Christmas on 6 Hole Ocarina Tabs

Abide with Me; 'Tis Eventide

Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

About Abide with Me; ‘Tis Eventide
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This is a 19th-century evening hymn, sung widely in Latter-day Saint congregations. The words are usually credited to M. Lowrie Hofford and the tune to Harrison Millard. Its scene is the road to Emmaus in Luke’s gospel, where two travelers ask a stranger to stay with them as night falls, so the “eventide” of the title is both the close of day and a quiet plea for company.

Auld Lang Syne

Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

About Auld Lang Syne
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Most people meet this song once a year, at the stroke of midnight on New Year’s Eve, often unsure what the Scots title means. It runs close to “old long since,” or the days gone by. Robert Burns set the words down in 1788 and said he took them from an old man’s singing, so the piece sits somewhere between a folk survival and Burns’s own hand. The melody is an old Scottish air.

Away in a Manger

Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

About Away in a Manger
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For years this carol was printed as “Luther’s Cradle Hymn,” on the belief that Martin Luther wrote it for his children. That story does not hold up. The text is American and first appeared in print in the late 1880s, its author unknown. Two tunes still compete for it, one by James Murray and a smoother one by William Kirkpatrick, and you will hear both in churches today.

Deck the Halls

Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

About Deck the Halls
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The tune is Welsh and older than the words we sing over it. It comes from “Nos Galan,” a New Year’s Eve melody, and the looping “fa la la” lines are thought to stand in for a harp that once answered each sung phrase. The cheerful English lyrics are much later, added in the 19th century.

Feliz Navidad

Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

About Feliz Navidad
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Jose Feliciano wrote this in 1970, and it has been on the radio every December since. The Puerto Rican singer built it from a handful of words in Spanish and one plain wish in English, wanting a Christmas song that both sides of his audience could sing together. There is not much more to the lyric, which is part of why it sticks.

Frosty the Snowman

Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

About Frosty the Snowman
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This one is not a carol at all but a novelty pop song, written in 1950 by Walter Rollins and Steve Nelson and first recorded by Gene Autry, who was fresh off his hit with “Rudolph.” The writers wanted to catch the same lightning twice, and a snowman who comes to life for a day did the trick.

Hark the Herald Angels Sing

Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

About Hark the Herald Angels Sing
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Charles Wesley wrote these words in 1739, and they were slower and more solemn than the carol we know. The bright tune came a century later, lifted from a Mendelssohn cantata written to honor the printing press, and fitted to Wesley’s text by William Cummings in 1855. The two halves have traveled together ever since, a match Wesley himself might not have approved.

I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day

Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

About I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day
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The words began as a poem, “Christmas Bells,” written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in 1863. He wrote in a dark year, with the country at war and his own family struck by grief, and the lines move from despair to the sound of Christmas bells insisting that peace is not dead. The tune most singers use was added later by John Baptiste Calkin.

Oh Christmas Tree

Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

About Oh Christmas Tree
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Behind the English title stands “O Tannenbaum,” a German song whose melody is an old folk tune. The best-known words were written by Ernst Anschutz in 1824, building on an earlier verse, and at first the song was not about Christmas at all but about the fir tree as a faithful, evergreen symbol. Only later did it settle into the holiday.

We Three Kings of Orient Are

Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

About We Three Kings of Orient Are
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Unlike many carols, this one has a clear author. John Henry Hopkins Jr., an American clergyman, wrote both words and music around 1857 for a family Christmas pageant. It follows the Magi and their gifts, and it is one of the few widely sung carols centered on Epiphany rather than the manger.

Christmas on 6 Hole Ocarina Tabs

Abide with Me; 'Tis Eventide

About Abide with Me; ‘Tis Eventide #

Auld Lang Syne

About Auld Lang Syne #

Away in a Manger

About Away in a Manger #

Deck the Halls

About Deck the Halls #

Feliz Navidad

About Feliz Navidad #

Frosty the Snowman

About Frosty the Snowman #

Hark the Herald Angels Sing

About Hark the Herald Angels Sing #

I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day

About I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day #

Oh Christmas Tree

About Oh Christmas Tree #

We Three Kings of Orient Are

About We Three Kings of Orient Are #

About Abide with Me; ‘Tis Eventide
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About Auld Lang Syne
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About Away in a Manger
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About Deck the Halls
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About Feliz Navidad
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About Frosty the Snowman
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About Hark the Herald Angels Sing
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About I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day
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About Oh Christmas Tree
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About We Three Kings of Orient Are
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