2020 - Christmas Music of the Day #10 - What Child is This? by Lindsay Stirling
This was my mom's most favorite Christmas carol ever. No matter who was playing it, she would stop in her tracks. It could have been me playing it, or muzak on an elevator - Mom would stop. She just couldn't help it.
She used to tell me out of the billions of babies born on the earth, there was only one Messiah, one King. The people of the time were looking for a political liberator, not a spiritual one. And, sure didn't expect him to come as a baby.
From Wikipedia we read, ""What Child Is This?" is a Christmas carol whose lyrics were written by William Chatterton Dix, in 1865. At the time of composing the carol, Dix worked as an insurance company manager and had been struck by a severe illness. While recovering, he underwent a spiritual renewal that led him to write several hymns, including lyrics to this carol that was subsequently set to the tune of "Greensleeves", a traditional English folk song. Although it was written in Great Britain, the carol is more popular in the United States than in its country of origin today.[1]"
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