Answers: Name Christmas Tunes

[Janet Hofstetter <JHOFSTETTER@ADMIN.CALIFORNIA.K12.MO.US>]

So many have asked for answers--a few for before the weekend--so here
they are.  Jan Boling sent me about 40 more if anyone is interested,
but I haven't had time to answer hers yet!

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Name the Christmas song suggested in each phrase below; each is a
rewording of the song's title.
Example
    Jovial yuletide desired for the second person singular or plural
by us.
   [We Wish You a Merry Christmas]

 1. Move hitherward the entire assembly of those who are loyal in
their beliefs.
    [O Come All Ye Faithful]

 2. Listen!  The celestial messengers produce harmonious sounds.
    [Hark the Herald Angels Sing]

 3. Nocturnal time span of unbroken quietness.
    [Silent Night]

 4. An emotion excited by the acquisition or expectation of good
given to the terrestrial sphere.
    [Joy to the World]

 5. Embellish the interior passageways.
    [Deck the Halls]

 6. Exalted heavenly beings to whom harkened.
    [Angels We Have Heard on High]

 7. Twelve o'clock on a clement night witnessed its arrival.
    [It Came Upon a Midnight Clear]

 8. The Christmas preceding all others.
    [The First Noel]

 9. Small municipality in Judea southeast of Jerusalem.
    [O Little Town of Bethlehem]

10. Diminutive masculine master of skin-covered percussionistic
cylinders.
    [Little Drummer Boy]

11. Omnipotent supreme who elicits respite to ecstatic distinguished
males.
    [God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen]

12. Obese personification fabricated of compressed mounds of minute
crystals.
    [Frosty the Snowman]

13. Expectation of arrival to populated area by mythical, masculine
perennial gift-giver.
    [Santa Claus Is Coming to Town]

14. Natal celebration devoid of color, rather albino as a
hallucinatory phenomenon for me.
    [I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas]

15. In awe of the nocturnal time span characterized by religiosity.
    [O Holy Night]

16. Geographic state of fantasy during the season of Mother Nature's
dormancy.
    [Winter Wonderland]
17. The first person nominative plural of a triumvirate of Far Eastern
heads of state.
    [We Three Kings]
18. Tintinnabulation of vacillating pendulums in inverted, metallic,
resonant cups.
    [Jingle Bells]

19. In a distant location the existence of an improvised unit of
newborn children's slumber furniture.
    [Away in a Manger]

20. Proceed forth declaring upon a specific geological alpine
formation.
    [Go Tell It on the Mountain]



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