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Top 10 Christmas Carols (Devotional)

We know you have your favorites...go ahead and compare them to ours! Our editors and site visitors have compiled the top 10 Christmas songs below.

1 - "O Come All Ye Faithful"
The thrice-repeated line "O come let us adore him" mirrors the spirit of awaiting and arrival by starting as a faint beckoning, then ending as a triumphant shout of praise.

2 - "O Holy Night"
Stirring, melodic, slow and patient. A tour de force for any great singer, such as opera's Robert Merrill.

3 - "O Little Town of Bethlehem"
Expresses, as well as any other tune, the sense of birth as the small, quiet beginning of life's great adventure.

4 - "Silent Night"
Loved by all ages...the sleeping "holy infant, so tender and mild," whose adventures and triumphs can wait for another day while he rests his human form.

5 - "Angels From the Realms of Glory"
This is such an important occasion that everybody's got to start singing about it, and not just here on Earth. A rousing, upbeat anthem.

6 - "Do You Hear What I Hear?"
As Jesus descended from the heavens into a tiny human baby's body, so this song starts by telling of a star "dancing in the night/With a tail as big as a kite," then, verse by verse, leads us to "The Child, the Child, sleeping in the night."

7 - "Go Tell It On the Mountain"The African-American gospel-music tradition at its most exhorted.

8 - "Joy To the World"Loud, strong, unabashed praise. "
Repeat the sounding joy!"

9 - "What Child Is This"
Usually sung to the elegant British folk tune "Greensleeves," a solemn message of assurance and proclaimation: "This, This is Christ the King."

10 - "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day"
A reminder to all who find the world's not quite gotten to "Peace on Earth" that there's still hope as long as "The old familiar carols play."

For more great Christmas Tunes, visit Casey Kasem's Presents !