To celebrate the Christmas 2010, Guernsey issued a set of seven stamps feature some Christmas carol on November 4, 2010. The Christmas Carols presented on stamps are The Holy and The Ivy (31p), Little Donkey (36p), Silent Night(45p), I Saw Three Ships (48p), Joy To The World (50p), Ding Dong Merrily On High (58p), We Three Kings (80p).
"The Holly and the Ivy" is an English traditional Christmas carol. The carol contains intermingled Christian and Pagan imagery, with holly and ivy representing Pagan fertility symbols. “The Holly and the ivy” have been the mainstay of English Christmas decoration for church use since at least the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
Little Donkey is a popular Christmas carol, written by English hymn writer Eric Boswell (18 July 1921 – 29 November 2009), which describes the journey by Mary the mother of Jesus to Bethlehem on the donkey of the title. It was first recorded by Gracie Fields, whose single reached Number 21 in the UK Singles Chart in 1959.
"Silent Night" is a popular Christmas carol, composed 1818 in Austria. It was declared an intangible cultural heritage by the UNESCO in March 2011.
"I Saw Three Ships (Come Sailing In)" is a traditional and popular Christmas carol from England.
A variant of its parent tune "Greensleeves", the earliest printed version of "I Saw Three Ships" is from the 17th century, possibly Derbyshire, and was also published by William B. Sandys in 1833.
"Joy to the World" is a popular Christmas carol. The words are by English hymn writer Isaac Watts, based on Psalm 98 in the Bible..Watts wrote the words of "Joy to the World" as a hymn glorifying Christ's triumphant return at the end of the age.
"Ding Dong Merrily on High" is a Christmas carol. The tune first appeared as a secular dance tune known as "le branle de l'Official" in Orchésographie, a dance book written by Jehan Tabourot (1519–1593). The lyrics are from English composer George Ratcliffe Woodward (1848–1934),Woodward took an interest in church bell ringing, which no doubt aided him in writing it.
"We Three Kings", also known as "We Three Kings of Orient Are" or "The Quest of the Magi", is a Christmas carol written by the Reverend John Henry Hopkins, Jr., who wrote both the lyrics and the music. It is suggested to have been written in 1857 .
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