I'm pretty sure I have all but 11, 12 and 19--though I should have 19 since I know I sang it this season--my guess was that 19 was a Latin version of an earlier one. So maybe I was right.

I did sing all the others this season, I'm virtually certain.   Never sang #4 before this year. We sang it as part of a children's Christmas concert at the Kennedy Center,, during a play written for the occasion-- (the writer is from Devizes, by the way),-- and the play centered on a very famous letter written by a little girl and answered by a newspaper editor:   "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus".   Play had to do with Virginia, as a grandmother, convincing her skeptical and easlly bored grandson (narrator of the play) that Christmas was worth celebrating.

As part of the concert, each section had to stand up just before coming in with the appropriate words.    As one of the basses, I had to stand up first and sing the title of the song.    It was great fun.


Regardless of how I did, thanks so much, Nigel. for this. I love this sort of quiz--and had a better chance at this than at some of them.

I think I know 15, though in the US this is not thought of as a Christmas song. Is it in the UK?