🎄 1. Silent Night (1818)

Lyrics: Joseph Mohr
Music: Franz Gruber

Verse 1
Silent night, holy night,
All is calm, all is bright
Round yon Virgin Mother and Child,
Holy Infant so tender and mild,
Sleep in heavenly peace,
Sleep in heavenly peace.

Verse 2
Silent night, holy night,
Shepherds quake at the sight;
Glories stream from heaven afar,
Heavenly hosts sing: “Alleluia!
Christ the Savior is born,
Christ the Savior is born!”

Verse 3
Silent night, holy night,
Son of God, love’s pure light;
Radiant beams from Thy holy face
With the dawn of redeeming grace,
Jesus, Lord, at Thy birth,
Jesus, Lord, at Thy birth.

---

🎄 2. O Holy Night (1847)

Lyrics: Placide Cappeau
Translated by John Sullivan Dwight
Music: Adolphe Adam

(English translation is also public domain)

Verse 1
O holy night! The stars are brightly shining,
It is the night of the dear Savior’s birth;
Long lay the world in sin and error pining,
Till He appeared and the soul felt its worth.
A thrill of hope the weary world rejoices,
For yonder breaks a new and glorious morn;
Fall on your knees!
O hear the angel voices!
O night divine,
O night when Christ was born!
O night, O holy night,
O night divine!

---

🎄 3. Joy to the World (1719)

Lyrics: Isaac Watts
Music: Lowell Mason (public domain)

Verse 1
Joy to the world! The Lord is come;
Let earth receive her King;
Let every heart prepare Him room,
And Heaven and nature sing,
And Heaven and nature sing,
And Heaven, and Heaven, and nature sing.

Verse 2
Joy to the Earth! The Savior reigns;
Let men their songs employ;
While fields and floods, rocks, hills and plains
Repeat the sounding joy,
Repeat the sounding joy,
Repeat, repeat, the sounding joy.

---

🎄 4. Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (1739)

Lyrics: Charles Wesley
Music: Felix Mendelssohn

Verse 1
Hark! the herald angels sing,
“Glory to the newborn King;
Peace on earth, and mercy mild,
God and sinners reconciled!”
Joyful, all ye nations rise,
Join the triumph of the skies;
With the angelic host proclaim,
“Christ is born in Bethlehem!”
Hark! the herald angels sing,
“Glory to the newborn King!”

---

🎄 5. O Come, All Ye Faithful (Adeste Fideles) (1700s)

Traditional Latin Hymn

Verse 1
O come, all ye faithful, joyful and triumphant,
O come ye, O come ye to Bethlehem;
Come and behold Him, born the King of angels;
O come, let us adore Him,
O come, let us adore Him,
O come, let us adore Him, Christ the Lord.

---

🎄 6. The First Noel (Traditional English, 1700s)

Verse 1
The first Noel the angels did say
Was to certain poor shepherds in fields as they lay;
In fields where they lay keeping their sheep,
On a cold winter’s night that was so deep.
Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel,
Born is the King of Israel.

---

🎄 7. O Come, O Come, Emmanuel (12th Century)

Translated 1851 (public domain)

Verse 1
O come, O come, Emmanuel,
And ransom captive Israel,
That mourns in lonely exile here
Until the Son of God appear.
Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel
Shall come to thee, O Israel.

---

🎄 8. Angels We Have Heard on High (Traditional French)

Verse 1
Angels we have heard on high
Sweetly singing o’er the plains,
And the mountains in reply
Echoing their joyous strains.
Gloria, in excelsis Deo!
Gloria, in excelsis Deo!

---

🎄 9. Good King Wenceslas (1853)

Lyrics: John Mason Neale

Verse 1
Good King Wenceslas looked out
On the feast of Stephen,
When the snow lay round about,
Deep and crisp and even.

---

🎄 10. God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen (Traditional English, 1500s)

Verse 1
God rest ye merry, gentlemen,
Let nothing you dismay,
Remember Christ our Savior
Was born on Christmas Day…

🎄 11. Away in a Manger (Traditional, 1880s)

Verse 1
Away in a manger, no crib for a bed,
The little Lord Jesus laid down His sweet head.
The stars in the sky looked down where He lay,
The little Lord Jesus asleep on the hay.

Verse 2
The cattle are lowing, the Baby awakes,
But little Lord Jesus, no crying He makes.
I love Thee, Lord Jesus, look down from the sky
And stay by my cradle till morning is nigh.

Verse 3
Be near me, Lord Jesus; I ask Thee to stay
Close by me forever, and love me, I pray.
Bless all the dear children in Thy tender care,
And fit us for heaven to live with Thee there.

---

🎄 12. It Came Upon the Midnight Clear (1849)

Lyrics: Edmund Sears

Verse 1
It came upon the midnight clear,
That glorious song of old,
From angels bending near the earth
To touch their harps of gold;
“Peace on the earth, good will to men,
From Heaven’s all gracious King.”
The world in solemn stillness lay
To hear the angels sing.

Verse 2
Still through the cloven skies they come
With peaceful wings unfurled,
And still their heavenly music floats
O’er all the weary world;
Above its sad and lowly plains
They bend on hovering wing,
And ever o’er its Babel sounds
The blessed angels sing.

Verse 3
Yet with the woes of sin and strife
The world has suffered long;
Beneath the angel strain have rolled
Two thousand years of wrong;
And man, at war with man, hears not
The love-song which they bring;
O hush the noise, ye men of strife,
And hear the angels sing!

---

🎄 13. While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks (1700s)

Lyrics: Nahum Tate

Verse 1
While shepherds watched their flocks by night,
All seated on the ground,
The angel of the Lord came down,
And glory shone around.

Verse 2
“Fear not,” said he, for mighty dread
Had seized their troubled mind;
“Glad tidings of great joy I bring
To you and all mankind.”

Verse 3
“To you in David’s town this day
Is born of David’s line,
The Savior, who is Christ the Lord;
And this shall be the sign:”

Verse 4
“The heavenly Babe you there shall find
To human view displayed,
All meanly wrapped in swathing bands
And in a manger laid.”

---

🎄 14. We Three Kings (1857)

Lyrics: John Henry Hopkins Jr.

Verse 1
We three kings of Orient are;
Bearing gifts we traverse afar,
Field and fountain, moor and mountain,
Following yonder star.

Refrain:
O star of wonder, star of night,
Star with royal beauty bright,
Westward leading, still proceeding,
Guide us to thy perfect light.

---

🎄 15. O Little Town of Bethlehem (1868)

Lyrics: Phillips Brooks

Verse 1
O little town of Bethlehem,
How still we see thee lie!
Above thy deep and dreamless sleep
The silent stars go by.
Yet in thy dark streets shineth
The everlasting Light;
The hopes and fears of all the years
Are met in thee tonight.

---

🎄 16. What Child Is This? (1865)

Verse 1
What Child is this, who, laid to rest
On Mary’s lap is sleeping?
Whom angels greet with anthems sweet,
While shepherds watch are keeping?

Refrain:
This, this is Christ the King,
Whom shepherds guard and angels sing;
Haste, haste to bring Him laud,
The Babe, the Son of Mary.

---

🎄 17. Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming (16th Century)

Verse 1
Lo, how a rose e’er blooming
From tender stem hath sprung;
Of Jesse’s lineage coming,
As men of old have sung.
It came, a floweret bright,
Amid the cold of winter,
When half spent was the night.

---

🎄 18. I Saw Three Ships (Traditional English)

Verse 1
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.

---

🎄 19. The Holly and the Ivy (Traditional English)

Verse 1
The holly and the ivy,
When they are both full grown,
Of all the trees that are in the wood
The holly bears the crown.

Refrain:
O the rising of the sun,
And the running of the deer,
The playing of the merry organ,
Sweet singing in the choir.

---

🎄 20. Coventry Carol (16th Century)

Verse 1
Lully, lullay, thou little tiny Child,
Bye bye, lully, lullay.
Lully, lullay, thou little tiny Child,
Bye bye, lully, lullay.

---

🎄 21. Bring a Torch, Jeannette, Isabella (Traditional French)

Verse 1
Bring a torch, Jeannette, Isabella,
Bring a torch, come swiftly and run!
Christ is born, good folk of the village,
Jesus is born and Mary’s calling.

---

🎄 22. In the Bleak Midwinter (Poem 1872)

Lyrics: Christina Rossetti
Music: Gustav Holst (1906) — Public Domain

Verse 1
In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan,
Earth stood hard as iron, water like a stone;
Snow had fallen, snow on snow,
Snow on snow;
In the bleak midwinter, long ago.

---

🎄 23. Ding Dong! Merrily on High (1920 lyrics, PD)

Verse 1
Ding dong! merrily on high
In heaven the bells are ringing;
Ding dong! verily the sky
Is riv’n with angel-singing.
Gloria,
Hosanna in excelsis!

---

🎄 24. Here We Come A-Wassailing (Traditional English)

Verse 1
Here we come a-wassailing
Among the leaves so green;
Here we come a-wandering
So fair to be seen.

Refrain:
Love and joy come to you,
And to you your wassail too;
And God bless you and send you
A Happy New Year.

---

🎄 25. Masters in This Hall (1860)

Verse 1
Masters in this hall,
Hear ye news today
Brought from over sea,
And ever I you pray.

Refrain:
Nowell! Nowell! Nowell!
Nowell, sing we clear!
Holpen are all folk on earth,
Born is God’s Son so dear.