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Suggestions for carols suitable for services on Christmas Day.

Readings

Principal Service

Set I

• Isaiah 9.2-7.
• Psalm 96.
• Titus 2.11-14.
• Luke 2.1-14 [15-20].

Set II

• Isaiah 62.6-end.
• Psalm 97.
• Titus 3.4-7.
• Luke 2.[1-7] 8-20.

Set III

• Isaiah 52.7-10.
• Psalm 98.
• Hebrews 1.1-4 [5-12].
• John 1.1-14.

Carols

• A Carolling! A Carolling! (Ellacombe, Organ, 3 Verses) Free Download
• A Child Is Born To Us (Denby, Organ, 3 Verses)
• A Great And Mighty Wonder (Es Ist Ein Ros Entsprungen, Organ & Trumpets, 4 Verses)
• All Hail And Welcome Holy Child (Luinneach, Piano Ensemble, 3 Verses)
• Alleluia Sing To Jesus To The Manger (Calon Lân, Organ, 5 Verses) Free Download
• An Angel Appeared To The Shepherds (Brycheiniog, Small Ensemble, 4 Verses)
• Angels Are Singing (Emmanuel Now, Chamber Orchestra, 5 Verses)
• Angels From The Realms Of Glory (Iris, Organ, 5 Verses)
• Arise And Sing A Joyful Song (Morning Song, Organ, 5 Verses)
• As With Gladness Men Of Old (Dix, Organ, 5 Verses)
• Away In A Manger (Cradle Song, Chamber Ensemble, 3 Verses)
• Behold The Great Creator (Kilmarnock, Organ, 5 Verses)
• Born In The Night (Mary’s Child, Piano Ensemble, 4 Verses) Free Download
• Brightest and Best (Epithany, Organ, 4 Verses) Free Download
• Brightest and Best (Liebster Immanuel, Organ, 4 Verses)
• Child In The Manger (Bunessan, Piano Ensemble, 3 Verses)
• Christians Awake! (Yorkshire, Organ, 6 Verses)
• Cloth For The Cradle (Wae’s For Me Prince Charlie, Piano & Flute, 4 Verses)
• Come And Join The Celebration (Piano & Flute, 3 Verses)
• Come Come Come To The Manger (Piano & Flute, 3 Verses)
• Come Let Us Sing To God (Dover, Organ, 3 Verses)
• Come They Told Me (Little Drummer Boy, Military Band)
• Come Thou Long Expected Jesus (Halton Holgate, Organ, 4 Verses)
• Come Thou Long-Expected Jesus (Cross of Jesus, Organ, 4 Verses)
• Ding Dong! Merrily On High (Bransle De L’Official, Organ & Bells, 3 Verses)
• Earth Has Many A Noble City (Stuttgart, Organ, 5 Verses)
• For Mary Mother Of Our Lord (Kilmarnock, Organ, 6 Verses)
• From Advent to Epiphany Vol. 2
• Glory Be To God On High (Noël, Organ with Descant, 4 Verses)
• Go Tell It On The Mountain (Guitar & Flute, 4 Verses)
• God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (Organ, 4 Verses)
• God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (Organ, 7 Verses)
• God Sent His Son (Sing Glory Alleluia, Piano Ensemble, 5 verses) Free Download
• God Sent His Son (Sing Glory Alleluia, Soprano, Piano Ensemble, 5 verses)
• Good Christians All Rejoice (In Dulci Jubilo, Organ, 3 Verses)
• Good Christians All Rejoice (In Dulci Jubilo, Organ, 3 Verses) Free Download
• Good King Wenceslas (Tempus Adest Floridum, Organ, 5 Verses) Free Download
• Hark The Herald Angels Sing (Mendelssohn, Organ & Brass, 3 Verses) Free Download
• How Bright Appears The Morning Star! (Wie Schön Leuchtet, Organ, 3 Verses)
• How Brightly Shines The Morning Star! (Wie Schön Leuchtet, Organ, 3 Verses)
• I Know A Rose Tree Springing (Es Is Ein Ros Entsprungen, Organ & Trumpet Descant, 3 Verses)
• I Saw Three Ships (Chamber Ensemble, 9 Verses) Free Download
• In Dulci Jubilo (Organ, 4 verses) Free Download
• In The Bleak Midwinter (Cranham, Organ, 5 Verses)
• Infant Holy, Infant Lowly (Wzlobie Lezy, Organ, 2 Verses)
• It Came Upon A Midnight Clear (Carol, Organ, 5 Verses) Free Download
• It Came Upon A Midnight Clear (Noël, Organ & Trumpet Descant, 5 Verses)
• Jesus Good Above All Other (Quem Pastores, 5 Verses) Free Download
• Joy To The World (Antioch, Organ and Trumpet Descant, 3 Verses)
• Leanabh An Àigh (Bunessan, Piano Ensemble, 4 Verses)
• Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence (Picardy, Orchestra, 4 Verses)
• Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence (Picardy, Organ, 4 Verses)
• Let The Church Bells Ring Out (Moody, Organ, 3 verses)
• Little Donkey (Small Ensemble, 5 Verses) – Free MP3 Download
• Little Jesus Sweetly Sleep (Rocking, Guitar & Flute, 2 Verses) Free Download
• Love Came Down At Christmas (Gartan, Organ, 3 Verses)
• Lully Lulla Thou Little Tiny Child (Coventry Carol, Strings, 3 Verses)
• Mary Had A Baby (Traditional, 7 Verses)
• O Come All Ye Faithful (Adeste Fideles, Organ & Trumpet Descant, 4 Verses) Free Download
• O Come O Come Emmanuel (Veni Emmanuel, Organ, 5 Verses) – Free Dowload
• O Holy Night (Small Ensemble, 6 Verses)
• O Little Town Of Bethlehem (Forest Green, Organ & Trumpet Descant, 4 Verses)
• Of The Father’s Love Begotten (Divinum Mysterium, Organ, 5 or 6 Verses)
• On Christmas Night All Christians Sing (Sussex Carol, Organ, 4 Verses)
• On This Day Earth Shall Ring (Personent Hodie, Organ, 4 Verses)
• Once In Royal David’s City (Irby, Organ & Trumpet Descant, 4 Verses)
• See Amid The Winter’s Snow (Humility, Organ & Trumpet, 6 Verses)
• See Amid The Winter’s Snow (Humility, Organ, 4 Verses)
• See Him Lying On A Bed Of Straw (Calypso Carol, 4 Verses)
• See There a Manger Filled with Hay (The Angels Sang, Small Consort, 3 Verses) Free Download
• Silent Night (Stille Nacht, Piano, 3 Verses)
• Sing To God New Songs Of Worship (Ode to Joy, Organ, 3 Verses)
• The Angel Gabriel From Heaven Came (Birina Gaztettobat Zegoen, Small Ensemble, 4 Verses)
• The First Nowell (Nowell, Organ and Brass Descant, 4 Verses)
• The Holly And The Ivy (Chamber Orchestra, 6 Verses)
• The Orange Of Christingle (Holly And The Ivy, Chamber Orchestra, 5 Verses) Download For Free
• The Virgin Mary Had A Baby Boy (Steel Band, 3 Verses)
• Thou Didst Leave Thy Throne (Margaret, Organ & Trumpet Descant, 5 Verses) Free Download
• Unto Us A Boy Is Born (Puer Nobis, Organ & Trumpet Descant, 5 Verses)
• We Three Kings (Kings of Orient, Chamber Ensemble, 5 Verses)
• What Child Is This (Greensleeves, Theorbo & Flute, 3 Verses)
• When Morning Gilds The Skies (Laudes Domini, Organ, 4 Verses)
• While Shepherds Watched (Winchester Old, Organ & Trumpet Descant, 6 Verses) Free Download
• Ye Holy Angels Bright (Darwall’s 148th, Organ, 4 Verses)
• Ye Watchers And Ye Holy Ones (Lasst Uns Erfreuen, Organ, 4 Verses)

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