So you’ve been shopping and you’re tired already of all those synthesized versions of Christmas Carols?
But how many could you identify by the initials of each word of their first lines?I’ll give you the first.
1. WSW – While Shepherds Watched.
2. JTTW -Joy to the World…. Bravo
3. OHN- Oh, Holy Night. Bravo
4. HTHAS -Hark the herald angels sing…… OZ
5. TFN –The first Noel….OZ
6. DDMOH -Ding dong, merrily on high…. OZ
7. CASTHM- Christians awake! Salute the Happy morn…. PapaG
8. GRYM-God rest ye merry gentlemen…….OZ
9. OCOCE – O Come O Come Emmanuel… PapaG
10. ITBM-In the Bleak Mid-winter…. Bravo
11. IHIL-Infant Holy, Infant Lowly … PapaG
12. LCDAC -Love Came Down At Christmas – Ferret
13. WTKOOA -We Three Kings of Orient Are … PapaG
14. THATI -The Holly and the Ivy…. PapaG
15. GKW-Good King Wenceslas….Bravo
16. OCT – O Christmas Tree…. Bravo
17. AIAM -Away in a manger…. Shoena
18. AFTROG -Angels from the Realms of Glory… Christina
19. GTIOTM – Go tell it on the mountain …. Christina
20. ISTS- I saw three ships (come sailing by)… PapaG
Happy Puzzling
Boadicea's Chariot 
Jeez, Pseu – this is worse than one of Boudicea’s alphabetical conundrums.
4. Hark the herald angels sing……
5. The first Noel….
6. Ding dong, merrily on high….
OZ
I’ll comment later after a few more have had a go and when I’ve cooked and eaten supper 🙂
3. Oh, Holy Night.
10. In the Bleak Mid-winter.
15 Good King Wenceslas.
I know, I know, I did all the easy ones…
8. God rest ye merry gentlemen…….
C’mon you lot, or else Toc will show up in a couple of hours and accuse me of hogging the limelight again. 🙂
OZ
14. The Holly and the Ivy.
2. Joy to the World.
8. God rest ye merry COMMA gentlemen.
Oops. sorry, OZ, saw you’d got No. 8 as I hit the button.
9. O Come O Come Emmanuel.
18. Angels from the realms of glory.
Hope you had a good supper, Pseu, now get yourself sorted. 🙂 Where’s SNHN – Silent night, holy night, which also works in the original German?
OZ
17 Away in a manger.
What about OLTOB?
I like OIRDC too. 🙂
And ITUAMC.
13. We Three Kings of Orient Are.
11. Infant Holy, Infant Lowly
19. Go tell it on the mountain.
7. Christians awake! Salute the Happy morn.
20 I saw three ships (come sailing by)
PS I hope 16 is not meant to be the Sussex Carol (On Christmas night)
NO PapaG it is not.
Pseu – You do realise that if there’s anything by Slade or Cliff Richard in there, I’m going to come over personally and rip your throat out. 🙂
OZ
Crikey!
Sheona, O little Town of Bethlehem
What about ITUTMC?
Should that be ICUAMC? (It came upon a midnight Clear)
‘OIRDC’ – sorry can’t work that one out
7. Christians awake! Salute the happy morn.
The ice is getting very thin, Pseu!
OZ
16. Ooh, you crafty little Pseudonym you. Oh Christmas Tree. (O Tannenbaum!)
Well spotted, Bravo. I told Pseu the ice was getting thin!
OZ
Whoops, sorry PapaG. Didn’t read your #15 properly.
OZ
13 We three kings of Orient are.
(From Birmingham is not so far!)
7 Christians awake salute the happy morn.
18 Angels from the realms of glory.
I cannot find this one.
19. Go tell it on the mountain!
That’s cheating its not a real Christmas hymn/carol, its a liberal pinko tambourine job, happy clappy in the aisles!
Sipu, wicked!
CO, you are so, so ….er…….conservative. 🙂
Still a few to go, Chaps!
Christina, I couldn’t make it too easy, now could I 🙂
IHIL – Infant Holy, Infant Lowly
WTKOOA – We Three Kings of Orient Are (one on a scooter, honking his hooter…)
13. We three Kings of Orient Are.
Darn Christina and Ferret beat me!
Darn it didn’t see Mrs Osbornes entry. Stoopid small furry mustelid. 😦
Right!
LCDAC – Love Came Down At Christmas
7. Christans awake, salute this happy morn
12. Love came down at Christmas.
Curses, Ferret types quicker than me, Miss. ‘Snot fair. 😥
11. Infant holy, infant lowly
13. We three kings of Orient are
Kerr-ching – Job jobbed! Good one, Pseu.
OZ
🙂
Do you want another one?
Yes please. I’m a glutton for punishment. 🙂
OZ
I’m waiting for the chipmunk roasting!
Me too. Roasting’s easy and the marinade is ready. Send a box of chipmunks urgently!
OZ
Yes, please, Pseu.