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Description: Sing along to classic CHRISTMAS CAROLS with our music, lyrics and videos. The lyrics and origins of the most popular CHRISTMAS CAROLS together with additional sections dedicated to Christmas songs as well as Carols, a quiz and the traditional Christmas poem

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Christmas carols are based on Christian lyrics and relate, in the main, to the Nativity. Christmas carols were introduced in to church services by St Francis of Assisi in the 12th century.

As for the word carols, "carol" is a derivative of the French word caroller, the interpretation of which means dancing around in a circle. Carol and carols, eventually came to mean not only to dance but included music and lyrics - hence Christmas Caroling.   Angels from the Realms of Glory     Ave Maria     Away in a Manger carol     Carol of the Bells     Christians Awake     Deck the Halls carol     Ding Dong Merrily on High     God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen     Good Christian Men Rejoice     Good King Wenc

The joyous themes for many traditional Christmas carols were banned in England by the staunch Protestant Oliver Cromwell and many of the very old Christmas carols and songs were subsequently lost for all time. Christmas carols were only fully popularised again during the Victorian era when they again expressed joyful and merry themes in their carol lyrics as opposed to the normal, more sombre, Christian lyrics found in hymns. As religious observances in the United States and England were closely linked the

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