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the most famous and complete of all carol collections. This book contains 197 carols. The majority are for the Christmas season, but some are intended for Passiontide, Easter or for other seasons of the year. All but 30 have traditional carol tunes, mostly with traditional texts.

A babe is born

A child this day

A gallery carol

A new dial

A virgin most pure

Adam lay ybounden

All and some

All bells in Paradise

All in the morning

The angel Gabriel

Angels, from the realms

Angels holy

Angelus ad virginem

Anges dans nos campagnes

April

Athens

Balulalow

The band of children

Bell carol

The bellman’s song

Ben Jonson’s Carol

Bethlehem

The birds

Blake’s cradle song

Boar’s head carol

The builders

Candlemas Eve

Carnal and the Crane

Carol of beauty

Carol of service

Carol of the advent

Carol of the Kingdom

Chanticleer

The cherry tree carol

Children’s song of the Nativity

Christ the Lord is risen

Christbaum

Christmas Eve

The Christmas Tree

Come, love we God!

Congaudeat

Courons a la fete

Coventry carol

Coverdale’s Carol

The cradle

The crown of Roses

Dans cette etable

Dark the Night

The decree

Dives and Lazarus

Down in yon forest

Dutch carol

Earthly friends

Easter carol

Easter eggs

Eia, Eia

Ein Kindlein in der Wiegen

Es ist ein’ Ros’

Es kommt ein Schiff

Falan-tiding

Fesans Raijouissance

Festival carol

The first Nowell

Flemish carol

Flower carol

Furry day carol

Gabriel’s Message

The garden of Jesus

Gebor’n ist uns ein Kindelein

Gems of Day

Gen Himmel aufgefahren ist

Gloucestershire Wassail

God is ascended

God rest you merry

God’s dear son

The golden carol

Golden mornings

Golden sheaves

Good King Wenceslas

Good-bye

Grand Dieu! Que de merveilles

Green grow’th the Holly

Greensleeves

Hereford carol

Herrick’s carol

Herrick’s ode

Hilariter

The holly and the ivy

The holy well

How brightly beams

I saw three ships

I sing of a maiden

Ich weiss ein lieblich engelspiel

If ye would hear

Immortal babe

In Bethlehem, that fair city

In Dulci Jubilo

In excelsis gloria

In the town

Infinite light

Irish carol

Jacob’s ladder

January carol

Je sais, vierge Marie

Jesus of the manger

Job

Joseph and Mary

Joseph lieber, Joseph mein

Joys seven

King Herod and the cock

The kingdom

The kings

Kings in Glory

Kings of Orient

Die Konige

Laissez paitre vos betes

The lamb of God

Love is come again

Lullay my liking

Lute-book lullaby

Make we joy

Make we merry

Marias Wallfahrt

Marias Wanderschaft

Mary’s Wandering

Masters in this hall

May carol

May Day garland

The merchants’ carol

Merry Christmas

The message

Mid-Winter

The miraculous harvest

Mothering Sunday

My dancing day

New prince, new pomp

No room in the inn

Noel nouvelet

Nos Galan

Nous allons, ma mie

Nous voici dans la ville

Now glad of heart

O Jesulein suss

O little one

O little town

Our brother is born

Out of your sleep

Paean

Patapan

Personent hodie

Pleasure it is

Poverty

The praise of Christmas

Praise to God

Promptement levez-vous

Psalm of Sion

Puer Natus

Puer nobis

Quelle est cette odeur agreable?

Quem pastores

The quest

Quittez, Pasteurs

Quoi, ma voisine?

Remember

Righteous Joseph

Rocking

Rorate

Saint Stephen

The Salutation Carol

Sans Day carol

The Saviour’s work

The secret flower

The seven virgins

Shakespeare’s carol

The shepherd

Shepherds, shake off your drowsy sleep

The Sinners’ Redemption

Sion’s daughter

Sir Christemas

Snow in the street

The snow lies thick

So, brother

Somerset carol

Somerset wassail

Song of the crib

Song of the nuns of Chester

Song of the ship

Song of the spirit

Spanish carol

The spirit

Spring has come

Summer carol

Summer in winter

Summer time

Sunny bank

Susanni

Sussex Carol

Sussex mummers’ carol

Thanksgiving carol

This endris night

This new Christmas carol

Three kings

The three traitors

Torches

The truth from above

Tyrley, tyrlow

Une vaine crainte

Vermeil du soleil

The virgin’s cradle hymn

Voisin, d’ou venait?

Waking-time

Wassail song

Watts’s cradle song

Welcome, summer

Welcome Yule

Welsh carol

Wexford carol

While Shepherds watched

White lent

Wie schon leuchtet

Winter’s snow

Wir wollen alle frohlich sein

Wither’s rocking hymn

Wonder tidings

Wondrous works

The world itself

The world’s desire

Yeoman’s carol