No. 2: Silent Night
The top 2 on the list are both personal for me.
My strongest memory from childhood when it comes to the Christmas Eve service is the lights being doused after communion and the congregation singing silent night by candlelight.
It still gives me chills to think about it.
The current-day tune was written by Franz Gruber with words by Josef Morh, a German priest. Even in America, the German version "Stille Nacht" is sung.
The song was sung simultaneously in English and German by troops during the Christmas truce of 1914, as it was one of the few carols that soldiers on both sides of the front line knew.
Here is version of the song in German as sung by a boys choir.
Anybody want to guess what No. 1 is? You might be surprised!
The list so far:
No. 2: Silent Night
No. 3: O Come all ye Faithful
No. 4: Hark, the Herald Angels Sing
No. 5: Angels we have heard on high
No. 6: Some children see him
No. 7: O come o come emmanuel
No. 8: In the bleak midwinter
No. 9: Lo, how a rose e'er blooming
No. 10: Go tell it on the mountain
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What about " Holy Night"?
Or "It's the most wonderful time of the year"
Or The Christams Song"
A good list, but my list would be a little different.
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