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This page was originally created for the Uke Gatherings of North Alabama Ukulele Christmas Party 2019
which was held at the Stones Throw Condos Clubhouse, Huntsville, AL, Saturday, December 7, 2019.
There's lots of good music at the Ukulele Band of Alabama website, including lots of Christmas music.
All submissions are also listed in the alphabetical song section, below.
Any
music posted on this website is not to be used for any kind of financial gain.
All song
sheets are for personal and educational purposes only.
Please respect the owner's copyright.
Additional versions plus
notes can be found for many of these hymns and carols.
For more information, see
The Hymns and Carols of Christmas.
2022
December 12 - 3:25 pm
A room has been secured for a special practice for the Dec. 21st performance. We'll meet this Wednesday, December 14th, from 1:00-2:30 pm. We'll be in the Huntsville Library on the 2nd floor but not in the Activities Room where we usually meet. Instead, we'll be in the Library Foundation Room which is located on the right-hand side of the second floor.
Here are the updated playlists for our Wednesday, Dec. 14, rehearsal at the Library. Numerous minor changes have been made to the songsheets, and the order of songs has changed. The word processing documents and individual PDF files are also available.
Please let me know immediately if you find any error or discrepancy so that corrections can be published to everyone before the rehearsal on Wednesday or our Zoom Jam on Sunday, Dec. 18.
This Playlist will be emailed to everyone in the next few minutes. If you did not receive a copy by email, please let me know so that the mailing list can be updated.
December 10
Here is an updated playlist for the Dec. 21 performance. The number of songs has been reduced pending further editing. This is the playlist we will use tomorrow during our rehearsal at the Library (2nd Floor Activities Room, 2:00 - 3:30 pm). If there are any additional songs, they will be emailed to the group and posted here.
December 6 - 10:45 am
The updated Playlist for the Dec. 21 performance is now available. Numerous changes were made but most were minor. A Change Log is being posted to help you "keep track of the players." Finally, compressed files of the PDF files and of the word processing files are also available.
See you tomorrow at the Huntsville Senior Center (1 pm - 2:30 pm).
Plus the two items posted earlier:
December 6 - 6:45 am
As promised, "Christmas in Dixie" in five different keys. We'll decide on a performance key on Wednesday at the Senior Center. FYI, in our Christmas Songbook, the 'group preferred key' is the key of C. It would probably be a good idea to listen to the song first and then try out the various keys.
The worksheet with YouTube links, tempo, and time signatures has been updated. No guarantees but it's the best shot at this time. Let me know if you come up with better information.
Work is progressing on updated song sheets for the Dec. 21 performance. Updated song sheets will be posted as soon as possible.
December 2
Additional changes have been made to the Christmas Playlist for Dec. 21, and more changes are possible. If you print this playlist, I'd recommend printing on one side of the page rather than double-sided printing. This is the version that we will go with on Sunday during our Zoom Jam, although additional individual sheets may become available.
On Dec. 21, we will be playing at:
First United Methodist Church,
Fellowship Hall
120 Greene St SE
Huntsville, AL
35801
We begin playing at 10 am; please arrive by 9:30.
November 20
Changes made to many of the song sheets to get them in line with the versions played by the Hula Strummers. Additional songs are pending. I'm sorry that I wasn't able to get these out yesterday morning; I was a bit under the weather yesterday.
November 14
Here's the playlist for the Senior Center ukulele group and the UkeQuestors for the next couple of weeks as we prepare to play at the ARC of Huntsville on Dec. 21 with Kirk. Additional songs will be added later (as Christmas Playlist #2).
And here is a separate copy of the only song not currently in the Christmas Songbook:
January 25
New additions for the Christmas Songbook (but not yet added to the Songbooks above):
White Christmas 2 (C F G) - With the often-omitted introduction. Not included in the Songbook.
2021
Dec. 23
Here is an updated "Display Edition" of the Christmas Songbook 2021, plus updated compressed files of all songs, and the Table of Contents.
Christmas Songbook 2021_Display Edition_Paged_2021-12-23.pdf
Christmas Songbook 2021_Tables of Contents - Display Edition_2021-12-23.pdf
We have one updated song and eight new songs:
C 126_Happy Holiday-Come To Holiday Inn Medley (C F G)_2021-12-12.pdf
C 130_What Are You Doing New Years Eve (C F G)_2021-12-22.pdf
C 131_I’ve Got My Love To Keep Me Warm (C & G)_2021-11-01.pdf
This compressed file contains PDF and word processing files for the updated and new songs: Updates_Dec 22-23 2021.zip
Dec. 17
Here is an updated "Display Edition" of the Christmas Songbook 2021, plus updated compressed files of all songs. The only new song is Let's Start The New Year Right (C F G) which has been given number C 76 (replacing the Thanksgiving version of "Over The River"). There are 14 updated songs in this edition.
Individual songs that have been updated since Dec. 12:
Dec. 12 - 10 am
Some additional updates plus two new songs for this afternoon:
Here are all the songs in PDF, Microsoft Word, and OpenDocument formats:
Several of the songs use an opening based on the first line of "Jingle Bells." Here are tabs in the keys of C and G (key of F is pending):
Update of individual entries below is completed (10:45 am). The updated songs are:
C 072_It’s Beginning to Look A Lot Like Christmas (C F & G)_2021-12-10.pdf
C 073_It's The Most Wonderful Time of the Year - Ver. 2 (C F & G)_2021-12-11.pdf
C 086_There's a Santa Who Looks a Lot like Elvis_(C F & G)_2021-12-10.pdf
C 108_Christ Was Born On Christmas Day (C F & G)_2021-12-11.pdf
Dec. 9
All of the songs except one now have song sheets in at least two keys. I'm cutting short my work for this week due to the possibility of strong to severe storms early Saturday as well as holiday-related tasks around the house. Here are the updated files for this Sunday (subject to some individual corrections and updates).
Christmas Songbook 2021_Display Edition_Paged_2021-12-09.pdf (123 Songs - 285 Pages)
Christmas Songbook 2021_Display Edition_Cover & Contents.pdf
Christmas Songbook 2021_DOCX-ODT_2021-12-09.zip (probably not complete)
There are also two new songs:
Individual song titles (below) have been updated.
Dec. 5 - 11:15 am
17 songs have been updated since Friday morning. The individual songs have been encorporated into the latest "Display Edition" of the 2021 Christmas Songbook. Several song sheets have the corrections noted last Sunday. Here are those song sheets are in a compressed file: Addendum 03.zip
And here is the updated "Display Edition" for today plus a separate Table of Contents:
Dec. 2
Here are the updated files for this coming Sunday. All of the existing and updated song sheets are in this Display Edition of the Christmas Songbook 2021. Updated files are added at the end of the document; the Tables of Contents have been updated to display the page number of all songs.
Addendum 1 and Addendum 2 updates are available separately. The PDF documents both have Tables of Contents which are also available as single sheets. Also, there are compressed files containing all new and updated song sheets.
Addendum 1 Files (Nov. 28 - 13 songs)
Addendum 2 Files (Dec. 2 - 12 songs)
Links to individual songs from the Songbook (listed below) have been updated as well.
There may be a couple more new or updated song sheets posted before Sunday and if so, I'll make an announcement on Facebook.
Nov. 28
A dozen updated songs plus one new song (C118,_Joseph Dearest, Joseph Mine), together with individual PDF and word processing files in zipped files. Enjoy
Also, the compressed PDF and word processing files for the main body of songs that have been updated and posted on Nov. 26:
Nov. 26. 9:20 am.
Updated Christmas Songbooks for 2021 are now available. They will be used for the first time on Sunday, Nov. 28, during the weekly UkeQuestors Zoom (2:00 to 3:30 pm, Central Time). The "paged" editions have the page number printed at the top center of each page.
I'm also posting separate "Cover and Contents" documents that have the page numbers where songs are located in the Display and Print editions (they are different).
I expect additions and changes to the Songbooks as the Christmas season progresses. Updated files will be posted on Friday of each week with an announcement posted to respective Facebook pages. Individual song files have not yet been updated.
Christmas Songbook 2021_Display Edition_Paged_(2021-11-25_1336)
Christmas Songbook 2021_Print Edition_Paged_(2021-11-25_1338)
The "Cover and Contents" documents for both editions with page numbers:
Christmas Songbook 2021_Display Edition_Cover & Contents_Page Numbers_(2021-11-25)
Christmas Songbook 2021_Print Edition_Cover & Contents_Page Numbers_(2021-11-24)
Finally, here are the original lyrics of "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" before they were re-written for the 1944 Judy Garland movie "Meet Me in St. Louis."
Frank Sinatra's 1957 version with modified lyrics is now in the Songbook; Sinatra had asked lyricist Hugh Martin to "jolly up" the song for a planned LP.
Members of both the Tennessee Valley Ukulele Club and the UkeQuestors are invited to attend. Please do not share the Zoom link or password on public Internet pages but feel free to invite friends who are not members.
2020
Dec. 29 - 10:30 am
The mystery of the missing edits to the "Christmas Songbook 2020" has been solved. Although there is still some work to do on this document, here is the updated Songbook, both in Print and Display formats:
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Christmas Songbooks
Bytown Ukulele Group 1 - BUG Christmas Book 1 (2011, 38 Pages).pdf
Bytown Ukulele Group 2 - Jolly Holliday Night (2012, 93 Pages).pdf
Bytown Ukulele Group 3 - Ho Ho Holiday Night (2013, 119 Pages).pdf
Bytown Ukulele Group 4 - Jingle Bell Jam! Night (2014, 147 Pages).pdf
Bytown Ukulele Group 5 - Holly Jolly BUG Jam (2015, 163 Pages).pdf
Bytown Ukulele Group 6 - Ho Ho Holiday BUG Jam (2016, 198 Pages).pdf
Bytown Ukulele Group 7 - Jingle Bell BUG Jam (2017, 79 Pages).pdf
Cynthia Lin's Beginner's Holiday Songbook for 2020
Doug Anderson's_Victorian_Carol_Book (2004).pdf. And see his over 4,300 Christmas songs at The Hymns and Carols of Christmas. Note that Doug sold this site in 2014 due to ill health; the new owner has added a lot of advertising.
HUG (Halifax Ukulele Gang) Songbook - Yuletide Strum Edition (2015).pdf
SUPA (Seattle Ukulele Players Association)_Holiday_Songbook_2008.pdf
The TVUC Christmas Songbook (version 1.2.3.b) (Oct. 2019; two-line format with chord charts; updated Nov. 22, 2019)
Vancouver Ukulele Circle Winter Holiday-Christmas Songbook VUC Dec2004 (1).pdf
Vancouver Ukulele Circle Winter Holiday-Christmas Songbook VUC Dec2004.pdf
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Individual Christmas Songs
Links to
sections with individual carols or hymns.
Also remember that you can search for
text (Ctrl + F in MS Windows; varies by operating system)
Updated Christmas Songs from the Christmas Songbook 2021 have the keys that the song occurs in and the song number (i.e., "C 121) following the title.
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Deck the Halls (C & F) (C 4) Deck The Halls - Jim's Christmas Songbook 2017.pdf Deck the Halls - San Jose Uke Club v5b.pdf Deck The Halls - G - Holiday Songs For The Ukulele.pdf Deck The Halls - Monterey_Uke_Club.pdf
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Deck the Halls by Danny Kaye Deck the Halls by Mormon Tabernacle Choir Deck the Halls by Rolando Villazón & the Mormon Tabernacle Choir Deck the Halls by Mannheim Steamroller |
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Ding Dong Merrily On High - Jim's Christmas Songbook 2017.pdf
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Do They Know It's Christmas - Jim's Christmas Songbook 2017.pdf Do They Know It's Christmas - Ukulele Wednesdays.pdf
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Do You Hear What I Hear (C F G) (C 28)
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Do You Hear What I Hear? by the Harry Simeone Chorale |
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Dreydl Song - C - Holiday Songs For The Ukulele.pdf
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Driving Home For Christmas - Jim's Christmas Songbook 2017.pdf
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God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (Am & Em) (C 6) God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen - Songs to Celebrate the Season.pdf
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God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen by Bing Crosby (1942) God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen by Mariah Carey (1994) God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen by Manheim Steamroller (1984) |
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Good King Wenceslas (C & G) (C 61) |
Good King Wenceslas by Bing Crosby Good King Wenceslas by The Ames Brothers Good King Wenceslas by Jane Seymore and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir |
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Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer (C & G) (C 7) Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer - Elmo & Patsy_ Jim's Ukulele Songbook.pdf Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer - Songs to Celebrate the Season.pdf
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Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer by Elmo and Patsy Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer by The Irish Rovers |
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Kani Ka Pele (Hawaiian Jingle Bells) by The Hawaii Calls Orchestra & Chorus from "A Merry Hawaiian Christmas" |
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Night Of Silence - Monterey_Uke_Club.pdf
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No Mo’ Christmas Blues - C & G_TVUC-v123.pdf
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No Mo’ Christmas Blues by Frank De Lima and Honolulu Boy Choir from "Hawai'i's Favorite Christmas Songs" |
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Pat-A-Pan (Am Dm Em) ["Willie Get Your Little Drum"] (C 128)
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Please Come Home for Christmas - San Jose Uke Club v2b.pdf
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Up on the House Top (C & G) (C 35) |
Up On The House Top by Gene Autry Up On The House Top by Reba McEntire Up On The House Top by Pentatonix |
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4 versions of "We Wish You A Merry Christmas (Why Can't We Have Christmas The Whole Year Around)." |
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We Wish You A Merry Christmas by The Weavers |
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We Wish You A Merry Christmas by The Kingston Trio from their LP "The Last Month of the Year." |
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We Wish You A Merry Christmas by The Kingston Trio from their LP "The Last Month of the Year." |
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We Wish You A Merry Christmas by Peter, Paul and Mary |
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What Child Is This (Am & Em) (C 93) |
What Child Is This? by Charlotte Church (Dormition Abbey 2000) What Child Is This? by Celtic Woman What Child Is This? by Josh Groban What Child Is This? by Mahalia Jackson What Child Is This? by Carrie Underwood |
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You Become Someone Else for the Holidays. (C & G) (C95). This is the Nexium™ parody of “There’s No Place Like Home for The Holidays”
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You're A Mean One, Mr. Grinch (C & G) (C 83) |
You're A Mean One, Mr. Grinch by Thurl Ravenscroft from "How The Grinch Stole Christmas" (1966) |
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Zat You, Santa Claus (Am & Em) (C 100)
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Notes concerning "The Coventry Carol"
This hymn commemorates the Massacre of the Innocents, whose feast day is Dec. 28 in several Western churches (although it varies for other churches).
The author is unknown; the oldest known text was written down by Robert Croo in 1534, and the oldest known setting of the melody dates from 1591.
This incident is recounted in the nativity narrative of the Gospel of Matthew 2:16–18 in which Herod the Great, king of Judea, orders the execution of all male children two years old and under in the vicinity of Bethlehem. They were considered the first martyrs of the Christian church.
Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently inquired of the wise men. Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet, saying,
"In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not."
The citation is to Jeremiah 31:15. Source: Matthew 2:16–18, King James Version.
For more information, see The Coventry Carol, Wikipedia; The Coventry Carol (Sharp, 1825), The Hymns and Carols of Christmas; Notes to The Coventry Carol, The Hymns and Carols of Christmas. And see generally The Hymns Of The Holy Innocents, The Hymns and Carols of Christmas.
Notes concerning "Lo, How A Rose E'er Blooming"
This traditional Advent carol would be an excellent start to any Christmas Eve or Christmas Day service: Lo, How A Rose E’er Blooming (in C & G). It is based on a 15th century anonymous German hymn "Es ist ein Ros entsprungen", translated by Theodore Baker (1894) and Harriet Reynolds Kraugh (1875). The tune is "Es Ist Ein Ros" (1599), harmonization by Michael Praetorius (1609). And check out this version from the Ukulele Band of Alabama website, Lo, How A Rose E'er Blooming.
The sheet music from O. Hardwig, ed., The Wartburg Hymnal (Chicago: Wartburg Publishing House, 1918), #95
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