The 20 best Christmas carols in Spanish. you will love it

Our favorite time of year is approaching: Christmas... la Navidad. ⛄

Family reunions, big meals, gifts and, of course, the Christmas songs.

If you like Christmas, you can't miss this article because I'm going to talk about the 20 the best Christmas carols in Spanish.

Ready to sing?

What are carols?

Christmas carols are Christmas themed popular songs and religious that are sung during this time of year.

The main theme of the Spanish Christmas carols revolves around Jesus birth in the city of Bethlehem.

The traditional Christmas carols they are usually sung with many voices, it is often children or women who sing them.

They are accompanied by different typical Christmas musical instruments: zambomba, tambourine, rattle, rattle…

Why are they called carols?

I'm going to talk to you briefly about origin of Christmas carols.

The Christmas songs They began to be sung in the fifteenth century.

In its beginnings, they were not associated with Christmas.

The word carol comes from the Latin villanus. The "villains" were the low class people who lived in the villas during the medieval age. 

they sang songs about their villas and on other issues related to the context in which they lived.

At first these songs they were only interpreted with voice, without musical instruments. 

The instruments and the christmas lettering began to be implemented in the following centuries.

traditional Christmas carols

Now that you know what a Christmas carol is, do you want to know the songs of Christmas carols vocabulary traditional Popular? The carols of a lifetime?

Surely yes.

come and sing with me top traditional Christmas carols. ????

Notice that in each song I put the Christmas carols videos in Spanish, so you can see the lyrics and appreciate the music.

I hope you like them!

Noche de paz

What is the most famous Christmas carol in the world? 

In my opinion, 'Silent Night' surely it is el most famous Christmas carol.

Been translated into more than 300 languages and performed by countless stars: Frank Sinatra, Luis Miguel, Laura Pausini, José Carreras...

your beautiful handwriting has caused 'Silent Night' to be declared Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2011.

The original lyrics were written by the Austrian priest Joseph Mohr, and composed it Franz Gruber.

White Christmas

'White Christmas' is another popular Christmas carols most famous around the world. Irving Berlin He was the one who wrote the original song: 'White Christmas'. 

It is also translated into many languages.

The version performed by Bing Crosby in 1942 has the Guinness Record for best-selling song of all time, with more than 50 million copies worldwide. 😮

The Fish in the river

'The fish in the river' It is one of the most sung Christmas carols during the Christmas in Spain.

Narrates the birth of baby jesus and how the Virgin Mary cares for him.

As he recites his beautiful refrain, fish drink in the river as a celebration of birth of baby Jesus:

"But look how the fish in the river drink, 

but look how they drink to see God born."

Undoubtedly, 'The fish in the river' has one of the most popular Christmas carol lyrics in our country.

A donkey goes to Bethlehem

Do you like Spanish funny Christmas carols?

Then, 'Towards Bethlehem goes a donkey' It will surely catch your attention. 

It's one of the carols More fun to sing in Spain due to his quick chorus reminiscent of a tongue twister.

I leave you the chorus so you can try to sing it:

"A donkey goes to Bethlehem, rin, rin, 

I mended myself, I mended myself,

I took a remiendo I took it off, 

loaded with chocolate."

Can you sing it fast? 😋

The Magi are coming

This is one of the most famous Christmas carols in spanish, since it narrates the arrival of the wise men, One our most important parties.

Three Kings Day is celebrated in Spain between January 5 and 6 every year.

Do you know what the three kings are called?

Gaspar, Melchor and Baltasar.

in the carol, Kings come from Africa and they go to Bethlehem loaded with gifts for baby jesus who was just born

Bell over Bell

During dinner on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day, the Christmas carol 'Bell over Bell' You can not miss.

It is one of the favorites of the Spanish for the simplicity of its lyrics.

Once again, count birth of jesus in bethlehem and how campaigns are played celebrating this moment.

The drummer

Despite that 'The drummer' It is of Czech origin, it is one of the carols most loved in Spain.

The reason for this is because Raphael, one of our most famous singers, composed a wonderful version of the lyrics of the villancico del tamborilero in Spanish in 1969.

Immediately the song entered the Spanish imagination and the list of traditional Spanish Christmas carols favorites.

My sabanero burrito

'My sabanero burrito' It is one of the traditional Christmas carols most recent, and one of my favourites.

The letter I find it endearing:

«With my sabanero burrito, I illuminate my path».

It tells of a peasant who is on his way to Bethlehem riding his donkey and enjoying the journey with the sunlight illuminating his path.

The singer Juanes made a remake very interesting with its peculiar style that does not detract from the original.

Go ahead, donkey

'Get up, donkey'  It is a song that has been transmitted from children from generation to generation and they always love it.

That is why it is considered one of the Christmas carols for children in Spanish favorites.

The beginning of this song is perhaps the most hooligan of all the Christmas carols:

"At the door of my house, I'm going to put a firecracker

to laugh at whoever comes, to ask for the bonus.

Well, if I'm going to give everything, the one who asks on Christmas Eve,

Yes, I am going to have to ask from door to door»

I love the popular Christmas carols and their lyrics. 😁

To Bethlehem, shepherds

'To Bethlehem, shepherds' is one of Spanish Christmas carols more descriptive because it is accompanied by an animation.

As in the previous ones, the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem is commemorated and how all the people are going to see him, in this case, the shepherds are going to see him.

Here it is detailed where Jesus sleeps or the weather what he does.

Go, go, go, the Marimorena

The marimorena" refers to the virgin mary, who was brown-haired.

This time she is the protagonist of this song.

It is one of the Christmas carols for children most popular and sung by the little ones at Christmas, especially its beginning:

"Go, go, go La Marimorena,

Go, go, go, it's Christmas Eve.

At the gate of Bethlehem

there are stars, sun and moon

the virgin and saint joseph

and the child in the cradle."

​Ouch! of the chiquirritín

This Christmas carol has a very difficult word to pronounce for a foreigner: chiquirriquitin. 

Above is repeated non-stop throughout the song. 

"Oh! of the chiquirritín Chiquirriquitín, stuck in the straw!

Chiquirriquitin! Oh! of the little chiquirriquitín

Darling, darling of the soul!»

It is one of the christmas carol lyrics more fun and complex to sing.

What do you think? Are you able to sing it without making mistakes? 😄

December 25th, fum, fum, fum

This song has its origins in the XNUMXth century and comes from The Valenc Communityiana, the Balearic Islands and Catalonia.

The meaning of the word 'smoke' in Catalan it is 'smoke' in Spanish.

The title of this carol refers to Christmas day, on December 25.

This is one of the short Christmas carols vocabulary more famous.

Adeste fideles

La Christmas carol lyrics 'Adeste fideles' vocabulary means 'Come, faithful.' 

The original song is sung in Latin, but there are versions in many languages, and of course, also in Spanish.

La pretty melody of this song and the tranquility with which it is sung, makes it one of the most precious Christmas carols.

tell me child whose you are

This Christmas carol celebrates... Let's see if you guess it?

The birth of Jesus, of course! Like almost all Christmas carol lettering. 😁

'Tell me whose child you are' perhaps it is one of the most unknown.

I also encourage you to listen to it.

Perhaps for you it is the best of all the Christmas carols on this list.

Who knows?

modern Christmas carols

did you like these classic Christmas carols?

Or do you prefer songs a little more adapted to our times? With singers who update the old carols Spanish.

If so, I propose five modern Christmas carols vocabulary that you will surely like.

¡Vamos a verlos!

Christmas (Luis Miguel)

Christmas it is a complete album of the singer Luis Miguel which collects eleven Christmas related songs.

Some of these songs are new versions of the popular Christmas carols in Spanish previously seen, such as 'Silent Night'.

Although most are original songs by the composer.

One of the most popular on this album is 'in front of the fireplace'.

Silent night, night of faith (Raphael)

Do you remember that earlier I named Raphael in his version of 'El tamborilero'?

Well, this is another of his magnificent Christmas songs, this time covering 'Silent Night' in his purest style.

Es inimitable and captivating.

Without a doubt, Raphael is one of the carol singers in spanish .

Silent Night (The Ear of Van Gogh)

More versions of 'Silent Night'?

Yes, please, but this time by the hand of the rock group Van Gogh's Ear.

This group is one of the most popular in Spain. 

In addition to doing rocker Christmas carols in Spanish, They have other great songs.

If you like their style, they are worth checking out.

It's Christmas (Nil Moliner)

we couldn't put the song down 'It's Christmas already' out of this article Christmas carols with lyrics in Spanish.

If yours are the Latin rhythms and Spanish pop, this version of Nile Moliner You're going to love it.

We had never heard this song with a such a festive rhythm

To dance! 🕺💃

The best gift is you (Mirian Rodriguez)

And we come to the end with of our christmas carol Favourite.

'The best present is you' is the equivalent to carol by Mariah Carey in Spanish: 'All I want for Christmas is you'.

In our opinion, this song transmits everything that is Christmas: family atmosphere, joy, company, generosity, good vibes...

Those same values ​​are what we always try to transmit to our students.ianyou have in Hispania, escuela de español. By the way, as usual, this year we have made our christmas video 2022. Watching this video you can get an idea of ​​how much fun we had in our Spanish courses.

Also, if you are with us on christmas days, you will enjoy a lot of events that we organize so that you feel the Christmas spirit and sing with us carol lyrics in spanish. 😊

Christmas carol activity

this has been ours list of christmas carols in spanish.

I do not want to end this article on the christmas and carols without first proposing an activity with the song 'All I want is you'.

you are going to do a listening comprehension exercise:

You must listen to the song andlenar the missing gaps.