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'''"What Child Is This?"''' is a popular [[Christmas carol]] that was written in 1865. At the age of twenty-nine, writer [[William Chatterton Dix]] was struck with a sudden near-fatal illness and confined to bedrest for several months, during which he went into a deep [[Clinical depression|depression]].{{Fact|date=December 2007}} Yet out of his [[near-death experience]], Dix wrote many [[hymns]], including ‘What Child is This?” It was later{{ |
'''"What Child Is This?"''' is a popular [[Christmas carol]] that was written in 1865. At the age of twenty-nine, writer [[William Chatterton Dix]] was struck with a sudden near-fatal illness and confined to bedrest for several months, during which he went into a deep [[Clinical depression|depression]].{{Fact|date=December 2007}} Yet out of his [[near-death experience]], Dix wrote many [[hymns]], including ‘What Child is This?” It was later {{when}} set to the [[English folk song|traditional English melody]] of "[[Greensleeves]]". |
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== Lyrics == |
== Lyrics == |
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Revision as of 05:32, 29 September 2008
"What Child Is This?" is a popular Christmas carol that was written in 1865. At the age of twenty-nine, writer William Chatterton Dix was struck with a sudden near-fatal illness and confined to bedrest for several months, during which he went into a deep depression.[citation needed] Yet out of his near-death experience, Dix wrote many hymns, including ‘What Child is This?” It was later [when?] set to the traditional English melody of "Greensleeves".
Lyrics
The lyrics exist in several variants in different books. The version below is Bowdlerized from the original, being taken from Lutheran Service Book of 2006.
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Alternative renderings and sources:
NEH: New English Hymnal (40)
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Cover Versions
Many recorded versions use the latter half of the first verse as a chorus for the other verses.[citation needed]
- Josh Groban (album "Noel") (2007)
- Sissel Kyrkjebø (album "Into Paradise") (2006)
- Sarah McLachlan (album "Wintersong") (2006)
- Third Day (album "Christmas Offerings") (2006)
- Anthony Way (album "The Choirboy's Christmas") (1996)
- San Francisco Choral Artists (album "Star of Wonder") (1993)
- Vanessa L. Williams (album "A Very Special Christmas 2") (1992)
- Garth Brooks (album "Beyond The Season") (1992)
- Kathleen Battle with Leonard Slatkin and the Orchestra of St. Luke's (album "A Christmas Celebration") (1989)
- John Rutter and the Cambridge Singers (album "Christmas with the Cambridge Singers") (1989)
- BBC Singers with James Galway (album "James Galway's Christmas Carol") (1987)
- John Denver (album "Rocky Mountain Christmas") (1975)
- Joan Sutherland with Richard Bonynge and the New Philharmonia Orchestra (album "The Joy of Christmas") (1965)
- Vince Guaraldi Trio (album "A Charlie Brown Christmas") (1965)
- Joan Baez (album "Noël") (1966)
- Donna Summer (album Christmas Spirit, as part of a medley of three carols)
- South Park on the soundtrack album Mr. Hankey's Christmas Classics, sang by Isaac Hayes as "Chef", with some lyric adjustments. (as "What the Hell Child is This")
- Mahalia Jackson
- Oslo Gospel Choir (album "The Christmas Way") (1998)
- Jag Panzer (Internet download) (2001)
- Burl Ives (album Christmas Day in the Morning) (1952)
- Trans-Siberian Orchestra