The Oxford Book of Carols

PART 1: COMPOSED CAROLS

THE MIDDLE AGES

• Verbum Supernum Prodiens/High Word of God Eternal Light
• Veni Redemptor Gencium/Come Thou Redeemer of the Earth
• Christe Redemptor Omnium/O Christ the Father's Only Son
• A Solis Ortus Cardine/From Lands that See the Sun Arise
• Letabundus/Come Rejoicing
• Festa Dies Agitur
• Dieus Soit En Cheste Maison
• Angelus ad Virginem/Gabriel fram Heven King
• Procedenti Puero-Eya! Noveus Annus Est/Verbum Caro Factum Est-Eya!
• Ad Cantus Leticie
• Laudemus Cum Armonia
• Verbum Caro Factum Est
• Dies Est Leticie
• Verbum Car Factum Est: In Hoc Anni Circulo
• Verbum Patris Umanatur
• Veni Veni Emanuel/O Come O Come Emmanuel
• Qui Creavit Celum/He Who Made the Earth so Fair (Song of the Nuns of Chester)
• Dies Est Laeticiae/Earth With Joy This Day Doth Ring
• Corde Natus Ex Parentis/Of the Father's Heart Begotten
• Personent hodie/On this day earth shall ring ; Epiphany
• Puer nobis nascitur/Unto us is born a Son
• Omnis mundus iucundetur

ENGLISH CAROLS 1400-1700

• Lullay, lullay: Als I lay on Yoolis Night
• Lullay Lullow I Saw a Swete Semly Syght
• Nova Nova; Blessed Virgin Mary
• Nowell Tydynges Trew Ther Be Cum New
• Hayl Mary Ful of Grace; Blessed Virgin Mary
• Ther Is No Rose of Swych Vertu
• Alleluya Pro Virgine Maria
• Alleluya A Nywe Werk Is Come on Honde
• Make We Joye Nowe in This Fest
• What Tydynges Bryngest Thou, Messangere
• Nowel Owt of your Slepe Aryse
• Nowel Syng We Bothe Al and Som
• Synge We To This Mery Cumpane
• Nowell Dieus Wous Garde Byewsser
• Nowell The Borys Hede (The Exeter Boar's Head Carol)
• Marvele Noght, Josep
• Thys Endere Nyghth I Saw a Syghth
• Lully Lulla Thow Littel Tyne Child (The Coventry Carol)
• As I Out Rode This Enderes Night (The Coventry Shepherds' Carol)
• We happy hirdes men
• Come Love We God!
• Sweet Was the Song the Virgine Soong
• Thus Angels Sun (The Angels' Song)
• While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks By Night
• O remember Adam's fall/Remember, O thou man

EUROPEAN CAROLS 1550-1700

• Riu, riu, chiu
• Verbum carol factum est: Y la Virgen le dezia
• El la don, don Verges Maria
• Gaudete!
• Psallite Unigenito
• En! Natus Est Emanuel - Lo! Born is our Emmanuel
• Puer Natus In Bethlehem - A Boy is Born in Bethlehem - Ein Kind
• Resonet in Laudibus - Let the Voice of Praise Resound - Joseph
• Magnum Nomen Domini Emanuel - O Proclaim the Mighty Name Emmanuel!
• Quem Pastores Laudavere - Shepherds Sang Their Praises O'er Him
• Nun Komm der Heiden Heiland - Saviour of the Gentiles, Come!
• In Dulci Jubilo - Good Christian Men Rejoice!
• Vom Himmel Hoch, da Komm'Ich Her - From Highest Heaven I come to
• Christum Wir Sollen Loben Schon - From Lands That See the Sun Arise
• Als Ich Bei Meinen Schafen Wacht - While By My Sheep I Watched At
• Es Steht Ein'Lind im Himmelreich - There Stood in Heaven a linden tree
• Vom Himmel Hoch, o Engel, Kommt! - Come Angels Come from Heaven
• Ein Kindlein in der Wiegen Entsprungen - He Smiles Within His Cradle
• Es Ist Ein Roess Entsprungen - Of Jesse's Line Descended
• O Jesulein Suss! O Jesulein Mild! - O Little One Sweet! O Little One Mild
• Wachet Auf - Wake, O Wake
• Wie Schön leuchtet der Morgenstern - How Fair the Morning Star Doth Shine
• Adeste, fideles/O come, all ye faithful
• Adeste, fideles/O come, all ye faithful
• Christians, Awake!
• Lo! He Comes, With Clouds Descending - Lo! He Come, an Infant stranger
• Lift Up Your Heads in Joyful Hope
• Hark! Hear you not a Chearful Noise
• Hark! Hark! What News the Angels Bring
• Joy to the World!
• Come let us All With Heart and Voice
• As Shepherds in Jewry
• Shepherds Rejoice!
• A Virgin Unspotted
• The Lord Descended from Above
• Ye Nations All, on You I Call
• Glory to God on High
• Hail the Blest Morn!
• Hark Hark Glad Tidings Charm Our Ears
• Stille Nacht! Heilige Nacht! - Silent Night! Holy Night!
• Arise and Hail the Sacred Day!
• Rejoice, ye tenants of the earth
• Rouse, rouse from your slumbers!
• Awake, and join the cheeful choir
• Sound, sound your instruments of joy! ( Seraphic Minstrels)
• Hark! the Herald Angels Sing
• Once in Royal David's City
• The Shepherds' Farewell to the Holy Family
• Angels from the Realms of Glory
• Good King Wenceslas Looked Out
• What Child Is This
• Three Kings of Orient
• Away in a Manger
• O Little Town of Bethlehem
• Drei Kon'ge Wandern Aus Morgenland - Three Kings from Persian Lands
• It Came Upon the Midnight Cleareht Ein'Lind im Himmelreich - There Stood in Heaven a linden tree
• Vom Himmel Hoch, o Engel, Kommt! - Come Angels Come from Heaven
• Ein Kindlein in der Wiegen Entsprungen - He Smiles Within His Cradle
• Es Ist Ein Roess Entsprungen - Of Jesse's Line Descended
• O Jesulein Suss! O Jesulein Mild! - O Little One Sweet! O Little One Mild
• Wachet Auf - Wake, O Wake
• Wie Schön leuchtet der Morgenstern - How Fair the Morning Star Doth Shine
• Adeste, fideles/O come, all ye faithful
• Adeste, fideles/O come, all ye faithful
• Christians, Awake!
• Lo! He Comes, With Clouds Descending - Lo! He Come, an Infant stranger
• Lift Up Your Heads in Joyful Hope
• Hark! Hear you not a Chearful Noise
• Hark! Hark! What News the Angels Bring
• Joy to the World!
• Come let us All With Heart and Voice
• As Shepherds in Jewry
• Shepherds Rejoice!
• A Virgin Unspotted
• The Lord Descended from Above
• Ye Nations All, on You I Call
• Glory to God on High
• Hail the Blest Morn!
• Hark Hark Glad Tidings Charm Our Ears
• Stille Nacht! Heilige Nacht! - Silent Night! Holy Night!
• Arise and Hail the Sacred Day!
• Rejoice, ye tenants of the earth
• Rouse, rouse from your slumbers!
• Awake, and join the cheeful choir
• Sound, sound your instruments of joy! ( Seraphic Minstrels)
• Hark! the Herald Angels Sing
• Once in Royal David's City
• The Shepherds' Farewell to the Holy Family
• Angels from the Realms of Glory
• Good King Wenceslas Looked Out
• What Child Is This
• Three Kings of Orient
• Away in a Manger
• O Little Town of Bethlehem
• Drei Kon'ge Wandern Aus Morgenland - Three Kings from Persian Lands
• It Came Upon the Midnight Clear

THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

• Ding Dong Ding
• Past Three O'Clock
• Blessed Be That Maid Marie
• Hail Blessed Virgin Mary!
• Ding Dong Merrily on High
• Lullay My Liking - I Saw a Maiden - Myn Lyking
• Love Came Down at Christmas
• In the Bleak Mid Winter
• Bethlehem Down
• Dormi Jesu - Sleep Sweet Babe (The Virgin's Cradle Hymn)
• Wither's Rocking Hymn
• Watts's Cradle Hymn
• A Boy Was Born Free
• A Hymn to the Virign
• Torches
• Make we joy now in this fest
• There is no rose of such virtue
• Adam lay ybounden; Christmas
• The Fader of heven
• When Christ was born of Mary free

PART TWO: TRADITIONAL CAROLS

ENGLISH TRADITIONAL

• The Boar's Head Carol
• Come All You faithful Christians
• The Holly and the Ivy
• Now the Holly Bears a Berry (The St. Day Carol)
• The Cherry Tree Carol
• When Righteous Joseph Wedded Was
• O Joseph, Being an Old Man Truly/Joseph being an aged man truly
• The Seven Joys of Mary
• The Seven Rejoices of Mary
• The Blessings of Mary
• Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day
• The Twelve Days of Christmas
• In Those Twelve Days
• The Old Yeare Now Away Is Fled
• Rejoice and Be Merry
• The First Nowell
• Nowell and Nowell
• All Hayle to the Dayes
• On christmas Night All Christians Sing
• The Sussex Carol
• Let All That Are to Mirth Inclined
• The Lord at First Did Adam Make; Christmas
• When God at First Created Man; Christmas
• A Virgin Unspotted/A Virgin Most Pure
• The Angel Gabriel from God was sent
• God's dear Son, without beginning
• A Child this day is born
• Shepherds, arise!
• I saw three ships comes sailing in
• As I sat on a sunny bank

LUCK-VISIT SONGS

• This is the truth sent from above
• God Rest You Merry Gentlemen
• Come All You Worthy Gentlemen
• We Wish You a Merry Christmas
• Christemas Hath Made an End/Well-a-day! (The Gooding Carol)
• Wassail! Wassail All Over the Town (The Gloucestershire Wassail)
• A Wassail A Wassail Throughout All This Town!
• We've Been a While A-Wandering (The Yorkshire Wassail Song)
• Wassail O Wassail All Over the Town! (The Somerset Wassail)
• Here We Come A-Wassailing (Wassail Song)

IRISH TRADITIONAL

• The Darkest Midnight in December
• Ye Sons of Men, With Me Rejoice
• Good People All This Christmastime
• Day Is Come!

WELSH TRADITIONAL

• Oer Y'wr Gwr Sy'n Methu Caru/Soon the Hoar Old Year Will Leave Us/Deck the Hall With Boughs of Holly (Noz Galan)
• O Deued Pob Cristion/Come All Christians, Singing
• Wel, Dyma'r Borau Gorau I Gyd

AMERICAN TRADITIONAL

• O Mary and the baby, sweet lamb!
• Mary had a baby
• Go tell it on the mountain
• Rise up, shepherd, and follow!
• Lullay, thou tiny little child
• I wonder as I wander
• Sing we the Virgin Mary

TRINIDADIAN TRADITIONAL

• The Virgin Mary Had a Baby Boy

GERMAN TRADITIONAL

• Es Sungen Drei Engel/'Te Deum Laudamus!' three angels sang
• Te Deum Laudamus Three Angels Sang
• Maria durch ein' Dornwald ging/Blest Mary Wanders Through the Thorn
• Kommet, ihr Hirten/Come all ye shepherds
• Schlaf wohl, du Himmelsknabe du/O Sleep, Thou Heaven-Born Treasure, Thou
• Es kommt ein Schiff geladen/A Ship There Comes, a-Laden/Uns kompt ein Schiff gefahren/There comes a ship a-sailing
• O du fröhliche! O du selige!/O Most Wonderful! O Most Merciful!
• O Tannenbaum/O Christmas tree/O Dannebom

CZECH TRADITIONAL

• Zezulka Z Lesa Vylitla/Out of the forest a cuckoo flew
• Hajej, nynej, Jezisku/Jesu, Jesu, baby dear
• Hajej, nynej, Jezisku/Jesu, Jesu, baby dear

POLISH TRADITIONAL

• W zlobie lezy/Infant holy, Infant lowly

PROVENÇAL TRADITIONAL

• Guillô Pran Ton Tamborin!/Guillô come, and Robin too
• De matin ai rescountra lou trin/Ce matin j'ai rencontreé le train/Far away, what splendour comes this way? (Marcho di Rei)
• Un flambeau, Jeannette, Isabelle!/Comes with torhces, Jeanette, Isabella!

FRENCH TRADITIONAL

• Noel nouvelet!
• Dans cette étable/Cradled all lowly
• Entre le boeuf et l'âne gris/Oxen and asses stand around
• Quelle est cette odeur agréable/Shepherds, what fragrance, all-perfuming
• Quittez pasteurs/O leave your sheep ; Epiphany
• Il est né, le divin Enfant!/Christ is born a child on earth!
• Berger, secoue ton sommeil profond!/Shepherd, shake off your drowsy sleep!
• Les anges dans nos campagnes/Angels we have heard on high/Angels, we have heard your voices

BASQUE TRADITIONAL

• Birjina gaztettobat zegoen/The angel Gabriel from heaven came
• Oi Betleem!/Sing lullaby! l Christmas

SPANISH TRADITIONAL

• El Desembre congelat/Cold December's winds were stilled
• Veinticinco de diciembre/Twenty-fifth day of December
• El Noi de la Mare/The Son of the Virgin

NEOPOLITAN TRADITIONAL

• Quando nascette Ninno/When Christ, the Son of Mary