Can you guess the name of the Christmas carol with just a line from the song? This Christmas carols lyrics quiz will test you on 20 famous Christmas carols.
What is a Christmas carol? ‘Originally a Christmas carol referred to a piece of vocal music in carol form whose lyrics centre on the theme of Christmas or the Christmas season.’
For some, the difference between a Christmas carol and a Christmas pop song is that carols tend to be viewed as religious and pop songs as secular. But that really is a generalisation, and like many things, in culture, there are many blurred lines.
Most of these Christmas carols are traditional and date back over the last couple of hundred years.
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Christmas Carols Lyrics QuizChristmas Carols Lyrics Quiz – 20 Lyrics / Name The Carol Questions
1. ‘With angelic host proclaim, Christ is born in Bethlehem’
2. ‘The stars in the bright sky, Looked down where He lay’
3. ‘Oh tidings of comfort and joy’
4. ‘Your boughs so green in summertime, Stay bravely green in wintertime.’
5. ‘O come and behold Him, born the King of Angels’
6. ‘Oh, star of wonder, star of night, Star with royal beauty bright’
7. ‘The hopes and fears of all the years are met in thee tonight’
8. ‘On the first day of Christmas, my true love sent to me, a partridge in a pear tree’
9. ‘And heaven, and heaven and nature sing’
10. ‘When the snow lay round about, deep and crisp and even’
11. ‘Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone’
12. ‘He came down to earth from heaven, Who is God and Lord of all’
13. ‘Dashing through the snow, In a one-horse open sleigh’
14. ‘Lullay, thou little tiny child, Sleep well, lully, lullay’
15. ‘Gloria Hosanna in excelsis!’
16. ‘On Christmas night all Christians sing. To hear the news the angels bring’
17. ‘The rising of the sun, And the running of the deer’
18. ‘And all the bells on earth shall ring, On Christmas day, on Christmas day’
19. ‘Fall on your knees, Oh hear the angel voices! O night divine! O night when Christ was born’
20. ‘Peace on the earth, good will to men, From heaven’s all gracious King’
Christmas Carols Lyrics Quiz – 20 Lyrics / Name The Carol Answers
1. ‘With angelic host proclaim, Christ is born in Bethlehem’
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
2. ‘The stars in the bright sky, Looked down where He lay’
Away in a Manger
3. ‘Oh tidings of comfort and joy’
God, Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
4. ‘Your boughs so green in summertime, Stay bravely green in wintertime.’
O Christmas Tree
5. ‘O come and behold Him, born the King of Angels’
O Come All, Ye Faithful
6. ‘Oh, star of wonder, star of night, Star with royal beauty bright’
We Three Kings
7. ‘The hopes and fears of all the years are met in thee tonight’
O Little Town Of Bethlehem
8. ‘On the first day of Christmas, my true love sent to me, a partridge in a pear tree’
12 Day of Christmas
9. ‘And heaven, and heaven and nature sing’
Joy To The World
10. ‘When the snow lay round about, deep and crisp and even’
Good King Wenceslas
11. ‘Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone’
In the Bleak Midwinter
12. ‘He came down to earth from heaven, Who is God and Lord of all’
Once in Royal David’s City
13. ‘Dashing through the snow, In a one-horse open sleigh’
Jingle Bells
14. ‘Lullay, thou little tiny child, Sleep well, lully, lullay’
Coventry Carol
15. ‘Gloria Hosanna in excelsis!’
Ding Dong Merrily On High
16. ‘On Christmas night all Christians sing. To hear the news the angels bring’
Sussex Carol
17. ‘The rising of the sun, And the running of the deer’
The Holly and The Ivy
18. ‘And all the bells on earth shall ring, On Christmas day, on Christmas day’
I Saw Three Ships
19. ‘Fall on your knees, Oh hear the angel voices! O night divine! O night when Christ was born’
O Holy Night
20. ‘Peace on the earth, good will to men, From heaven’s all gracious King’
It Came Upon a Midnight Clear
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