Silent Night Lyrics
All is calm, all is bright
Round yon Virgin, Mother and Child
Holy Infant so tender and mild
Sleep in heavenly peace
Sleep in heavenly peace
Silent night, holy night
Shepherds quake at the sight
Glories stream from heaven afar
Heavenly hosts sing Alleluia
Christ the Saviour is born
Christ the Saviour is born
Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht
Alles schläft; einsam wacht
Nur das traute hochheilige Paar
Holder Knabe im lockigen Haar
Schlaf in himmlischer Ruh!
Schlaf in himmlischer Ruh!
Silent night, holy night
Son of God, love's pure light
Radiant beams from Thy holy face
With the dawn of redeeming grace
Jesus Lord, at Thy birth
Jesus Lord, at Thy birth
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“‘Silent Night’ is one of my favourite songs so it had to be there. It’s always our last song at the family carols so I was planning for it to be the last song on the record but, after battling with the final order, it went up front in a late move.
I knew that the main body of the record would be performed by my band, with different guest singers. But I’d recorded a song that came out last year, ‘Sleep Australia Sleep’, with Alice Keath and Sime Nugent and thought it would be great if we had that line up with three voices singing harmony all the way through on some songs.
It was Sime’s idea to add Shane Reilly who plays all the instruments on the track. He is such a beautiful player and we wanted to get that Hawaiian kind of feeling he brings with the ukulele and steel guitar.
Alice speaks German and the song was originally written in that language so we thought we would honour that with Alice singing one of the verses in German. We had a lot of fun with this one, swapping around the vocal parts.“ – Paul Kelly in a track-by-track breakdown on his website
- 1.Nativity
- 2.Silent Night
- 4.Christmas
- 10.Shalom Aleichem
- 11.The Oxen
- 13.Three Drovers
- 15.Surah Maryam
- 16.Coventry Carol
- 19.Christmas Train
- 21.Intonent Hodie