Somebody mentioned "Shepherds Rejoice" to Oxford, as in The Sacred Harp; I also like it to Billings' tune Boston, as in my hymnal. And while I'm plugging my own stuff, I should mention my Christmas/Innocents carol, In Bethlem Town, to the "Pesky Sarpent/Springfield Mountain" tune. The tune may seem a bit jaunty for the slaughter of the innocent children, but surely the same cavil applies in case of snakebite, non? And I do now have the correct tune (though not a very well sequenced MIDI of it) at Who'd Have Thought the Lord Almighty, my "sacred ballad" in memory and honour of the women of Matthew 1 (i.e. Jesus' ancestrices).

My Online Christmas Carols in Esperanto page is a useful list of much of my Christmas stuff. My general Songlist (including secular material) is in the Mudcat Links list.

There's a Chinese carol (it's in the 1990 (PCUSA) Presbyterian Hymnal (aka Hymns, Psalms and Spiritual Songs); I think also in the 1995 Episcopal Wonder Love and Praise) called something like "Sheng Yi Chen, Shen Qi Chen" (Chinese is not one of my many languages!), that is beautiful.

Liland