What is Australia's main Christmas song?

Answer 1

Australia does not have a main Christmas song. A variety of traditional Christmas carols and Christmas songs, and uniquely Australian songs, are sung at Christmas.

Favourites include:

• Silent Night
• Oh Come All Ye Faithful
• Hark the Herald Angels Sing
• Angels We Have Heard on High
• The First Noel
• We Three Kings
• Away in a Manger
• Joy to the World
• Oh Little Town of Bethlehem
• Good King Wenceslas

Christmas songs from America are also popular, despite the lack of snow, such as:

• Frosty the Snowman
• I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas
• Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
• Jingle Bells
• Oh Christmas Tree
• Deck the Halls

In addition, Australia has many local songwriters who have written uniquely Australian carols. These include (among others):

• Australian Jingle Bells by Colin Buchanan
• Six White Boomers by Rolf Harris
• The Three Drovers
• The Carol of the Birds
• Christmas Day ("the North Wind is tossing the leaves") by John Wheeler and William G James