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Your Favorite Christmas Carol Is? [Spirituality & Religion]

Merry Christmas! This is mine...it is well know in USA I am sure but you may not know it is based on a very old Czech Christmas carol and was translated into English in 1940 by a Czech artist who had fled to the United States from the Nazi occupation of Bohemia-Moravia. That he could have composed something so beautiful in the depth of his sadness with his family was living in Hell on earth at that moment is a testament not just to him but to the power of Christ and beauty of the season. It is The Little Drummer Boy sung as he originally worte it acapella...listen please to how the singers stress the words the boy uses who in sorrow and embarrassment says how he "has no gift to bring ... that's FIT TO GIVE OUR KING...just the sort of thing a child would say.

This is by far the best version in English and hope you enjoy it...my gift to you and again MERRY CHRISTMAS!

[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6j6k9soDvF0]
Atrevido1 · 61-69, M
Mine is mores a hymn. 'O Holy Night'
Elvis Presley version is amazing.
@Atrevido1 Yeh! the SAS that's their motto....That one doesn't work all the time though!...It should be WHO DARES,WINS SOMETIMES.lol.
Atrevido1 · 61-69, M
@Justin49 Yeah for them it's most of the time. Even the best take hits.
@Atrevido1 So true.
I love that one,The little Drummer boy,however my favorite Christmas Carol is,Silent night...It reminds me what Christmas is really about,celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ.
Abrienda · 26-30, F
@Justin49 Yes it is splendid....I like the Little Drummer Boy because it is of wonder and poverty and hope
@Abrienda Yes it is a lovely song.
Lhayezee · 26-30, F
O Come, All Ye Faithful

[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5rMQ6P12WY]

And God rest David Willcocks...the bringer of harmony (and descants) to all our Christmasses <3
@Lhayezee Love this hymnn.
@Lhayezee David Willcocks R.I.P.
Northerner · 70-79, M
Not sure this is a carol . But my favourite Christmas song is
Fairytale of New York , by The Pogues.
Abrienda · 26-30, F
@Northerner Have you now listened to this one?
Northerner · 70-79, M
@Abrienda Yes it is a lovely carol.
Abrienda · 26-30, F
@Northerner Thank you...I love its history.
exexec · 61-69, C
Christina Rossetti's "In the Bleak Midwinter"
Lhayezee · 26-30, F
@exexec The best setting <3

[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3FwwnLvELw]
Abrienda · 26-30, F
@exexec Very nice...Loreen McCullough does a lovely version of it too.
TheWildEcho · 56-60, M
I love Oh holy night
And Mary did you know..
adhane05 · 31-35, M
My favorite Christmas Carol:
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ux1vi30VxPM]
Abrienda · 26-30, F
@adhane05 The favoured carol of the idiot half of this site
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LTKISS · 56-60, M
Oh yes, I love this one too!!!

 
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