Early Christmas Carol

For information about early Christmas celebrations in Australia and what is thought to be the first Christmas carol written with specifically Australian words. Go to this Australian National Library web site.

Details of the author etc will be found about half way down the page.

Our Christmas Song - This link will take you to another page which contains the music for the song. The tune is a lively romp in D major, and the rather charming words go like this:

Our Christmas Song

  Written by Ernesto Spagnoletti.
Published in 1863.

We welcome thee, old Christmas,
to this happy land of ours,
we welcome thee with sunshine,
we'll strew thy path with flowers.

 


Our beauteous birds shall greet thee,
glad welcome they shall sing,
and wildflowers' fragrance meet thee,
borne on the Zephyr's wing.

 


We have no wreath of holly,
no branch of mistletoe,
but we've a bush for Christmas
and smiling lips below.

 


No fireside cheer we offer,
no yule log blazing high,
but the sunny smile of heaven
beams in our summer sky.

Our Christmas Song cover