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A contest based on my good idea.First, let it be known that there will be only three more contests after this one until the closing of the 2002 points contest: December 10, December 17, and December 30. The winner will then be the winner, and we will start over at zeros like Kim's Camaro's odometer. So this is important. Do not mess this one up. Please.
The contest is naming the twenty best Christmas songs ever. I am not talking about versions of songs; I am talking about songs plus lyrics minus arrangements. Your answers should be in the form "The First Noel," except not lame. The list has carols both common and obscure. All but two are relative classics in that if they were people instead of songs they would be geezers or dead. Each person gets three guesses per day in whatever time zone you are in until all 20 carols have been uncovered. If you come up with a carol that is better than number 20 that I have forgotten, you get a full point rather than the typical half-point.
Go.
1: "This Little Babe" (Ed)
2: "Fum, Fum, Fum" (Kimberly)
3: "Stille Nacht (Silent Night)" (Lisa-Anne)
4:
5: Amy Grant's "Breath of Heaven (Mary's Song)" (Beth-Annie)
6: "Carol of the Birds" (Ed)
7: "Lo, How A Rose E'er Blooming" (Beth-Annie)
8: "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch" (Kimberly)
9: Michael W. Smith's "Gloria" (Ed)
10: "I Wonder as I Wander" (Beth-Annie)
11: "Bring A Torch, Jeanette, Isabella" (Kimberly)
12: "O Come, O Come, Emmanuel" (Beth-Annie)
13: "O Holy Night" (Beth-Annie)
14: "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer" (Ed)
15: "In the Bleak Midwinter" (Donna Marie Lewis)
16: "The Chipmunk Song" (Ed)
17: "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" (Beth-Annie)
18: "What Child Is This?" (Beth-Annie)
19: "Go Where I Send Thee" (Ed)
20:
Stuck between 18 and 19: Amy Grant's "Love Has Come" (moM)
Not at all right: "The First Noel," "Go Tell It on the Mountain," "Carol of the Bells," "Silver Bells," "White Christmas," "Little Drummer Boy," "All is Well," "Darcy The Dragon," "Away In A Manger," "I'll Be Home For Christmas," "Christmas Hymn" (Amy Grant's), "O Come All Ye Faithful," "The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)," "Do You Hear What I Hear," "Tennessee Christmas" (Amy Grant's), "O Little Town of Bethlehem," "Of the Father's Love Begotten," "Once in Royal David's City," "The Coventry Carol," "'Twas in the Moon of Wintertime," "We Three Kings," "Jingle Bells," "Frosty the Snowman," "Angels We Have Heard On High," "Anthem for Christmas" (Michael W. Smith's), "The Virgin Mary had a Baby Boy," "Lux Venit" (Michael W. Smith's), "Wassail," "Brightest and Best," "Mary, Did You Know," "Still, Still, Still," "All I Want For Xmas Is My Two Front Teeth," "Floating Heads," "Ding, Dong, Merrily On High," "Babe In The Straw," "The Governor's Dream," "Hark! the Herald Angels Sing," "Ave Maria"
oh so lovingly written by
Matthew