And the Favorite Christmas Carol Is..

How can anyone choose just one?  It isn't possible!  I have favorites that are deep and meaningful about Christ's birth, but then there are several more secular songs that are favorites as well.  Where to start?  Where to start?

Today's choice is "Angels We Have Heard on High."  Not only do I enjoy listening to this song, in harmony, but I also love to play it on the organ or piano also.

When I was playing the organ at St. Mark's during the Christmas season, this was always at the top of my Play List, especially on Christmas Eve.  Of course nimble fingers that moved quickly are required for this song to be successfully played, and mine were....then.  Not so much now, but then?  They would dance across the keys.

One of my new Christmas CDs this season was ordered from the Ball Brothers.  When it arrived in the mail the other day, I was delighted to see that this song was included.  The harmony is beautiful, the notes ring clear, and the bass (my favorite) is strong. 

Angels We Have Heard on High

Song by Pentatonix

Lyrics

Angels we have heard on high
Sweetly singing o'er the plains
And the mountains in reply
Echoing their joyous strains

Angels we have heard on high
Sweetly, sweetly through the night
And the mountains in reply
Echoing their brief delight

Gloria, in excelsis Deo
Gloria, in excelsis Deo

Shepherds, why this jubilee?
Why your joyous strains prolong?
What the gladsome tidings be
Which inspire your heavenly song?

Gloria, in excelsis Deo
Gloria, in excelsis Deo

Come to Bethlehem and see
Him whose birth the angels sing,
Come, adore on bended knee,
Christ the Lord, the newborn King.

Gloria, in excelsis Deo
Gloria, in excelsis Deo

Yeah
Gloria, in excelsis Deo

Angels we have heard
Angels we have heard on high
Angels we have heard, oh
Angels we have heard on high
Angels we have heard on high
Angels we have heard on high

In excelsis Deo