Songs of Christmas

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Songs of Christmas
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Studio album by
Released1999
Genre Irish folk music
Christmas music
Length44:55
Label Rover Records
The Irish Rovers chronology
Come Fill Up Your Glasses
(1998)
Songs of Christmas
(1999)
Down By The Lagan Side
(2000)

Songs of Christmas is the twenty-sixth album by Irish folk music group The Irish Rovers.

Track listing

  1. "Bells Over Belfast" - 3:24
  2. "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen" - 3:03
  3. "Christmas Caroling" - 2:47
  4. "Away in a Manger" - 3:10
  5. "Good King Wenceslas" - 2:20
  6. "We Three Kings" - 3:18
  7. "The Christmas Traveller" - 3:03
  8. "What Child Is This?" - 3:53
  9. "Christmas in Killarney" - 2:59
  10. "Silent Night" - 3:13
  11. "Miss Fogarty's Christmas Cake" - 3:30
  12. "All Through the Night" - 3:39
  13. "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer" - 3:26
  14. "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" - 3:10

Personnel

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