Description

Just for Fun: Christmas Banjo offers a collection of over 40 timeless Christmas songs. Each piece is presented with three distinct arrangements: the melody in both standard notation and tablature, a simplified rhythm option featuring basic patterns and chords, and an intermediate rhythm arrangement that includes complete notation and tablature. The intermediate option effectively integrates the full melody with chords, making it suitable for both accompaniment and solo performances for gatherings, family events, and recitals. Additionally, the book includes a banjo chord dictionary at the end and aligns with corresponding editions for guitar, ukulele, and mandolin, facilitating family Christmas jam sessions and sing-alongs.

Songs / Content

• Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy [Op. 71a, No. 3]Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (composer)
• The Twelve Days of ChristmasTraditional (source)
• We Three Kings of Orient AreChristmas Traditional (source)
• God Rest Ye Merry, GentlemenTraditional (source)
• Away in a MangerJohn R. Murray (contributor)
• O Christmas TreeTraditional (source)
• Up on the HousetopChristmas Traditional (source)
• It Came Upon the Midnight ClearRichard S. Willis (contributor); Edmund H. Sears (lyricist)
• Jingle BellsJames Pierpont (contributor)
• Silent NightFranz Grüber (contributor)
• Joy to the WorldGeorge Frederic Handel (composer); Isaac Watts (lyricist)
• What Child Is This?William Chatterton Dix (lyricist); Traditional (source)
• I Heard the Bells on Christmas DayJ. Baptiste Calkin (contributor); Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (lyricist)
• We Wish You a Merry ChristmasTraditional (source)
• O Come, All Ye FaithfulTraditional (source)
• I Saw Three ShipsTraditional (source)
• A Child This Day Is BornTraditional (source)
• Have Yourself a Merry Little ChristmasRalph Blane (composer); Hugh Martin (lyricist)
• Deck the HallsTraditional (source)
• The Holly and the Ivy
• Auld Lang Syne
• Carol of the Birds
• Simple Gifts
• The First Noel
• Holy Night, Peaceful Night
• O Little Town of Bethlehem
• Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
• In the Bleak Midwinter
• Carol of the Bells
• Good King Wenceslaus
• Angels We Have Heard on High
• Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring
• March of the Toys (from "Babes in Toyland")
• Go Tell It on the Mountain
• Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella
• O Come, O Come, Emmanuel
• Pat-A-Pan (Burgundian)
• O Holy Night
• Here We Come A-Caroling (The Wassail Song)
• Coventry Carol