Thai Christmas Songs เพลงไทยคริสตมาส

Written by Karl Dahlfred on 07 December 2011.

One of the best parts of the Christmas season is the music. In Thailand, most of the traditional Christmas hymns are available in Thai, as well as some original Thai compositions. For your listening pleasure, spiritual edification, and cultural education, I have linked below a small collection of both Western and Thai Christmas songs for listening and download.

Listen online by using the embedded audio player for each song, or download individuals songs by right clicking on "MP3" and saving the file. Or you can download all the songs as a zip file here (32 MB - right click and save). These recordings do not have a copyright on them, as far as I know. The quality on some of them is a bit low, but they are enjoyable all the same.

When you download the files, you'll notice a number to the left of each title. This is a song number corresponding to เพลงนมัสการ, the songbook used by the Associated Churches in Thailand (ACT). The Western Christmas songs can also probably be found in most collections of Thai Christian music (such as เพลงแห่งชีวิตคริสเตียน), and I believe that the older Thai style songs can be found in เพลงไทยไพเราะ (Traditional Thai Hymns).

To use these songs to go caroling with a group, I have made up the following document that you can print out double-sided, fold up, and use as a small booklet: