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Location: East Tennessee | Now that the season is upon us I have been dusting off the cobwebs from some Christmas songs.
I was wondering what other members play.
What is your favorite Christmas song?
Mine would be Silent Night. |
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Location: Spain | Chris De Burgh "Spaceman came traveling" I kind of like the twist on the normal theme . Hope it doesn't offend too many of you guys! |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | If any of you know of any good fingerpicking tabs, let me know. I've been messing around with my own versions of a couple. |
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Location: Chehalis, Washington | Favorite Christmas song would have to be "O Holy Night" (check out Martina McBride's Christmas CD) - favorite to play, "What Child is This?" or "O Come All Ye Faithful." |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Hanukka Song - Adam Sandler
Real simple, and the lyrics keep growing!
Actually, I gotta go chord/lyric searching to find me something appropriate.
Old standby: Create in me a Clean Heart. Only thing I know by heart. (with my eyes closed) |
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Location: Budd Lake, NJ | Traditional: "Silent Night"
Contemporary: "Light of the Stable" (Emmylou Harris, done by Selah) and "Once Upon a Christmas" (Dolly Parton, with Selah)
Classical: "Messiah" by Handel
How one's tastes change over the years; if you'd have told me 25 years ago that two of my favorite Christmas songs would be country-based, I'd never have believed it. (Jack would have been so pleased!) :)
--Karen |
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Location: East Tennessee | I also enjoy "Mary Did You Know". Kathy Mattea style. |
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Location: ms | "CHRISTMAS SONG FOR ALL YEAR ROUND" by Randy Stonehill. You can hear a sound clip on his web site. |
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Location: Las Vegas, Nevada | It's hard to top "Silent Night" which is a favorite of mine, too. Though for me "It Came Upon a Midnight Clear" would be the favorite. My all time favorite Christmas songs, though, appear on a CD called "Precious Child" by Schuyler and Bickhardt which is a musical Christmas Story with original songs and narration by Guy Clark, Mike Reid, Michael Johnson, Janis Ian, Vince Gill and a whole bunch of others. Really nice acoustic guitar by Craig Bickhardt. |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | A little off the wall... but I always liked ELPs "Father Christmas"... make me wish I had a 12 string. |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | OOOH, Christmas Song - Jethro Tull / Ian Anderson |
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Location: Scotland | Anything from the South Park "Mr Hankey's Christmas Classics" CD, especially Eric Cartman's delightful rendition of "O Holy Night" And of course "Merry F**k**g Christmas" by Mr Garrison. Just about finished learning that one. Roll on party time! |
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Location: Cicero, NY | Baby, It's Cold Outside - Tom Jones. I sing both parts.
Then I'm done for a year. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Too early to think of this. Let's wait till Dec 22. |
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Location: NJ | Cicha noc (Silent Night)
Lulajz|e Jezuniu (Sleep Little Jesus)
Dzisiaj w Betlejem (Today in Betlehem)
Po`jdz`my wszyscy do stajenki (Let's Go to the Barn)
you may not recognize these...
but I always have a place in my heart for jingle bell rock. |
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Location: Cicero, NY | Originally posted by cwk2:
Too early to think of this. Let's wait till Dec 22. I like how you think, cw. :D |
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Location: Vermont USA | Little Drummer Boy, Mary did you know, What Child is this
Pauly |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | of all the christmas ablums the only good one is Rac Charles because it actually has some swing in it. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I got Sergio's Navidad last year before Christmas and liked every song on it. Can't play any of them, though. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | There is a medly using "Silent Night" and Rebecca St. James' "Everlasting Love". |
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Location: Chehalis, Washington | You want something swinging? Check out Mercy Me's Christmas album they did in 2005 - WAY hip!
Paul, I really hate to be the one to say it, but I don't think South Park actually counts as Christmas music. Kind of like a child molester writing a children's book... :eek: :rolleyes: :eek: |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Sleigh Ride done surf-style by the Ventures. |
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| "There's No Place Like Home"..from Campbell's original album 'That Christmas Feeling'. |
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Location: Detroit area | White Heart's version of Little Drummer Boy, and Gloria (or pretty much anything else) from Mercy Me's Christmas album. Great stuff. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Happy Xmas (War is Over)
Especially the new Sarah Malachlan version. |
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Location: Round Rock, TX | Adoration by the Newsboys; most of the stuff from Merry Christmas Y'all by Asleep at the Wheel.
--bill |
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Location: Munich, Germany | 'Mary's Boy Child' and Joni Mitchell's 'River' (with a little 'he' to 'she'-exchange) |
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| Heilige Nacht, stille Nacht.... |
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Location: Minnesota | Originally posted by Mark in Boise:
If any of you know of any good fingerpicking tabs, let me know. I've been messing around with my own versions of a couple. Mark,
I just got "A Fingerstyle Christmas" from Hal Leonard and Mark Hanson's "Fingerstyle Christmas Guitar". The arrangements in both are very good. I ordered them from Amazon.com Done in standard notation and tab. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | John Fahey Christmas is also veyr good tabs. |
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Location: Kingston Ontario | Anything off of Chet's "East Tennessee Christmas". |
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Location: Wooster, Ohio | Fernando Ortega's "Winter Song". Fairly recent composition unlike a lot of Christmas songs and is the perfect song for Christmas Eve, so it fits cwk2, criteria. I think it is one of the best Christmas songs I have heard and will not probably get its do, because it is not an old classic one.
Steve |
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Location: Whitecourt, Ab | Call me sentimental, in first grade I was chosen to sing "Away in a Manger", and to this day it gives me a warm & fuzzy when I hear it |
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