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Recording of Silent Night in English and German

  Silent Night is one of the most beloved Christmas Carols around the world.Here you can listen to a touching rendition in both German and English. Background: Silent Nightis originally a German Austrian Christmas song calledStille Nachtwhich was written as a poem by Joseph Mohr in 1816 and [...]

Listen to Christmas Music

Come get into the spirit of the Christmas holiday!  Listen to some carols below... Boar's Head Carol – Sung by Ruth Golding – Lyrics Here  I Heard the Bells by Henry W. Longfellow – Sung by Megan Kunkel – Lyrics Here Silent Night by Franz Xaver Gruber – [...]

Noche de paz – Silent Night in Spanish with an MP3 Recording

Noche de paz is the Spanish version of Silent Night. This Christmas Carol was originally written in German in 1816 by Joseph Mohr. It was called Stille Nacht. Below you can listen to Noche de paz, read the Spanish lyrics and then a literal English translation of the Spanish version. MP3 [...]

Barbershop Quartet recording of “Stille Nacht!” – “Silent Night” in German

Matt Huffman sent us this Barbershop Quartet recording of the first verse of “Stille Nacht! Heil'ge Nacht!”. It's the original version of the Christmas song, “Silent Night” – which was first written as a poem in German by Joseph Mohr in 1816. Below the mp3 recording [...]

Can Someone Help with the Pennsylvania Dutch Version of “Silent Night” ASAP?

Pastor Richard Lowe wrote: One of the members of one of the churches I pastor went to be with with the Lord suddenly and unexpectedly yesterday. He once sang the first verse of Silent Night in church in Pa Dutch. I do not remember it as the German pronunciations I had heard previously. Would [...]

“Silent Night” – A Christmas Song that's Popular around the World

Silent Night was originally a German Austrian song called Stille Nacht which was written as a poem by Joseph Mohr in 1816 and set to music by his friend Franz Gruber in 1818. John Freeman Young translated Stille Nacht into the English version called Silent Night that's so well known today. He [...]

Can Anyone Help with a Cuban Rhyme/Finger Play that starts with “Chiquitica así”?

Jeannie Backer wrote to us for help with a Cuban Finger Play. Here's her note... My mother from Cuba used to sing a song/rhyme to usthat I only partially remember, maybe you have heard something similar. It's not a song as much as a cute thing that a child says to adult to ask for

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About the Song “Cooma Lotta Veesay”

We received the note below with the song “Cooma Lotta Veesay”. Many variations of this song exist, including “Kumala Vista”. It also shares lyrics with the action song called “Flee, Fly, Flo“. Here's the email: “In the late 1950s, we lived near a [...]

Does anyone know this version of Catalina Matelina?

Dennis Lytle wrote to us asking for information about a rhyme: “Any info on the rhyme my parents taught us would be appreciated... I tell you bout vat girl of mine vat looks so sveet and dress so fine, vat come from Dootchland on the Rhine a couple of veeks ago. Her eyes are blue [...]