What are your favorite traditional Christmas carols? Select as many as you like

Below find a list of traditional Christmas carols, primarily in English. Choose as many songs as you like.


Note that for this poll, we are looking at traditional Christmas music, not contemporary holiday pop songs -- we have already discussed those in previous holiday specials. This episode will focus on music created prior to the 20th Century, and frequently performed by carolers and at liturgical services.


Did we forget one of your favorite carols? Add it in the space provided below.

1 votes
A Christmas Carol
1%
0 votes
A Great and Mighty Wonder
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0 votes
A Virgin Unspotted
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0 votes
Angels from the Realms of Glory
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6 votes
Angels We Have Heard on High
5%
0 votes
As with Gladness Men of Old
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5 votes
Away in a Manger
4%
0 votes
The Babe in Bethlem's Manger
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0 votes
Beautiful Star of Behlehem
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0 votes
Benedicamus Domino
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0 votes
Bethlehem Down
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0 votes
Boar's Head Carol
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0 votes
Brightest and Best
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0 votes
Calypso Carol
0%
0 votes
Candlelight Carol
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7 votes
Carol of the Bells
6%
1 votes
Children, Go Where I Send Thee
1%
0 votes
Christians, Awake, Salute the Happy Morn
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0 votes
Come and I Will Sing You
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0 votes
Come Thou Long Expected Jesus
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0 votes
Coventry Carol
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3 votes
Ding Dong Merrily on High
3%
0 votes
Down in Yon Forest
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5 votes
Do You Hear What I Hear?
4%
0 votes
Far, Far Away on Judea's Plains
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0 votes
Gabriel's Message
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0 votes
Gaudete
0%
1 votes
Gloucestershire Wassail
1%
2 votes
Go Tell It on the Mountain
2%
7 votes
God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen
6%
1 votes
Good Christian Men, Rejoice
1%
5 votes
Good King Wenceslas
4%
4 votes
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
3%
3 votes
Here We Come A-wassailing
3%
0 votes
Huron Carol
0%
1 votes
I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day
1%
2 votes
I Saw Three Ships (Come Sailing In)
2%
0 votes
Il Dulci Jubilo
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2 votes
In the Bleak Midwinter
2%
0 votes
Infant Holy, Infant Lowly
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2 votes
It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
2%
0 votes
Jesus Christ the Apple Tree
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6 votes
Jingle Bells
5%
5 votes
Joy to the World
4%
0 votes
Judea
0%
0 votes
Little Donkey
0%
1 votes
Love Came Down at Christmas
1%
1 votes
Mary's Boy Child
1%
0 votes
Masters In This Hall
0%
0 votes
Night of Silence
0%
7 votes
O Come, All Ye Faithful
6%
2 votes
O Come, O Come Emmanuel
2%
3 votes
O Holy Night
3%
2 votes
O Little Town of Bethlehem
2%
3 votes
O Tannenbaum/O Christmas Tree
3%
0 votes
Of the Father's Heart Begotten
0%
0 votes
Once in Royal David's City
0%
0 votes
Past Three O'Clock
0%
1 votes
Patapan
1%
0 votes
Rise Up Shepherd and Foller
0%
0 votes
Sans Day Carol
0%
0 votes
See, Amid the Winter's Snow
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0 votes
Shepherd's Pipe Carol
0%
0 votes
Shepherds Arise
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5 votes
Silent Night
4%
0 votes
Sir Christemas
0%
0 votes
Sleep, Baby, Sleep
0%
0 votes
Star of the East
0%
0 votes
Sussex Carol
0%
0 votes
Sweet Little Jesus Boy
0%
0 votes
The Cherry-Tree Carol
0%
4 votes
The First Noel
3%
0 votes
The Friendly Beasts
0%
2 votes
The Holly and the Ivy
2%
4 votes
The Little Drummer Boy
3%
0 votes
The Lord At First Did Adam Make
0%
0 votes
The Rocking Carol
0%
0 votes
The Seven Joys of Mary
0%
0 votes
The Three Kings
0%
4 votes
The Twelve Days of Christmas
3%
0 votes
There Is No Rose
0%
0 votes
This Endris Night
0%
0 votes
Torches
0%
0 votes
Unto Us is Born a Son
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3 votes
We Three Kings of Orient Are
3%
4 votes
We Wish You a Merry Christmas
3%
1 votes
What Child Is This?
1%
0 votes
What Sweeter Music
0%
0 votes
Whence Is That Lovely Fragrance Wafting?
0%
0 votes
While by My Sheep I Watched at Night
0%
0 votes
While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks
0%
0 votes
With Wondering Awe
0%
0 votes
Zither Carol
0%
1 votes
Other
1%