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"Oh, Christmas Tree", Length: 3 minutes 58 seconds
"O Tannenbaum", or, in its English version, "O Christmas Tree", is a Christmas carol of German origin. The best known version was written in 1824 by a Leipzig organist and teacher named Ernst Anschütz. The melody is an old folk tune. The first known "Tannenbaum" song lyrics date back to 1550.
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"What Child Is This?", Length: 2 minutes 20 seconds
"What Child Is This?" is a popular Christmas carol that was written in 1865. At the age of twenty-nine, writer William Chatterton Dix was struck with a sudden near-fatal illness and confined to bedrest for several months, during which he went into a deep depression. Yet out of his near-death experience, Dix wrote many hymns, including "What Child is This?".
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"Silent Night", Length: 2 minutes 11 seconds
"Silent Night" (German: Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht) is a popular Christmas carol. The original lyrics of the song Stille Nacht were written in German by the Austrian priest Father Josef Mohr and the melody was composed by the Austrian headmaster Franz Xaver Gruber.
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"O Holy Night", Length: 4 minutes 2 seconds
"O Holy Night" ("Cantique de Noël") is a well-known Christmas carol composed by Adolphe Adam in 1847 to the French poem "Minuit, chrétiens" (Midnight, Christians) by Placide Cappeau (1808-1877), a wine merchant and poet.
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"It Came Upon the Midnight Clear", Length: 4 minutes 25 seconds
"It Came Upon the Midnight Clear" is a poem and Christmas carol written by Edmund Sears, pastor of the Unitarian Church in Weston, Massachusetts. It first appeared on December 29, 1849 in the Christian Register in Boston.
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"God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen", Length: 3 minutes 56 seconds
"God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen" is a traditional Christmas carol. The melody is in a minor key and is in common time or cut time. The composer is unknown; it is often attributed as English traditional.
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"Deck the Halls", Length: 4 minutes 7 seconds.
"Deck the Halls" is a traditional Yuletide and New Years' carol. The "fa-la-la" refrains were probably originally played on the harp. The melody is Welsh and belongs to a winter carol, Nos Galan.
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"Angels We Have Heard on High", Length: 2 minutes 25 seconds
"Angels We Have Heard on High" is a Christmas carol. The words of the song are based on a traditional French carol known as Les Anges dans nos campagnes (literally, "Angels in our countryside"). Its most common English version was translated in 1862 by James Chadwick.
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"Jingle Bells", Length: 2 minutes 21 seconds
"Jingle Bells" is one of the best known and commonly sung winter songs in the world. It was written by James Lord Pierpont (1822–1893) and copyrighted under the title 'One Horse Open Sleigh' on September 16, 1857.
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"Hark! The Herald Angels Sing", Length: 1 minute 51 seconds
"Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" is a popular Christmas carol written by Charles Wesley. It first appeared in Hymns and Sacred Poems in 1739, under the topic of "Hymn for Christmas-Day". The original opening couplet was "Hark! how all the welkin rings / Glory to the King of Kings".
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