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Christmas Lyrics
Christmas Songs, Carols and Hymns!!
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Christmas Lyrics On This Page:
I Am Christmas
I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day
I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
I Saw Three Ships
I'll Be Home For Christmas
I'll Tell You A Tale of Olden Time
In Excelsis Gloria
In the Bleak Mid-winter
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I Am Christmas
- Attributed to James Ryman
Now have good day, now have good day!
I am Christmas, and now I go by way.
Here have I dwelled with more or lass
From Halowtide till Candelmas,
And now must I from you hens pass;
Now have good day.
I take my leve of king and knight,
And erl, baron, and lady bright;
To wilderness I must me dight;
Now have good day!
And at the good lord of this hall
I take my leave, and of gestes all;
Me think I here Lent doth call;
Now have good day!
And at every worthy officere,
Marshall, panter, and butlere
I take my leve as for this yere;
Now have good day!
Another yere I trust I shall
Make merry in this hall,
If rest and peace in England fall;
Now have good day!
But oftentimes I have herd say
That he is loth to part away
That often biddeth 'Have good day!";
Now have good day!
Now fare ye well, all in fere,
Now fare ye well for all this yere;
Yet for my sake make ye good chere;
Now have good day!
I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, score - John Baptiste Calkin
I heard the bells on Christmas Day,
Their old familiar carols play;
And wild and sweet the words repeat,
Of Peace On Earth, Good Will To Men,
I thought as now this day had come,
The belfries of all Christendom,
Had rung so long th’ unbroken song,
Of Peace on Earth, Good Will To Men.
And in despair, I bowed by head:
"There is no Peace on Earth," I said.
"For hate is strong and mocks the song,
Of Peace On Earth, Good Will To Men."
Then pealed the bells more loud and deep:
"God is not dead, nor doth He sleep,
The wrong shall fail, the right prevail,
With Peace On Earth, Good Will To Men."
Till ringing, singing on its way,
The world revolved from night to day,
A voice, a chime, a chant sublime,
Of Peace On Earth, Good Will To Men!
I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
- T. Connor
I saw Mommy kissing Santa Claus
Underneath the mistletoe last night.
She didn't see me creep
down the stairs to have a peep;
She thought that I was tucked
up in my bedroom fast asleep.
Then, I saw Mommy tickle Santa Claus
Underneath his beard so snowy white;
Oh, what a laugh it would have been
If Daddy had only seen
Mommy kissing Santa Claus last night.
I Saw Three Ships
- English Traditional
I saw three ships come sailing in,
On Christmas Day, on Christmas Day;
I saw three ships come sailing in,
On Christmas Day in the morning.
And what was in those ships all three?
Our Saviour, Christ, and His Lady,
Pray, whither sailed those ships all three?
Oh, they sailed into Bethlehem,
And all the bells on earth shall ring,
And all the angels in heaven shall sing,
And all the souls on earth shall sing,
Then let us all rejoice and sing.
I'll Be Home For Christmas
- Kim Gannon, Walter Kent
I'll be home for Christmas
You can count on me
Please have snow and mistletoe
and presents on the tree
Christmas Eve will find me
Where the love light gleams
I'll be home for Christmas
If only in my dreams
I'll Tell You A Tale of Olden Time
- Rev. Gerard Moultrie, score - Rev. B. W. J. Trevaldwyn
I’ll tell you a tale of the olden time,
While the Yule log burns bright, and the Church bells chime.
Gloria in excelsis Deo.
There sate a fair Princess in joy on her throne,
And there in her arms her Infant was shown:
Gloria in excelsis,
Gloria in excelsis Deo.
The beasts of the meadows bowed down their head
All under the moonlight so softly shed.
Gloria in excelsis Deo.
They worship’d the king of Creation there
In the arms of the Mother so passing fair.
Gloria in excelsis.
Gloria in excelsis Deo.
O who are these masters of ancient mould?
O these are the shepherds the lord of the fold;
Gloria in excelsis Deo.
They have heard from the sky of the birth of their King,
They have heard all the sky with the harmony ring.
Gloria in excelsis,
Gloria in excelsis Deo.
The Kings of the East in number three,
All worship the Monarch of high degree;
Gloria in excelsis Deo.
Their tribute they offer, their heads they bow,
And clearer and clearer is echoing now,
Gloria in excelsis,
Gloria in excelsis Deo.
For all the zenith if blazing with light,
And musical voices enrapture the night;
Gloria in excelsis Deo.
O this is the carol of peace and goodwill
From the voices celestial, the zenith that fill;
Gloria in excelsis,
Gloria in excelsis Deo.
In Excelsis Gloria
- Traditional, 15th Century
When Christ was born of Mary free,
In Bethlehem in that fair city,
Angels sung e'er with mirth and glee,
In excelsis gloria,
In excelsis gloria,
In excelsis gloria,
In excelsis gloria.
Herdmen beheld these angels bright-
To them appeared with great light,
And said, "God's son is born this night."
In excelsis gloria,
In excelsis gloria,
In excelsis gloria,
In excelsis gloria.
This King is come to save His kind,
In the Scripture as we find;
Therefore this song we have in mind:
In excelsis gloria,
In excelsis gloria,
In excelsis gloria,
In excelsis gloria.
Then, dear Lord, for Thy great grace,
Grant us the bliss to see Thy face,
Where we may sing to Thy solace:
In excelsis gloria,
In excelsis gloria,
In excelsis gloria,
In excelsis gloria.
In the Bleak Mid-winter
- Christina Georgina Rossetti, score - Gustav Theodore Holst
Gustav Theodore HolstIn the bleak mid-winter
Frosty wind made moan.
Earth stood hard as iron,
Water like a stone;
Snow had fallen, snow on snow,
In the bleak mid-winter
Long ago.
Our God, heaven cannot hold Him,
Nor earth sustain;
Heaven and earth shall flee away
When he comes to reign:
In the bleak mid-winter
A stable-place sufficed
The Lord God Almighty
Jesus Christ.
Angels and Archangels
May have gathered there,
Cherubim and Seraphim
Thronged the air;
But His Mother only,
In Her maiden bliss,
Worshipped the Beloved
With a kiss.
What can I give Him,
Poor as I am?
If I were a shepherd, I would bring a lamb;
If I were a wise man,
I would do my part;
Yet what I can I give him-
Give my heart.
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