Comments on: Christmas Carols

By: MWT

MWT — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 05:26:15 +0000

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. ;)

By: Anne C.

Anne C. — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 04:55:41 +0000

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…

By: Michelle

Michelle — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:14:57 +0000

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.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 13:56:15 +0000

I’d vote for “Dreidel, Dreidel” but all Hannukah songs are really lame. :(