For the Seventh Day of Christmas, the last day of 2021, our sing-along song is “O Come, All Ye Faithful.” In this recording I’ve used just two familiar English verses, not the Latin “Adeste Fideles,” which is the first verse of the original version of the hymn. The song actually has an astonishing eight Latin verses, some of them almost impossible to sing in English.1
Notes:
- Interestingly, in the original copy shown here, the familiar Latin invitation “venite, adoremus”–“come, let us adore”–was “venite, adorate”–which, if my recollection of high school Latin is correct, would be a command: “come, adore.” ↩
