In part for voice and piano; in part for chorus (SATB); words in English or in the original languages with English translations.

Includes chord symbols for chord organs, accordions, guitars, ukuleles, and other fretted instruments.

"This book ... offers 164 carols from all sections of the Western world."

Reprint of the 1963 ed. published by Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.

We wish you a merry Christmas -- Good Christian men, rejoice -- The seven joys of Mary -- This endris night -- Good King Wenceslas -- God rest you merry, glentlemen -- Coventry carol -- When Christ was born of Mary free -- The holly and the ivy -- The friendly beasts -- The first Nowell -- Joy to the world -- What child is this? -- While shepherds watched their flocks -- Gloucestershire wassail -- The boar's head carol -- Wassail song -- The twelve days of Christmas -- On Christmas night (Sussex carol) -- Blessed be that Maid Marie -- A virgin unspotted -- Once in royal David's city -- Sleep, holy babe -- Hark! The herald angels sing -- As with gladness men of old -- Angels from the realms of glory -- Masters in this hall -- I saw three ships -- Deck the hall with boughs of holly -- The snow lay on the ground -- Baloo lammy -- I heard the bells on Christmas Day -- All my heart this night rejoices -- Away in a manger -- There's a song in the air -- It came upon the midnight clear -- O little town of Bethlehem -- Everywhere, everywhere, Christmas tonight -- We three kings of Orient are -- Gather around the Christmas tree -- Jingle bells -- Up on the housetop -- Jolly old Saint Nicholas -- The winter moon shone cold and clear -- Behold that star -- Rise up, shepherd, and follow -- Children, go where I send thee -- Mary had a baby -- Go tell it on the mountain -- O po' little Jesus -- Hush, my babe, lie still and slumber -- Brightest and best (Star of the East) -- Celebrons la naissance (We sing in celebration) -- Il est ne, le divin Enfant (He is born, the holy child) -- Les anges dans no campagnes (Angels o'er the fields were singing) -- Quittez, pasteurs (O come away, ye shepherds) -- Le sommeil de l'Enfant Jesus (The sleep of the Infant Jesus) -- Quelle est cette odeur agreable? (What is this perfume so appealing?) -- Quoi, ma voisine, es-tu fachee? (Neighbor, what has you so excited? -- Cantique de Noel (O holy night)-- Pat-a-pan -- Ballade de Jesus-Christ -- Quoique soyez petit encore (Although you still are weak and helpless) -- Noel nouvelet (Christmas comes anew) -- Dors, ma colombe (Sleep, little dove) -- Berger, secoue ton sommeil profond (Shepherd, shake off your drowsy sleep) -- Noel des ausels (Whence comes this rush of wings afar?) -- La marche des Rois (March of the kings) -- Un flambeau, Jeannette, Isabelle (Bring a torch, Jeannette, Isabella) -- Touro-louro-louro -- D'ou viens-tu, bergere? (Whence art thou, my maiden?) -- O du frohliche (O how joyfully) -- O tannenbaum (O Christmas tree) -- Kling, glockhen (Ring, little bells) -- Ihr kinderlein, kommet (O come, little children) -- Zu Bethlehem geboren (In Bethlehem so lowly) -- Als ich bei meinen schafen wacht (While by my sheep) -- Josef, lieber Josef mein (Joseph, dearest Joseph mine) -- Am Weihnachtsbaum die Lichter brennen (The Christmas tree with its candles gleaming) -- Susani -- O laufet ihr hirten (Come running, you shepherds) -- Wiegenlied der hirten (Shepherds' cradle song) -- Lieb nachtigall, wach auf (Dear nightingale, awake) ...