Silent night, holy night!

[Zebra]

is it known worldwide?

So I ha read.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

is it known worldwide?

So I ha read.

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Yes, it's very much a favorite in America!

There's a very famous WW1 story of how a German soldier caused a brief truce when he stood up and sang the song during battle.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/how-silent-night-became-the-christmas-song-that-stopped-world-war-i-1.2878263

 

[Zebra]

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Yes, it's very much a favorite in America!

There's a very famous WW1 story of how a German soldier caused a brief truce when he stood up and sang the song during battle.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/how-silent-night-became-the-christmas-song-that-stopped-world-war-i-1.2878263

Yes, that was the famous Christmas truce in 1914

 

[SweetSue92]

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Yes, it's very much a favorite in America!

There's a very famous WW1 story of how a German soldier caused a brief truce when he stood up and sang the song during battle.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/how-silent-night-became-the-christmas-song-that-stopped-world-war-i-1.2878263

It was also an "accidental" Christmas song, the lore says it was written because of a last minute switch at the church. Some songs have a certain "magic" about them....this is one. So simple. Just three chords. But there's something about it....

We always end the Christmas Eve service with Silent Night. One year our pastor said, hey what we doing? Kind of a sad song. So we ended with "Go Tell It On the Mountain".....and I thought people would RIOT. HA Pastor said he had so many complaints he never switched it again

 

[Zebra]

It was also an "accidental" Christmas song, the lore says it was written because of a last minute switch at the church. Some songs have a certain "magic" about them....this is one. So simple. Just three chords. But there's something about it....

We always end the Christmas Eve service with Silent Night. One year our pastor said, hey what we doing? Kind of a sad song. So we ended with "Go Tell It On the Mountain".....and I thought people would RIOT. HA Pastor said he had so many complaints he never switched it again

The organ was broken, so they invented a song for the guitar …
So the legend goes ….

 

[Zebra]

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Yes, it's very much a favorite in America!

There's a very famous WW1 story of how a German soldier caused a brief truce when he stood up and sang the song during battle.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/how-silent-night-became-the-christmas-song-that-stopped-world-war-i-1.2878263

And the name of that soldier is known: Walter Kirchhoff