The Ukrainian story behind Carol of the Bells

Despite this song’s worldwide popularity, many people have no idea that
Carol of the Bells is the English-language version of the Ukrainian song
“Shchedryk. ”And it was composed by a Ukrainian.

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[Herman]

*Poor fellow. He gave humanity a song of optimism & benevolence, but he in turn was murdered.*

[joalexsg]

Excellent, I've just added this link to a post I'm making on the history of this song on my edublogs, thank you so much and Merry Christmas/Yule!

[aemiliacarolphonetube]

My favorite Christmas song even before the war.

[carlhelder]

This is excellent. Thank you for sharing.

[amandalin]

Yo this was so cool! Do you by any chance have any links to recordings of the folksong? I've been trying to find one but don't know how to

[tanimagdiy]

ЛЕонтович, дівчинка вимовляє прізвище з іншим звуком 😢 як так ?

[MadamMochie]

no connection to Christmas, his beautiful song was about celebrating spring and a new year, he was murdered and his song is know for being a Christian Christmas Carol....wow where is there justice there?? Song should've remained a spring song to honor this amazing man

[Heron]

якась вимова "Лєонтовіч" - не дуже українська. Не думаю, що в англійській "е" така м'яка, власне, так само, як "і"

[demchukls]

I can actually sing the original song in Ukrainian because at home I speak in Ukrainian.

[TolkienBird]

April is our proper new year. Christianity is such a fraud.