Welcome to Timbo's Christmas Songbook - lyrics to over 80 Christmas carols & songs (a mixture of traditional, religious and "fun"), for singing along at Christmas time!
The Songbook...
You may want to first check-out the Table of Contents of the 84 songs in Timbo's Christmas Songbook before downloading.
Timbo's Christmas Songbook is posted in a couple formats:
 | xmassngs.zip (676 KB): The complete Christmas songbook in Microsoft Word 97/2000 format (with Christmas clipart, compressed using PKZIP). |
| cover.zip (89 KB): A colour cover for the songbook in Microsoft PowerPoint 97/2000 format (compressed with PKZIP) |
Please let me know (timntoni@mail.com) if you download the songbook, as I'd just like to know how much interest there is in it. Thanks. And please send along suggestions for Christmas carols to add, corrections to make, or anything else.
The History of Timbo's Christmas Songbook
My family loves to sing. As I was growing up, with every Christmas came two or three good "Christmas sing-song" sessions in our living room, with all the local relatives, the neighbours, and whoever happened to be in town at the time. Usually with my Dad on guitar, and sometimes with Nikki and Carlin on piano or guitar, the house was filled with music, though admittedly not always on key. And if it wasn't too cold out, we'd often put on our warmest clothes, and go singing door-to-door while trying to read our song-sheets by feint candle light.
The only wrinkle in this idyllic Kamloops Christmas picture is that everyone had different words for the songs. The songsheets we had were a collection of newspaper inserts from the Kamloops News and the Kamloops Daily Sentinel that my Mom had collected over the years. Each one contained a different selection of carols, with a good deal of variance in the verses and lyrics of songs which appeared in more than one songsheet.
And so every year my Mom would say how she really should make up some real Christmas songbooks, with all the Christmas carols and at least all having the same words. In 1995, I decided to take on the job of compiling a definitive Christmas Songbook. Well, an attempt at definitive - something that would keep my family happy anyway. Six months later, after many trips to various libraries, research on the Internet, and a lot of typing, editing, and proof-reading, Timbo's Christmas Songbook emerged.