Christmas Carols 2024

December 15 PM Carol Gathering at Verity

  1. Winter Wonderland
  2. Jingle Bells
  3. White Christmas
  4. Do You Hear What I Hear
  5. Joy to the World
  6. Away in a Manger
  7. What Child is This
  8. The First Noel
  9. Angels We Have Heard on High
  10. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
  11. Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
  12. O Holy Night
  13. O Come All Ye Faithful
  14. Silent Night

1 Winter Wonderland

Verse 1
Sleigh bells ring, are you listening
In the lane, snow is glistening
A beautiful sight
We’re happy tonight
Walking in a winter wonderland

Verse 2
Gone away is the bluebird
Here to stay is a new bird
He sings a love song
As we go along
Walking in a winter wonderland

Chorus
In the meadow we can build a snowman
Then pretend that he is Parson Brown
He’ll say, Are you married?
We’ll say, No man
But you can do the job
When you’re in town
Later on, we’ll conspire
As we dream by the fire
To face unafraid
The plans that we’ve made
Walking in a winter wonderland

2 Jingle Bells

Dashing through the snow
In a one-horse open sleigh
O’er the fields we go
Laughing all the way
Bells on bobtails ring
Making spirits bright
What fun it is to ride and sing
A sleighing song tonight

Oh! Jingle bells, jingle bells
Jingle all the way
Oh, what fun it is to ride
In a one-horse open sleigh, hey
Jingle bells, jingle bells
Jingle all the way
Oh, what fun it is to ride
In a one-horse open sleigh

A day or two ago
I thought I’d take a ride
And soon, Miss Fanny Bright
Was seated by my side
The horse was lean and lank
Misfortune seemed his lot
He got into a drifted bank
And then we got upsot

A day or two ago
The story I must tell
I went out on the snow
And on my back I fell
A gent was riding by
In a one-horse open sleigh
He laughed as there I sprawling lie
But quickly drove away

Now the ground is white
Go it while you’re young
Take the girls tonight
And sing this sleighing song
Just get a bobtailed bay
Two forty as his speed
Hitch him to an open sleigh
And crack, you’ll take the lead

3 White Christmas

I’m dreaming of a white Christmas
Just like the ones I used to know
Where the tree-tops glisten and children listen
To hear sleigh bells in the snow
I’m dreaming of a white Christmas
With every Christmas card I write
May your days be merry and bright
And may all your Christmases be white

4 Do You Hear What I Hear

Verse 1
Said the night wind to the little lamb,
“Do you see what I see?
Way up in the sky, little lamb,
Do you see what I see?
A star, a star, dancing in the night
With a promise that shines just as bright
With a promise that shines just as bright

Verse 2
Said the little lamb to the shepherd boy,
“Do you hear what I hear?
Ringing through the sky, shepherd boy,
Do you hear what I hear?
A song, a song high above the trees
With a voice as big as the the sea,
With a voice as big as the the sea.”

Verse 3
Said the shepherd boy to people everywhere
Do you know what I know
That the birthday of a King has been declared
Do you know what I know
This Child, this Child, born upon this night
He will bring us goodness and light,
He will bring us goodness and light.”

Verse 4
Magi traveled from afar to see the King
Following that bright star
Bringing gifts to worship Christ the King
Following that bright star
The day has come, the prophets had foretold
Let us bring him silver and gold,
Let us bring him silver and gold.”

5 Joy to the World

Joy to the world; the Lord is come;
Let Earth receive her King;
Let ev’ry Heart prepare him room,
And Heav’n and nature sing.

Joy to the Earth, the Savior reigns,
Let men their Songs employ,
While fields and floods, rocks, hills and plains,
Repeat the sounding joy.

No more let sins and sorrows grow,
Nor thorns infest the ground;
He comes to make his blessings flow
Far as the curse is found.

He rules the world with truth and grace,
And makes the nations prove
The glories of his righteousness,
And wonders of his love.

6 Away in a Manger

Away in a mangerNo crib for a bedThe little Lord JesusLaid down His sweet head
 
The stars in the bright skyLooked down where He layThe little Lord JesusAsleep on the hay
 
The cattle are lowingThe Baby awakesBut little Lord JesusNo crying He makes
 
I love You, Lord JesusLook down from the skyAnd stay by my sideUntil morning is nigh
 
Be near me, Lord JesusI ask You to stayClose by me foreverAnd love me I pray
 
Bless all the dear childrenIn Your tender careAnd fit us for heavenTo live with You there

7 What Child is This

What Child is this, who, laid to rest,
On Mary’s lap is sleeping?
Whom angels greet with anthems sweet,
While shepherds watch are keeping?

Chorus:
This, this is Christ, the King,
Whom shepherds guard and angels sing:
Haste, haste to bring Him laud,
The Babe, the Son of Mary!

Why lies He in such mean estate,
Where ox and ass are feeding?
Good Christian, fear: for sinners here
The silent Word is pleading.[Chorus]

 So bring Him incense, gold, and myrrh,
Come, peasant, king to own Him.
The King of kings salvation brings;
Let loving hearts enthrone Him.[Chorus]

8 The First Noel

The First Noel the angel did say
Was to certain poor shepherds in fields as they lay;
In fields as they lay, keeping their sheep,
On a cold winter’s night that was so deep.

Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel,
Born is the King of Israel.

They looked up and saw a star
Shining in the east beyond them far,
And to the earth it gave great light,
And so it continued both day and night.

Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel,
Born is the King of Israel.

Then let us all with one accord
Sing praises to our heavenly Lord
That hath made Heaven and earth of nought
And with his blood mankind has bought.

Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel,
Born is the King of Israel.

9 Angels We Have Heard on High

Angels we have heard on high,
Sweetly singing o’er the plains,
And the mountains in reply
Echoing their joyous strains.

Refrain:
Gloria in excelsis Deo.
Gloria in excelsis Deo.

Shepherds, why this jubilee?
Why your joyous strains prolong?
What the gladsome tidings be
Which inspire your heavn’ly song? [Refrain]

Come to Bethlehem and see
Him whose birth the angels sing.
Come, adore on bended knee
Christ the Lord, the newborn King. [Refrain]

10 God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen

VERSE 1
God rest ye merry, gentlemen, Let nothing you dismay,
Remember Christ our Saviour, was born on Christmas day
To save us all from Satan’s pow’r
When we were gone astray
O tidings of comfort and joy, comfort and joy
O tidings of comfort and joy.

From God our heavenly Father a blessed angel came
And unto certain shepherds, brought tidings of the same
How that in Bethlehem was born
the Son of God by name
O tidings of comfort and joy, comfort and joy,
O tidings of comfort and joy.

The shepherds at those tidings
rejoiced much in mind,
and left their flocks afeeding,
in tempest, storm, and wind,
and went to Bethlehem straightway,
this blessed Babe to find. 

But when to Bethlehem they came, whereat this infant lay
They found him in a manger, where oxen feed on hay
His mother Mary kneeling,
unto the Lord did pray
O tidings of comfort and joy, comfort and joy
O tidings of comfort and joy.

Now to the Lord sing praises
All you within this place
And with true love and brotherhood
Each other now embrace
This holy tide of Christmas
All other doth deface
O tidings of comfort and joy
Comfort and joy
O tidings of comfort and joy

11. Hark! The Herald Angels Sing

Hark! the herald angels sing,
“Glory to the newborn King:
peace on earth, and mercy mild,
God and sinners reconciled!”
Joyful, all ye nations, rise,
join the triumph of the skies;
with th’angelic hosts proclaim,
“Christ is born in Bethlehem!”

Refrain:
Hark! the herald angels sing,
“Glory to the newborn King”

Christ, by highest heaven adored,
Christ, the everlasting Lord,
late in time behold him come,
offspring of the Virgin’s womb:
veiled in flesh the Godhead see;
hail th’incarnate Deity,
pleased with us in flesh to dwell,
Jesus, our Immanuel. [Refrain]

 Hail the heaven-born Prince of Peace!
Hail the Sun of Righteousness!
Light and life to all he brings,
risen with healing in his wings.
Mild he lays his glory by,
born that we no more may die,
born to raise us from the earth,
born to give us second birth. [Refrain]

12 O HOLY NIGHT

O Holy night, the stars are brightly shiningIt is the night of our dear Savior’s birthLong lay the world in sin and error, pining‘Til He appeared, and the soul felt its worthA thrill of hope, the weary world rejoicesFor yonder breaks a new and glorious morn
Fall on your kneesO hear the angel voicesO night divineO night when Christ was bornO night divineO night, O night divine
Chains shall He break, for the slave is our brotherAnd in His name all oppression shall ceaseSweet hymns of joy in grateful chorus raise weLet all within us praise His holy name
Christ is the LordLet ever, ever praise TheeNoel, NoelO night, O night divineNoel, NoelO night, O night divineNoel, NoelO night, O night divine

13 O COME ALL YE FAITHFUL

Verse 1
O come all ye faithful, joyful and triumphant
O come ye, O come ye to Bethlehem
Come and behold Him, Born the King of angels

Chorus
O come let us adore Him,
O come let us adore Him
O come let us adore Him
Christ the Lord

Verse 2
Sing, choirs of angels
Sing in exultation
Oh, come ye, oh come ye to Bethlehem
Come and behold Him
Born the King of Angels

Verse 3
Yea Lord we greet Thee, born this happy morning
Jesus to Thee be the glory giv’n
Word of the Father, Now in flesh appearing

14  SILENT NIGHT

Verse 1
Silent night, Holy night
All is calm, all is bright
Round yon virgin, mother and child
Holy infant, so tender and mild
Sleep in heavenly peace,
Sleep in heavenly peace.

Verse 2
Silent night, Holy night
Son of God, love’s pure light
Radiant beams from thy holy face
With the dawn of redeeming grace,
Jesus, Lord at thy birth
Jesus, Lord at thy birth.

Verse 3
Silent night, Holy night
Shepherds quake, at the sight
Glories stream from heaven above
Heavenly, hosts sing Hallelujah.
Christ the Saviour is born,
Christ the Saviour is born