A babe is born, I wys
Westminster Abbey Library
A babe is born of high nature
Trinity College Cambridge Library / Selden Manuscript (15th century)
A child this day is born
Christmas Carols Ancient and Modern (1833 Sandys)
A childling slept
Anonymous
A little baby boy
Hogan, W. M.
A Patre unigenitus... a maiden
Selden Manuscript (15th century)
A shoot, a shoot on Jesse's tree
A Religious of C. S. M. V.
A virgin most pure, as the prophets do tell
Some Ancient Christmas Carols (1822 Gilbert)
Across the plains one Christmas night
Angior, Harry Rupert [Pseudonym: Wheeler, John]
Adam lay ybounden
Sloane Manuscript (15th century)
All creatures of our God and king
Draper, William Henry / Francis of Assisi
All glory to God in the highest we sing
Littledale, Richard Frederick
All my heart this night rejoices
Winkworth, Catherine / Gerhardt, Paulus
All the skies tonight sing o'er us
O'Connor, John / Gerhardt, Paulus
All ye who are to mirth inclined
The Garland of Good-will (c.1699)
Alleluia... O sons and daughters
Hymns Ancient & Modern / Neale, John Mason / Tisserand, Jean
Alleluya to Jesus who died on the tree, and hath raised
Christmas Carols Old and New (1871) / Anonymous English
And Mary bore Jesus Christ
Watson, W. D. (Collector) / Doble, G. H. (Collector) / Dearmer, Percy / Perry, Michael Arnold (Pseudonym sometimes used: Word and Music) / Anonymous Cornish
As I went to Bethlehem
Hitchcock, Gordon
As it fell out one May morning
Christmas Carols Ancient and Modern (1833 Sandys)
As Jacob with travel was weary one day
Anonymous
As Joseph was a-walking
Ancient Mysteries Described (1823 London, Hone)
As with gladness men of old
Dix, William Chatterton
Awake and join the cheerful choir
Thomas Hardy Memorial Collection / A Collection of Dorset Carols (1926 London, Pickard-Cambridge) / Anonymous Dorset
Awake awake, ye drowsy souls
Sharp, Cecil James (Collector)
Awake from sleep, the night is spent
Micklem, Thomas Caryl
Away in a manger, no crib for a bed
Macfarland, John Thomas (questionable attribution) / Gabriel's Vineyard Songs (1892 Louisville, Gabriel) / Little Children's Book for Schools and Families (1885 Philadelphia)
Aye, and therefore be merry, rejoice and be you merry
Some Ancient Christmas Carols (1822 Gilbert)
Bearing myrrh and spices sweet
Brownlie, John (formerly Brownlee) / Anonymous Greek
Behold a silly, tender babe
Southwell, Robert
Behold a simple, tender babe
Southwell, Robert
Bethlehem's darkened city
Simpson, Kenneth W.
Blessed be that maid Marie
Woodward, George Ratcliffe / Sloane Manuscript (15th century)
Born is a baby, gentle as may be
Popular Music of the Olden Time (1853/1859 London, Chappell) / Woodward, George Ratcliffe
Brightest and best of the sons of the morning
Heber, Reginald
Child in the manger, infant of Mary
Macbean, Lachlan / Macdonald, Mary (née McDougall)
Christ is born in Bethlehem
Armstrong, Thomas Henry Wait / Anonymous Catalan
Christ is born of maiden fair
Gillington, Alice (Collector) / Anonymous Surrey
Christ is come to save mankind
Whitehead, Alfred / Anonymous Russian
Christ is now risen again
Coverdale, Miles / Wipo of Burgundy (attributed) / Anonymous German
Christ the Lord is risen today, Hallelujah!
Wesley, Charles
Christ was born on Christmas Day; wreathe
Poston, Elizabeth / Neale, John Mason / Moosburg Gradual (1355/1360)
Clean as the wind that bends the bough
Horn, Richard E.
Come, bring with a noise
Herrick, Robert (dates given are those of baptism and burial)
Come, good people, let us sing
Grimes, Gordon
Come, my way, my truth, my life
Herbert, George
Come, tune your cheerful voice
Anonymous Dorset
Come with hearts afire
Simpson, Kenneth W. / Anonymous French
Come, ye thankful people, and welcome Christ
Scott, Anne (née Conway)
Creator of the starry height
Neale, John Mason / Hymns Ancient & Modern / Anonymous Latin
Cum cantico
Epps, Jessie / Auserlesene catholische geistliche Kirchengesänge (1623 Cologne)
Dans cette étable
Cantiques Spirituels (1728 Fléchier)
Dark is the even
Simpson, Kenneth W. / Anonymous Italian
Deck the hall with boughs of holly
The Franklin Square Song Collection (1881 New York, McCaskey)
Ding dong, ding dong, ding dong, ding dong, ding dong, ding dong
Anonymous
Ding dong! merrily on high
Woodward, George Ratcliffe
Dominus, Salvator noster est
Musae Sioniae VI (1609 Praetorius)
Down in yon forest there stands a hall
Vaughan Williams, Ralph / Anonymous Derbyshire
Down with the rosemary and bays
Herrick, Robert (dates given are those of baptism and burial)
En! natus est Emanuel
Musae Sioniae VI (1609 Praetorius)
Entre le boeuf et l'âne gris
Vieux Noëls (1876 Nantes, Lemeignen)
Evermore and evermore Christians
Neale, John Mason
Eya! Jesu (Ihesus) hodie
Woodward, George Ratcliffe / Sloane Manuscript (15th century)
For joy of heart
Pickard-Cambridge, William Adair / Vetter, Georg (oka Strejc, Georg)
For the Saviour of all people
Christmas Carols Ancient and Modern (1833 Sandys)
For to redeem our souls from thrall
Some Ancient Christmas Carols (1822 Gilbert)
From heaven high I come to tell
Ane Compendious Booke of Godly and Spiritual Songs (1621 Edinburgh) / Luther, Martin
From highest heaven come, angels, come!
Anonymous English / Nie derdeotsche Geistliche Lieder (1524)
Gabriel to the Virgin came
Pickard-Cambridge, William Adair / Anonymous (fl.1922)
Gabriel's message does away
Neale, John Mason / Piae Cantiones (1582 Griefswald)
Gloomy night embraced the place
Crashaw, Richard
Gloria! Hosanna in excelsis!
Woodward, George Ratcliffe
Gloria in excelsis Deo (and adaptations)
Various
Glory to God in heights of heaven
Shewring, Walter Hayward
God bless the master of this house
Christmas Carols Ancient and Modern (1833 Sandys)
God in highest heaven, seeing
Scott, Anne (née Conway) / Anonymous French
God rest you merry, gentlemen
The Oxford Book of Carols (1928) / Christmas Carols Ancient and Modern (1833 Sandys)
God save you kindly gaffer
O'Connor, John / Anonymous Provençal
God who is our Saviour
Anonymous English
God with us, God with us, a Saviour
O'Connor, John / Musae Sioniae VI (1609 Praetorius)
Good Christian men, rejoice and sing!
Alington, Cyril Argentine
Good Christian men, rejoice with heart
Neale, John Mason / Triller, Valentin / Leipzig University MS (c.1400)
Good Joseph had a garden
Barry, Alda Marguerite Milner
Good King Wenceslas looked out
Neale, John Mason
Greetings, good master, mistress, children
Heller, Ruth
Hail, blessed virgin Mary!
Woodward, George Ratcliffe / Corona di sacre canzioni, o laude spirituali di più divoti autori (1689 Florence)
Hail, Mary full of grace, mother in
Trinity College Cambridge Library
Hail, thou ever-blessed morn
Caswall, Edward
Hark! Hark! what news the angels bring
A Good Christmas Box (1847 Dudley) / Stephenson, Joseph / Compleat Book of Psalmody (1769 Evison)
Hark, the herald-angels sing
Wesley, Charles / Whitefield, George / Madan, Martin
He who made the earth so fair
Gass, Irene / Chester MS / Benedictine Nunnery of Saint Mary, Chester
Here we come a-wassailing
Songs of the Nativity (1864 London, Husk)
High in the heavens, the angels now are singing
Hitchcock, Gordon / Anonymous German
How far is it to Bethlehem?
Chesterton, Frances (née Blogg)
I know a flower it springeth
Woodward, George Ratcliffe / Speierischen Gesangbuch (1600 Cologne)
I saw a fair maiden
Terry, Richard Runciman / Sloane Manuscript (15th century)
I saw a maiden sitting and sing
Sloane Manuscript (15th century)
I saw three ships come sailing in
Christmas Carols Ancient and Modern (1833 Sandys)
I sing of a maiden that is makeless
Sloane Manuscript (15th century)