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.
