Monday, December 21, 2009
Christmas Carols
New poll in the sidebar: what’s your favorite Christmas Carol.
This doesn’t include hymns, which you might sing while caroling. Of course, the last time I remember caroling, was for French club in high school. We went around my French teachers neighborhood, singing French Christmas carols, to her neighbors. Then we went back to her house and had a party.
Anyway, your favorite Christmas carols?
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December 21st, 2009 at 8:56 am
I’d vote for “Dreidel, Dreidel” but all Hannukah songs are really lame. :(
December 21st, 2009 at 10:14 am
The Klezmatics have a Hannukah album, and I quite like it.
Woody Guthrie’s Happy Joyous Hanukkah
It’s Woody Guthrie Hannukah songs, but it’s still fun.
December 21st, 2009 at 11:55 pm
I love singing Christmas carols in other languages. I remember learning Silent Night in German and Hava Nagila (not a Christmas song, obviously) in middle school.
O Tannenbaum will always remind me of UMCP though. The chapel bells would ring the opening notes of it, since Maryland’s state song is Maryland, My Maryland (sung to, you guessed it, the tune of O Tannenbaum). The funny thing was, I had a friend whose name was Tannenbaum and she was an orthodox jew. Amazing that she managed to do all her architecture homework in 6/7th the time it took me! (Since she couldn’t work on sabbath.) This is, by the way, the beginning of a very long train of memories…
December 22nd, 2009 at 12:26 am
Minuit chretien, c’est l’heure soloneil…. :) The French version of O Holy Night sounds way better. We learned a whole bunch of them in high school French class.
One of my favorite songs to play on the harp was Greensleeves.
And there’s a really cute tape recording somewhere of my siblings and I as very small children, singing O Tannenbaum (there’s a part where I get something German wrong and my sister corrects me and I get annoyed) and We Wish You A Merry Christmas. That was what we did carolling wise – just sang in front of the tree for our parents. ;)