What's your favourite Christmas hymn, carol or song?

Sometimes, however much you try, you can never get in to the Christmas mood. Even though everywhere you look you can see some semblance of the arrival of the Christmas season. But somehow you just cannot get yourself to feel that way. This is exactly how I was feeling till I decided to proactively do something about it. I decided to listen to my favourite Christmas carols, hymns and songs. So throughout the day (in office on ear phones), I started listening to various versions of Little Drummer Boy, Away in a Manger, Oh Come, All Ye Faithful, Hark! The Herald Angels Sing, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Silent Night etc…Now it seems like I won’t be able to get rid of this amazing feeling!

So, what's the difference between a Christmas hymn, carol and a song? Some experts believe that hymns are carols for adults. On this basis, Once in Royal David's City, and Silent Night, for example, are carols. The Oxford Book of Carols defines carols as "songs with a religious impulse that are simple, hilarious, popular and modern." And according to me, a carol that has a copyright and that some people use to make cartloads of money out of, during this season, are Christmas songs. :-)

Almost all of us have a favourite Christmas song, carol or hymn. The ones that we can listen to over and over again. The ones that bring back warm memories of Christmases gone by. My favourite ones are, Little Drummer Boy, All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth, When A Child Is Born, Feliz Navidad and The Christmas Song.

Which are your favourite?

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