Once in Royal David's City is the official Christmas Has Begun carol, at least if your Christmas begins with turning on Radio 4 at 3pm on Christmas Eve. Sussex Carol is my favourite to sing. Unto Us Is Born A Son is fun too.
My least favourite traditional carol is Silent Night, because it so often drags on and on and on. And as I have a seven-year-old, anything with a joke set of words is driving me nuts right now, because at a certain age nothing is more hilarious than belting out 'While shepherds washed their socks by night' and after the twenty-third time I've really had enough. Though I have to forgive him because he's also learned a lovely descant for the final verse of O Little Town of Bethlehem and memorised all the words.
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My least favourite traditional carol is Silent Night, because it so often drags on and on and on. And as I have a seven-year-old, anything with a joke set of words is driving me nuts right now, because at a certain age nothing is more hilarious than belting out 'While shepherds washed their socks by night' and after the twenty-third time I've really had enough. Though I have to forgive him because he's also learned a lovely descant for the final verse of O Little Town of Bethlehem and memorised all the words.