Caroling

[Carborendum]

So a friend invited a bunch of families over for caroling.  We practiced a bunch yesterday and we'll be going caroling in open air on Wed night.

I found it a bit uncomfortable because I knew different songs than the rest of the group.  We all sang most of the Religious carols in the Hymnal.  But when we got to the secular carols, I found that everyone wanted to sing the kids songs.  No one seemed to know the silver age cinematic carols.  And those are my favorites.

The Christmas Song
It's Beginning To Look a Lot Like Christmas
Silver Bells
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
Little Drummer Boy
Do You Hear What I Hear?

They'd heard of them.  But no one knew the lyrics.  A lot of them didn't know the whole tunes.  Am I really that old?

[Jane_Doe]

3 hours ago, Carborendum said:

So a friend invited a bunch of families over for caroling.  We practiced a bunch yesterday and we'll be going caroling in open air on Wed night.

I found it a bit uncomfortable because I knew different songs than the rest of the group.  We all sang most of the Religious carols in the Hymnal.  But when we got to the secular carols, I found that everyone wanted to sing the kids songs.  No one seemed to know the silver age cinematic carols.  And those are my favorites.

The Christmas Song
It's Beginning To Look a Lot Like Christmas
Silver Bells
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
Little Drummer Boy
Do You Hear What I Hear?

They'd heard of them.  But no one knew the lyrics.  A lot of them didn't know the whole tunes.  Am I really that old?

I’m in my 30’s and not only do I know each of those, they played on my computer TODAY.

[Fether]

I know those songs, but besides the main lines in them, I couldn’t sing them. 
 

I do love Christmas, but I do not like the Christmas songs so I have never made much of an attempt to learn them.

[dprh]

I know those songs, and can sing along if they're playing.  But those songs don't seem built for caroling .  They are more complex and longer than the songs that are popular with the people I've caroled with.

[Jamie123]

Christmas Carol Joke (to make you groan):

How does Good King Wenceslas like his pizza?

Deep and crisp and even!

 

 

 

[NeuroTypical]

3 hours ago, Jamie123 said:

Deep and crisp and even!

Me: [Tells that joke.]
My wife: "What the heck is wrong with you?"