Merry Christmas! I figured since I wouldn’t get each and every reader a present, I would instead share my favorite and least favorite Christmas music! Are you ready for this?
Favorite Christmas Songs
- Believe by Josh Groban
- Wonderful Christmas Time by Paul McCartney
- Love Came Down at Christmas by Jars of Clay
- Wizards in Winter by TSO
- Step Into Christmas by Elton John
- Happy Holidays/The Holiday Season by Andy Williams
- Celebrate Me Home by Kenny Loggins
- What Christmas Means to Me by Stevie Wonder
- Sleigh Ride mixed with Super Mario Brothers by Oneup Mushrooms
- Kay Thompson’s Jingle Bells by Micheal W. Smith
- The Christmas Waltz by Harry Connick Jr.
- All I Want for Christmas Is You by Mariah Carey
Honorable Mention- Merry Christmas Happy Holidays by N Sync, This Christmas by Straight No Chaser, and Christmas Shoes by New Song
Favorite Christmas Carols (you know, all those traditional songs you can find in any Presbyterian hymnal)
- God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
- Oh Come Oh Come Emmanuel
- Oh Holy Night
- How Great Our Joy
- Birthday of a King
- Away in a Manger (Cradle Song)
- Angels from the Realms of Glory
- Good Christian Men Rejoice
- Hark the Herald Angels Sing (I rewrote the chorus and the sopranos don’t stop moving for more than an eighth count as opposed to the normal quarter.
) - We Three Kings
- Joy to the World
- Angels We Have Heard on High
Least Favorite Christmas Songs
- Little Drummer Boy
- Do You Hear What I Hear?
- The Gift (about the girl and her bird and such; basically the above named song but with one element changed)
- The Carpenters. Sorry, but, not for me.
- Last Christmas by Wham!
- Almost every vocal performance of Carol of the Bells
- Dog Jingle Bells
- Other than that I can enjoy any Christmas song. . .
Favorite Christmas Movies
- A Charlie Brown Christmas
- How the Grinch Stole Christmas (animated)
- The Polar Express
- Elf
- The Muppet Christmas Carol
- Jingle All the Way
- Home Alone 2
- The Grinch (with Jim Carey)
- Home Alone
- Christmas With the Kranks
- Deck the Halls
- Frosty the Snowman
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December 25, 2009 at 7:39 pm
Jeri Lindley
I cannot believe you don’t like The Gift! It is about sacrificing and giving all you have. SCROOGE! Here’s the lyrics and a link to youtube…just in case you have never heard it.
A poor orphan girl named Maria
Was walking to market one day
She stopped for a rest by the roadside
Where a bird with a broken wing lay
A few moments passed till she saw it
For its feathers were covered with sand
But soon clean and wrapped it was traveling
In the warmth of Maria’s small hand
She happily gave her last peso
On a cage made of rushes and twine
She fed it loose corn from the market
And watched it grow stronger with time
Now the gift giving service was coming
And the church shone with tinsel and light
And all of the townfolks brought presents
To lay by the manger that night
There were diamonds and incense and perfumes
In packages fit for a king
But for one ragged bird in a small cage
Maria had nothing to bring
She waited ’til just before midnight
So no one would see her go in
And crying she knelt by the manger
For her gift was unworthy of Him
Then a voice spoke to her through the darkness
“Maria, what brings you to me?
If the bird in the cage is your offering,
Open the door and let me see.”
Though she trembled, she did as He asked her
And out of the cage the bird flew
Soaring up into the rafters
On a wing that had healed good as new
Just then the midnight bells rang out
And the little bird started to sing
A song that no words could recapture
Whose beauty was fit for a king
Now Maria felt blessed just to listen
To that cascade of notes sweet and long
As her offerings was lifted to heaven
By the very first nightingale’s song