Christmas Carol Sing-Along · Christmas
What Child Is This?
Get ready for Christmas. Practise the carols at home, in your own time, on your own or with family and friends. First hear it, then sing it.
1 Listen
Let the choir sing it to you. Follow the music and the words.
2 Sing
Now it’s your turn. The organ plays, and the gold note shows the way.
Words by William Chatterton Dix, printed around 1870. The tune, Greensleeves, is far older: a ballad of that name was registered in 1580.
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William Chatterton Dix, a Bristol-born writer of hymns, wrote these words. They are often dated 1865, but little is known of how they came to be written. They were printed around 1870 in Christmas Carols New and Old, set to Greensleeves.
More about this carolThe full lyric video and its history