This most be a Canadian narrator.Americans don't refer to their country as the states. Almost always the US or America

John Kennedy was assasinated the day the song was recorded

And after rudolph became a hit a little known company called video craft international came up with a stop motion holiday special made for TV in 1964, and that would be the classic rudolph the red nosed reindeer.

Wonderful story!

God bless you, Ron Clancy

I love these song stories

This is a great idea for a

Never knew the name of the song ever

My very favorite Christmas song and artist!

So good to see mayor bill Hughes telling the story about this beautiful child Annie Morgan singing her song “I wonder as I wander to John Jacob Nile’s this child and mother and her father who was a minister were living destitute on the street in Murphy, n.c. 1933

Beautiful ❤

Thank you for sharing

Oh I thought this was the chipmunk song aka Christmas don’t be late

One of my fav songs. Not just Xmas

I love hearing my father singing 🎶 this Carol.

Thank you for talking about this! usually stanza's 3 4 and 5 are erased to make the song more digestible to bored x-mas shoppers? It's such a lovely song. Even better whole. it's sad that it's almost always cut down. Great song < 3

This is one of my favorites. I wish this song as well as other good Christmas music was played more.

Wow fascinating story❣️ I'm glad you shared it.Thank you. It's one of my favorites! My daughter Faith sang with a USA children's choir which traveled to Rome for the Christmas gathering of all the international children's choirs, which all the countries childrens choirs sang, to Pope John Paul ll, "Adestes Fidelis" JOY TO THE WORLD in Latin. The children practiced an entire year for the first Millennium Holy Mass 🎶⛪🙏🏼🎶🎄 A soprano girl with a soft soothing voice sang I wonder as I wander in a church with great acoustics and her voice was swirling around like an ANGEL 🎶🎄🙏🏼💒 😇🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶 This link sounds similar but not at pure and innocent as the child soprano singer💕 kzbin.info/www/bejne/fH3VnayuhbKGbaM

This is excellent. It lends so much background to the Doc Watson songs for Christmas that I recently shared where he sings and talks about this song. It's the only recording I know of where he sings it, quite a beautiful version too: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bneTf52kZr2qi6M

In Congress, July 4, 1776 The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world. He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them. He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only. He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures. He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people. He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within. He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands. He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers. He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance. He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation: For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us: For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States: For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world: For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent: For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury: For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies: For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments: For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever. He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us. He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people. He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation. He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands. He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions. In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people. Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends. We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.

The full history is far more captivating.

Thank you Mrs. Quisinberry for teaching me this beautiful song when we still allowed God in our schools.

Wolf war three started

Stole that Lil girl music for peanuts

So Bart Simpson actually made the song better. Interesting.

I know these beautiful Carols from Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians Christmas album. One of my all time favorites!

Holy sht JP Morgan his neph

The first time I heard this was sung by Burl Ives. kzbin.info/www/bejne/aJ_OaGp7hMyUpsk

The most powerful prose. Especially in these horrific times.

Watching this on Phillips Brooks' birthday, 2021. (December 13, 1835 - January 23, 1893)

Indeed, it is a haunting and mournful song, yet it is uplifting and so God glorifying. Thanks for sharing this video. By the way, I have a son living in North Carolina. Lovely state. Great people. Lots of Christian believers there. God bless. And thanks so much for sharing this video. Warmest regards, JJF

Only jayus brought me here!

Thank you Sir. I am watching and listening to your wonderful video. If I knew how to make it "go viral", I would do it. Merry Christmas 2021. Marianne

i came here to find out what the lyrics meant by using the line "HOW STILL WE SEE THEE LIE!" ..... WHAT LIE ???

The star is about a nuclear missle

I always wondered if "I'll Be Home For Christmas" was WW1 or WW2

Thank you for this insightful piece and thank you for emphasising its Ukrainian origin. So many don't bother. It is important that Ukraine's treasures are acknowledged to be Ukrainian

Thank you for this wonderful piece of history. It is such a lovely carol.

My favorite Christmas carol!

I love this carol and now appreciate the origin of it.

Our family have been singing this Carol around the piano on every Xmas day for years - we found it in an old Carol book from the 1950s. We live in England.

Thank you!!

I've been through Murphy many times, on the way to Bryson City, Cherokee, and Maggie Valley, North Carolina. This is the town where they found Eric Robert Rudolph, suspect for the woman's clinic bombing in Birmingham, and centennial park during the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. It's on highway 74, right down from Andrews, NC.

It's weird that the video doesn't mention who wrote "The Cowboy Carol". The words, as the other commenter notes, were written by Cecil Broadhurst. Some sources claim that the music was composed by Sir Malcolm Sargent, whereas others state that Broadhurst wrote the music as well as the words while Sargent was responsible for the carol's popular choral arrangement.

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If you know what jingle bells really means...They our jingle collars on slaves.So Christmas is now all about slave christmas.Never singing that song ever again.Not even in school. IGHT peace.

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Just wondering how on Earth someone could give a thumbs down to this... My father and many of our grandfathers and grandmothers put their lives on the line... Even with wicked men like George Soros and Tom steyer trying to destroy our country, and freedom around the world... They are the new Hitler Stalin and chairman Mao...That's when we remember I heard the Bells on Christmas Day... Then as now God and love will always prevail... The debt of gratitude we owe is first to God and then to them who fought for us.... The Bible tells us that each nation has a mission from God and World War II helped to reawaken us... Let's not forget🕯️🙏☦️

I have my dad's letters home to my grandmother from Agra India. I have that exact letter. He told her to save his gifts and not tell the little girl my grandparents raised. He wanted to surprise her. The song has taken on a very personal meaning to me. ❤️

God truly granted him peace on this earth