What's your favorite Christmas (or Holiday) song?

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What's your favorite Christmas (or Holiday) song?

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This is mine, always has been, and my favorite of the shows they used to put on TV when I was a kid. I used to watch it with rapt attention every year. It's my all time absolute favorite.
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All IS Calm, as song on Christmas Eve 1914

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One of the most beautiful hymns ever written. Brings tears to my eyes... Like one person who commented on the youtube page, I don't just listen to this at Christmas time... It's beautiful any time of year. Of course anything sung by Johnny Mathis is a treasure ....

Johnny Mathis - O Holy Night!

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this is the first one that came to my mind thinking in villancicos! (if you were part of a chorus being a child here sure you sang it! :lol:). Now I notice that it has a beautiful NOA ritmo! :D

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I also remember barry´s song sang by Pro Música de Rosario each year on Christmas concert, so beautiful and sad...!

from your side of the music I have a Manhattan Transfer Christmas album somewhere: "chestnuts roasting on an open fire" my favourite from it (love the song atmosphere!) :)
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I changed my mind..this one is really my ultimate fave Christmas song..

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i have three (can't decide):

"Ich steh an Deiner Krippen hier"
lyrics: Paul Gerhardt, 1653 / melody: Johann Sebastian Bach, 1736:

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"Maria durch den Dornwald ging"
(traditional, ~ 1600 ):

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"Es ist ein Ros` Entsprungen"
melody: speyer, 1599 / text: Michael Prätorius, 1609:

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"Tochter Zion"
melody: Georg Friedrich Händel, 1747 / text: Friedrich Heinrich Ranke, 1826:

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... okay -- that's four!
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@vero: love the youth choir!
@hester: that ella song is just great!
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My favorite has always been silent night.
Here it is in Tom's way.

Silent Night
`Do you know, I was so angry, Kitty,' Alice went on...`when I saw all the mischief you had been doing, I was very nearly opening the window, and putting you out into the snow! And you'd have deserved it, you
little mischievous darling!
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"I ain`t gettin nuttin for christmas
Mommy and daddy are mad
I ain`t gettin nuttin for christmas
Cause I ain`t been nuttin but bad.."

Lyrics from a song I remember from childhood
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Momma kissing Santa
`Do you know, I was so angry, Kitty,' Alice went on...`when I saw all the mischief you had been doing, I was very nearly opening the window, and putting you out into the snow! And you'd have deserved it, you
little mischievous darling!
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Artguy wrote:"I ain`t gettin nuttin for christmas
Mommy and daddy are mad
I ain`t gettin nuttin for christmas
Cause I ain`t been nuttin but bad.."

Lyrics from a song I remember from childhood
You can listen to this here
http://www.links2love.com/christmas-im- ... istmas.htm

I love this... hah! My daughter sung this with her choral group several years ago. Was really fun on stage!
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I sang it for our annual Christmas play at about age 9....
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On a more contemporary note there is Lennon's Happy Christmas War Is Over....
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And here's Amy Winehouse doing the "mommy kissing santa claus" song... Gawd I love her voice!

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