song

[Linda]

what is your favorite Christmas song...

 

mine is Silent Night

[Synn]

lil dd and i sing silent night all year long nearly every night. it's her favorite! I also like White Christmas, silver bells and Susie Snowflake

[Linda]

Susie Snowflake???? I don't think i had ever heard that one.

[Synn]

Here comes Suzy Snowflake,

Dressed in a snow-white gown,

Tap, tap, tappin' at your windowpane,

To tell you she's in town.

 

Here comes Suzy Snowflake,

Soon you will hear her say,

"Come out ev'ryone and play with me,

I haven't long to stay."

 

"If you want to make a snowman,

I'll help you make it, one, two, three.

If you want to take a sleigh ride,

Whoops! The ride's on me."

 

Here comes Suzy Snowflake,

Look at her tumblin' down,

Bringing joy to ev'ry girl and boy,

Suzy's come to town.

 

"If you want to make a snowman,

I'll help you make it, one, two, three.

If you want to take a sleigh ride,

Whoops! The ride's on me."

 

Here comes Suzy Snowflake,

Look at her tumblin' down,

Bringing joy to ev'ry girl and boy,

Suzy's come to town.

 

 

[Synn]

Silent Night

The words of Silent Night were written by a Priest called Fr. Joseph Mohr in Mariapfarr, Austria, in 1816 and the music was added by his school teacher friend, Franz Xaver Gruber, in 1818 for the Christmas service at St. Nicholas church in Oberndorf, Austria.

 

 

Fr. Mohr asked Franz Gruber to compose the melody with a guitar arrangement. It was several years later that Franz Gruber wrote an arrangement for the organ. Historians who have conducted research in recent years believe that Fr. Mohr wanted a new carol that he could play on his guitar.

 

There is a legend associated with the carol that says, Fr. Mohr wanted the carol to be sung by the children of the village at the midnight Christmas Eve service, as a surprise for their parents. But in the middle of practicing, the organ broke and not a note would come from it! So the children had to learn the carol only accompanied by a guitar. They learnt the carol so well that they could sing it on its own without accompaniment.

 

 

However, there are no records to indicate that a children’s choir was involved or that the organ was broken.

 

At Midnight Mass in 1818, Fr. Mohr and Franz Gruber sang each of the six verses with the church choir repeating the last two lines of each verse. Mohr set down the guitar arrangement on paper around 1820 and that is the earliest manuscript that still exists, it is displayed in the Carolino Augusteum Museum in Salzburg. There are a number of manuscripts of various ‘Stille Nacht’ arrangement that were written by Franz Gruber in later years.

 

 

The original words of the song were in German and translated in to English went:

 

Silent night, holy night,

Bethlehem sleeps, yet what light,

Floats around the heavenly pair;

Songs of angels fills the air.

Strains of heavenly peace.

 

Soon they were translated into many languages and changed slightly and now the carol is a favorite all over the world!

 

[ozzzyyy]

Oh, I have so many favorites!! My all-time favorite is "Go Tell It On The Mountain", with lots of drums and done up instrumentally powerful! My second favorite is "Hark, The Herald Angels Sing".

[logcabinmama]

I have so many I love too, but I think that 'O Come All Ye Faithful' is one of the top on the list.