I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day

Day three post Christmas 2019 but the Christmas Mewsic Marathon continues through the end of the month. I hope you’re not tiring of the beautiful sounds of the holiday because I’m not. Here’s Casting Crowns with ‘I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day’. Enjoy!

[tweetthis]Enjoying the sounds of #Christmas with #CastingCrowns singing ‘I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day’. #music[/tweetthis]

Thanks for joining me this Saturday. I hope y’all are having a relaxing weekend. I’ll be back tomorrow for more sounds of Christmas!

X💋X💋, Cathy

6 Comments

messymimi's meanderings

December 28, 2019 at 9:04 pm

Love the message of this song, and now that i know the history, i understand why i like it so much.

Brian Frum

December 28, 2019 at 6:50 pm

That is a pretty one!

Kinga K.

December 28, 2019 at 4:45 pm

He has such a beautiful voice <3

Alana Mautone (@RamblinGarden)

December 28, 2019 at 2:40 pm

Intriguing cover of this famous poem. Back in the 2011-2015 (150th anniversary Civil War anniversary) era when I did weekly “Civil War Sunday” posts I did a post on the Longfellow poem this song is based on. Arlee gave a nice summary so I’ll just add that I liked this cover.

Arlee Bird

December 28, 2019 at 1:36 pm

Interesting version of this song. The poem on which it is based is quite beautiful with a stirring message.

Arlee Bird
Tossing It Out

Cathy Kennedy

December 28, 2019 at 2:11 pm

Lee,

I didn’t know this song was based on poem, so I had to learn more. Wikipedia says it’s a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow who penned the words in 1863 after losing his wife in a fatal fire and then with the news that his son enlisted to fight in the Civil War. About a decade later his poem was set to mewsic by an English organist and around mid-20th century it took an additional mewsical arrangement by Johnny Marks. I wanted to listen to Marks’ version when I found this beautifully done video on YouTube…

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