For many years, While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks By Night was the only text that could be set to music for in the Church of England, which is why there are so many tunes for it 🐑 🐏 🐑

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Chris Fonnesbeck · @fonnesbeck
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"This boy is ignorance this girl is want. Beware them both, but most of all beware this boy."

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Chris Fonnesbeck · @fonnesbeck
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"Come, touch my robe"

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Chris Fonnesbeck · @fonnesbeck
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There's more of gravy than of grave in you.

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Chris Fonnesbeck · @fonnesbeck
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Old Marley was as dead as a doornail.

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Lucy Brewer · @Lucy_Brewer
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Christmas carol - An under discussed baddie is surely Fred. He’s all “come over to mine uncle”, but then actually is going round and taking the piss out of him behind his back. The true evil of the story.

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There's also a version of "A Christmas Carol" with Patrick Stewart. It's from 1999, which I guess makes it a turn of the century TV film.

Patrick Stewart did "A Christmas Carol" as a one man show on Broadway, and in London, and the TV film was made following that run.


nytimes.com/1992/12/18/theater

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GregNieuws · @GregNieuws
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Singing the first and last lines of "Holly Jolly Christmas" on repeat because they're the only ones i know

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We often take Christmas carols at face value. But at least one holiday favorite, “Do You Hear What I Hear,” contains more than what first meets the ear.
thebulletin.org/2022/12/do-you

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finally with some music - this somewhat extra but wonderful take on 'Do You Hear What I Hear' by Elphaba/Elsa herself, Idina Menzel:

youtu.be/I68fec72t00

The song dates from 1962, a yearning hope for following the .

#earWormOfTheDay #IWokeUpLikeThis #christmas #peace #cubanmissilecrisis #1960s #sixties #coldwar #Song #ChristmasCarol

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Savinien · @savinien
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finally with some music - this somewhat extra but wonderful take on 'Do You Hear What I Hear' by Elphaba/Elsa herself, Idina Menzel:

youtu.be/I68fec72t00

The song dates from 1962, a yearning hope for following the .

#earWormOfTheDay #IWokeUpLikeThis #christmas #peace #cubanmissilecrisis #1960s #sixties #coldwar #Song #ChristmasCarol

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Savinien · @savinien
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@andthisismrspeacock

Scrooge never painted out Old Marley’s name. There it stood, years afterwards, above the warehouse door: Scrooge and Marley. The firm was known as Scrooge and Marley. Sometimes people new to the business called Scrooge Scrooge, and sometimes Marley, but he answered to both names. It was all the same to him.

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Savinien · @savinien
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You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a door-nail.

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Jared · @jareda
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It’s officially here.

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that when has Scrooge making "a perfect Laocoön of himself with his stockings" at the end of he was referring to a mythical Trojan priest who was attacked by snakes

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laoco%C3

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matty of salisbury · @matty
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Listening to A Christmas Carol on the bus.

I remember Ian McMillan, possibly, on telly, saying you could 'pick any page' of Jane Austen and there would be something good.

It feels like every other line of has something brilliant

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