My Favorite New Christmas Song

A few years ago Sissel came from Norway to sing with the Mormon Tab Choir.  I loved her voice and bought all of her cd's.  She has a clear almost haunting sound.  She sings in different styles and I like everything I have heard.  She sings a beautiful Norwegian Christmas Carol that I would like sung at my funeral when I die (someone tell Mark).  Here are the words:

When Will My Heart Arise

On this glad Christmas morning

When will my heart arise?

The dew will rise the dawning

The sun rise to the skies

Oh, Jesu, while you're sleeping

The whole world sings its joys

But I am filled with weeping

When will my heart arise?

I am the thorns that crowned you

I am the whips that scourge

I am the chains that bound you

Who all my sins did purge

I am the cross you shoulder

A cross that crucified

Against your tongue the boulder

When will my heart arise?

I heed here by your manger

Oh blessed winter child

Great, do not have me stranger

Into the winter wild

I kneel here for forgiveness

And all my sins despise

Forgive me gentle Savior

Then will my heart arise.

I can't find a good recording of this to put on this post but you can buy it for 99 cents from itunes.

A youtube recording of it in Norwegian is at:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbmXmNKkiqQ

I also like "Like an Angel Passing Through My Room"

You can listen to it at

 www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9A4sOKTdp4

If you really like her music buy a few songs on itunes. You won't be sorry.