At the request of no-one in particular, here’s my current list of hymns and carols which I consider for use at Christmas themed functions. Some don’t really work in corporate worship, but are good in other contexts.
The little key refers mostly to either numbers the Rejoice! hymnbook of the Presbyterian Church of Australia or 100 Favourite Christmas Carols, which is published by Open Book Publishers, Adelaide Australia. The others you can find by googling the titles.
Any suggestions for additions?
| A great and mighty wonder | R/173 |
| Across the plains (The three drovers) | 100CC/4 |
| As with gladness men of old | R/187 |
| Angels from the realms of glory | R/188 |
| Away in a manger | R/172 |
| Child in the manger | R/179 |
| Come and Sing the Christmas Story | R/186 |
| Christians awake salute the happy morn | R/167 |
| Come on ring those bells | |
| Ding dong merrily on high | 100CC/23 |
| From the squalor of borrowed stable | Getty/Townend |
| Gentle Mary laid her child | 100CC/27 |
| God rest ye merry gentlemen | 100CC/31 |
| Good Christians all rejoice | R/183 |
| Good King Wenceslas | 100CC/33 |
| Go tell (it on the mountain) | 100CC/30 |
| Hark the glad sound | R/177 |
| Hark! the heralds angels sing | R/175 |
| I cannot tell | R/127 |
| Infant holy, infant lowly | R/184 |
| In the bleak midwinter | |
| It came upon the midnight clear | R/176 |
| Joy has dawned | Getty/Townend |
| Joy to the world | R/163 |
| Let all mortal flesh keep silent | TH 118 |
| Long time ago in Bethlehem (Mary’s boy child) | 100CC/52 |
| Love came down at Christmas (Tune: Gartan) | 100CC/53 |
| O come all ye faithful | R/170 |
| O come, O come Emmanuel | R/165 |
| O holy night | 100CC/63 |
| O Little Town Of Bethlehem | R/180 |
| Once in royal David’s city | R/190 |
| On Christmas night (Sussex Carol) | 100CC/67 |
| See there in the manger low | R/181 |
| Silent night, holy night | R182 |
| Still, still, still | 100CC81 |
| Sun gleams bright (Merry Christmas) | 100CC/80 |
| Tell out my soul | R168 |
| The first nowell | R174 |
| The holly and the ivy | 100CC/99 |
| The north wind | 100CC/85 |
| We three kings | 100CC/91 |
| What child is this? | R171 |
| While shepherds watched their flocks by night | R164 |
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