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"The Twelve Days of Christmas" is an English Christmas carol. A classic example of a cumulative song, the lyrics detail a series of increasingly numerous gifts given to the speaker by their "true love" on each of the twelve days of Christmas (the twelve days that make up the Christmas season, starting with Christmas Day).
The Swedish adaptation is often sung in homes, in schools and sometimes in Saint Lucia's Day processions. It was originally used by the Swedish free church movement. The lyrics includes childhood references that were removed when the song was included in the hymnal Den svenska psalmboken (1986), and replaced with an adapted version of the lyrics that was originally published in 1906 in the ...
With songs of noble sound and word, and every Christmas day Will be full of bliss! Chorus: With the New Year Is a new life to live! Together with all our wishes and hopes, Come let us sing them, oh come let us hum them to fill our hearts with bliss Chorus Preface Coda With songs of noble sound and word, and every Christmas day Will be full of ...
Where do the '12 Days of Christmas' lyrics come from? The lyrics to this song first appeared in the 1780 English children's book Mirth Without Mischief. Some of the words have changed over the years.
Here's a fun fact about the "12 Days of Christmas" tune we bet you didn't know. Since 1984, PNC Bank has been tracking the price of giving each gift mentioned in the song with the PNC Christmas ...
W Żłobie Leży ("In the Manger He Lies") is a traditional Polish Christmas carol.In 1920, the song was translated into English as "Infant Holy, Infant Lowly" by Edith Margaret Gellibrand Reed (1885-1933), a British musician and playwright. [1]
"Joy to the World" is an English hymn and Christmas carol. It was written in 1719 by the English minister and hymnist Isaac Watts. It is usually sung to the American composer Lowell Mason's 1848 arrangement of a tune attributed to George Frideric Handel. The hymn's lyrics are a Christian interpretation of Psalm 98 and Genesis 3.
"Star of the East", originally named "Stern über Bethlehem" is a popular Christmas carol written in the 1800s. The words were written by New York lyricist George Cooper in 1890. The music was arranged by composer Amanda Kennedy in 1883, for a song called "Star of the Sea".