms of Glory"
- "Angels We Have Heard On High"
- "Away in a Manger"
- "Boar's Head Carol"
- "Bring A Torch, Jeanette, Isabella"
- "Carol of the Bells"
- "The Cherry-Tree Carol"
- "Christ Is Born In Bethlehem"
- "Coventry Carol"
- "Ding Dong Merrily on High"
- "Do You Hear What I Hear?"
- "The First Nowell"
- "Gabriel's Message"
- "Gesu Bambino"
- "Go Tell it on The Mountain"
- "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen"
- "Good King Wenceslas"
- "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing"
- "Here We Come a-Wassailling"
- "The Holly and the Ivy"
- "Huron Carol"
- "I Saw Three Ships"
- "I Wonder As I Wander"
- "In Dulci Jubilo" ("Good Christian Men, Rejoice")
- "In the Bleak Midwinter"
- "It Came Upon A Midnight Clear"
- "Joy to the World"
- "Mary Did You Know?"
- "Masters in the Hall"
- "O Come, O Come, Emmanuel" ("Veni, Veni, Emmanuel")(actually an Advent hymn)
- "O Holy Night"
- "O Little Town of Bethlehem"
- "O Tannenbaum"
- "Once In Royal David's City"
- "Personent Hodie"
- "Rise Up, Shepherd, and Follow"
- "Silent Night" (written by Franz Xaver Gruber)
- "Silver and Gold"
- "Still, Still, Still"
- "The Twelve Days of Christmas"
- "The Wassail Song"
- "We Wish You A Merry Christmas"
- "We Three Kings Of Orient Are"
- "Wexford Carol"
- "What Child Is This?"
- "While Shepherds Watched their Flocks by Night"
Some other popular Christmas songs that are not carols include:
- "A Holly Jolly Christmas"
- "Beginning to Look a lot like Chistmas"
- "Blue Christmas"
- "The Christmas Song"
- "Christmas Time: Don't Let The Bells End" - The Darkness
- "Deck the Halls"
- "Do They Know It's Christmas?"
- "Feliz Navidad"
- "Frosty the Snowman"
- "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas"
- "Jingle Bell Rock"
- "Jingle Bells"
- "Holly Jolly Christmas"
- "I Believe In Father Christmas" - Emerson Lake and Palmer
- "I'll Be Home for Christmas"
- "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas"
- "Let It Snow"
- "Let There Be Peace on Earth"
- "Little Drummer Boy"
- "Merry Xmas Everybody" - Slade
- "Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree"
- "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer"
- "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town"
- "Silver Bells"
- "Sleigh Ride"
- "There's No Place Like Home for the Holidays"
- "Toyland"
- "Up on the Housetop"
- "White Christmas"
- "Winter Wonderland"
- "Wonderful Christmas Time" - Paul McCartney