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Crazy Christmas Songs


Published: Fri, 01 Dec 2006 00:04:00 -0500

What is the common name of each of these well-known Christmas songs?  The answers are at the end, but, before you read them, have fun trying to figure out what these titles are talking about.  Print it off, share it at Christmas parties, discuss it at the dinner table, and impress others with your knowledge!

1. Advance hitherward the entire assembly of those who are loyal in their belief.

2. Listen!  The celestial harbingers produce harmonious sounds.

3. Nocturnal hours whose stillness is unbroken.

4. An emotion excited by the acquisition of the expectation of good bequeathed to the terrestrial sphere.

5. Adorn the buildings.

6. Ethereal beings to whom we have harkened.

7. During the nocturnal hours when guardians of ovine quadrupeds survey their charges.

8. Twelve o'clock on a clement night when witnessed its arrival.

9. The Christmas preceeding all others.

10. Small municipality in Judea southwest of Jerusalem.

11. I observed the Bishop of Myra osculating with my maternal parent.

12. The supreme being gives respite to the jocund group of well-bred men of fine feeling and social position.

13. We are the third cardinal number of male sovereigns of the countries of Asia.

14. Spatially and temporally removed in a feed box.

15. A juvenile dance based on the hollow metallic vessel that resonates with a fine sharp continued clinking.

16. The patron saint of Russia is approaching our metropolis.

17. The animal of the genus rengifer with a scarlet olfactory organ.

18. Hollow cuplike metal objects of a lustrous grayish white hue.

19. Nativity of a light color.

20. Nocturnal hours of much reverence.

21. Minute juvenile of the male gender carrying a percussion instrument.


Answers:

1. O Come, All Ye Faithful.  2. Hark! The Herald Angels Sing.  3. Silent Night.  4. Joy to the World.  5. Deck the Halls.  6. Angels We Have Heard on High.  7. While Shepherds Watch Their Flock.  8. It Came Upon a Midnight Clear.  9. The First Noel.  10. O Little Town of Bethleham.  11. I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus.  12. God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen.  13. We Three Kings.  14. Away in a Manger.  15. Jingle Bell Rock.  16. Santa Claus Is Coming to Town.  17. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.  18. Silver Bells.  19. White Christmas.  20. O Holy Night.  21. The Little Drummer Boy.

 

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