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  How “Joy to the World!” became a Christmas carol

  Posted on December 23, 2015 by Rolf in Blog

  It wasn’t originally! It came about because a young Englishman named Isaac Watts (1674-1748) was bored in church. He told his father he thought the poetry used in hymns was […]

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