Answers can't really fit into a poll. I like most Christmas carols when sung by my Morris dance group, nice and vigorously, but I often don't like the same songs when sung like dirges. (Christmas carol concerts generally sing them too slow for my taste, and far too high for my comfort.) We tend to sing well-known words to less well-known folk tunes. While Shepherds Watched to the tune of Ikley Moor is a favourite, though we also enjoy singing it to another tune, with a refrain about "sweet chiming Christmas bells." I also like Good King Wenceslas when sung by Pellinor. ("Bring me flessssh!")
Favourite seasonal song, though, is probably one no-one else will know: Summer is a coming in again, which is written (I believe) by a Hampshire folkie - though it's a solstice/generic midwinter one, rather than a Christmas one.
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Date: 2009-12-11 08:20 pm (UTC)Favourite seasonal song, though, is probably one no-one else will know: Summer is a coming in again, which is written (I believe) by a Hampshire folkie - though it's a solstice/generic midwinter one, rather than a Christmas one.