"Simple Gifts" is the Shaker song, and it's used in Appalachian Spring.

Edit: Meaning, brenda is right and Sophia is right.

And on the topic of music, this quiz is pretty funny:

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Job~ma for your brother, Suela. Yeah, back in the day I worked myself up from temp to the level directly under the people who reported only to the board of directors, had a good hard look around at the view, and promptly retreated into tech. It wasn't that I didn't think I could do it, in fact, at the time (young, arrogant) I had a pretty good sense that I could be every bit as hard hitting and ruthless as it would have required to be successful in the next role up, but the thought of living every day in that soup of intrigue and drama and positioning, for the rest of my life, in order to manufacture and sell pneumatic equipment to robotics factories? Did not appeal.

So I learned t code and was allowed to work autonomously four days a week and make hitchhikers guide to the galaxy jokes all day long for slightly less salary than those guys and I never looked back.

Yikes, brenda. Here's hoping the new person is too new to get it.

Dana did make me laugh, though!

Can you convince them you got the lead in the local Christmas pageant?

Good luck to your bro, Consuela.

Ha, Dana, that was great. I just kept playing until I got them all right.

Sending job~ma, Consuela. I hope he lands somewhere great.

Xmas shopping, oy vey! Must get on that.

Oy vey, brenda. Wow. I hope it's just a fleeting memory.

I love "O Holy Night" as well as "Carol of the Bells." I tend to gravitate towards the traditional, older carols. Think "The Holly and the Ivy," "Once in Royal David's City," and "Coventry Carol." My favorite Italian carols are "Tu scendi dalle stelle" and "Gesu bambino" (which is known in English as "When Blossoms Flowered 'mid the Snows.") I also love "Patapan."

I'm a big fan of Sinatra, Martin, Crosby, and the like for secular Christmas music.

Job~ma for your brother, 'suela. I vacillate as to whether I truly want that kind of visibility at work, and I hope it turns out well for him.

I called my faux-son to arrange dropping off his Christmas present. He told me they'd planned to invite me to their Thanksgiving, but I convinced him I enjoyed working. He asked what I was doing for Christmas, and I told him I was going to eat cheese and drink wine and watch movies and made sure to sound enthusiastic about it so he wouldn't try to invite me over. It's very kind, but it's not something we ever did before, and I don't want to be The Widow We Need To Make A Fuss Over. I need to make sure to go visit at less significant times of year.

I have to admit, I still think "Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer" is freaking hilarious. And Percy, the Puny Poinsettia is cute. Guess a 14 year-old boy still lives inside me. The Senor Santa song makes me cringe, though.

My favorites are "Silver Bells", "White Christmas", and "The Christmas Song."

I agree that the only acceptable versions of 12 Days are humor ones. The symphony has a version that does stuff like play the Marseillaise after "three french hens", Swan Lake after "seven swans", and so on.

And then there's this, which -t will get, and probably no one else.

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