Lyrics to
O Holy Night

This version of O Holy Night was released by John Denver in 1975.

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O holy night, the stars are brightly shining, it is the night of our dear Savior’s birth.
Long lay the world in sin and error pining till He appeared and the soul felt its worth.
A thrill of hope, the weary world rejoices for yonder breaks a new glorious morn.
Fall on your knees, oh, hear the angels’ voices, oh, night divine, oh night when Christ was born.
O night divine, oh night, oh night divine, oh night divine.

Oh, night divine, oh night when Christ was born.
O night divine, oh night, oh night divine, oh night divine.

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John Denver has released many songs over the years besides O Holy Night. John Denver released songs from 1969 to 1998 spanning across albums like Rhymes And Reasons, Take Me To Tomorrow, Whose Garden Was This?, Poems, Prayers And Promises, Aerie, Rocky Mountain High, Farewell Andromeda, Back Home Again, Rocky Mountain Christmas, An Evening With John Denver, Windsong, Spirit, I Want To Live, A Christmas Together, John Denver, Autograph, Some Days Are Diamonds, Seasons Of The Heart, Rocky Mountain Holiday, It's About Time, Dreamland Express, One World, Higher Ground, The Flower That Shattered The Stone, Christmas, Like A Lullaby, Different Directions, All Aboard!, and Forever, John. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by John Denver.

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About Lyrics and O Holy Night by John Denver

The lyrics to O Holy Night are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that John Denver used when the song was created in 1975. The lyrics to O Holy Night have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only John Denver and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to O Holy Night by John Denver. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to O Holy Night" means the words set to the music of O Holy Night, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by John Denver. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to O Holy Night and the lyrics to O Holy Night are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of John Denver who came here looking just for the lyrics to O Holy Night, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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