1 Breath of heaven(mary's song) by Amy Grant- Makes me cry.
2 River by Sarah mclachlan. The whole Wintersong cd is great.
3 The Christmas song by Nat King Cole
4 Ave Maria by Andrea Bocelli
Just a few favs. I love Christmas music!
Love that song, I love to sign to it! So precious!!
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'Carol of the Bells' is my absolute favorite. I like the Eastern European quality that speaks of order and chaos at the same time. Aside from being a great Christmas song, I think it is simply a great piece of music which I find every bit as stirring as Tchaicovsky's 1812 Overture and Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries.
Maybe not so much a song about Christmas so much as a song normally sung at Christmas, but I have always really liked Good King Wenceslas.
John Lennon's Happy Christmas (War is Over).
The Chipmunk's Christmas Song (Christmas Don't Be Late), not because I really like the song so much as because the part 'all I want's a hula hoop' cracked my dad up so much that he would sing that line, over and over, in a funny (though non-chipmunk like) voice. He'd also repeatedly 'play' Jingle Bells on the car horn when we would go to visit family for Christmas. His childhood was pretty rough, but he always became a big kid at Christmas.
Lately, I've taken to making fun of one line from 'The Christmas Song'. I like to re-interpret the line about 'a turkey and some mistletoe' to be:
And everybody knows, a missile and some turkey toes...
Yeah, I know, but that's just how my mind works. Eventually, I may just re-work the whole darn song, just for grins.
I too have a bad habit of changing words to songs, like Police got my car, Police got my car, Police got my car so now I'm walking
I only one who does this can understand it the sickness lol
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Hello. For me, a lot depends on who's doing it. I heard a couple of guys playing The First Noel on classical guitars one time and that might be the most beautiful thing that I've ever heard in my life. They weren't anyone famous, just a couple of guys out on the street corner in the 'artsy' neighborhood here. It brought tears to my eyes. Simple beauty in spots, swelling to a rolling majesty, it was beautiful. I like the way that Johnny Mathis did O Holy Night. Who could NOT like Burl Ives singing Holly, Jolly Christmas. I love the horns in Feliz Navidad by Jose Feliciano. And yes, I will confess to liking that Christmas song about Snoopy and the Red Baron. There are a bunch of truly wonderful classical pieces, like Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring By Bach, although that one's been a bit overworked at weddings. I could go on and on, but I will spare you.
Carol of the Bells is a good one.
Also, Jingle Bells (all the verses)
Quote:
Jingle Bells
Dashing through the snow, in a one-horse open sleigh,
Over the fields we go, laughing all the way.
Bells on bob-tails ring, making spirits bright,
What fun it is to ride and sing a sleighing song tonight.
Chorus
Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way!
O what fun it is to ride in a one-horse open sleigh.
Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way!
O 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! (Chorus)
Now the ground is white, you should go it while you're young
So take the girls tonight, and sing this sleighing song;
Just get a bob-tailed nag, two-forty for his speed
Hitch him to an open sleigh and crack! you'll take the lead (Chorus)
I also really like all 5 verses of "We Three Kings" ... for some reason, no one ever sings more than the first verse.
Quote:
We Three Kings
We three kings of Orient are
Bearing gifts we traverse afar.
Field and fountain, moor and mountain,
Following yonder star.
Chorus O star of wonder, star of night, Star with royal beauty bright, Westward leading, still proceeding, Guide us to thy perfect Light.
Born a king on Bethlehem's plain,
Gold I bring to crown Him again,
King forever, ceasing never
Over us all to reign.
(Chorus)
Frankincense to offer have I.
Incense owns a Deity nigh.
Prayer and praising all men raising,
Worship Him, God on high.
(Chorus)
Myrrh is mine: Its bitter perfume
Breaths a life of gathering gloom.
Sorrowing, sighing, bleeding dying,
Sealed in the stone-cold tomb.
(Chorus)
Glorious now behold Him arise,
King and God and Sacrifice.
Alleluia, alleluia!
Sounds through the earth and skies. (Chorus)
Also "The Christmas Song" (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire) and "Let it Snow" and ... and... well, probably nearly all the songs there are. I'd better stop now.
1. The Christmas Song - Nat King Cole
2. Anything from Peanuts Christmas
3. Do they know its Christmas-BandAid
4. On a Snowy Christmas Night- Elvis
5. Peace on Earth/Drummer boy -Bing and Bowie
6. Tennessee Christmas - Amy Grant
7. Winter Wonderland & Sleighride- Johnny Mathis
8. Blue Christmas- Sheryl Crow
9. Nutcracker Suite- Brian Setzer
10. 12 days of Christmas- Bob & Doug McKenzie
We're all car buffs so check out Setzers "Santas got a Hot Rod"
I have a cd of a bunch of the baddest guitarists doing Christmas songs.
My favorite is Joe Satriani's rendition of "Silent Night"
He goes off with a fretboard shredding fury, but keeps the theme of the song throughout!
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For me, a lot depends on who's doing it. I heard a couple of guys playing The First Noel on classical guitars one time and that might be the most beautiful thing that I've ever heard in my life. They weren't anyone famous, just a couple of guys out on the street corner in the 'artsy' neighborhood here. It brought tears to my eyes. Simple beauty in spots, swelling to a rolling majesty, it was beautiful. I like the way that Johnny Mathis did O Holy Night. Who could NOT like Burl Ives singing Holly, Jolly Christmas. 
I love the horns in Feliz Navidad by Jose Feliciano. And yes, I will confess to liking that Christmas song about Snoopy and the Red Baron.
