Christmas Song Lyrics and Free Piano Sheet Music for Holly and Ivy

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The Holly and the Ivy

Christmas Song Lyrics and free sheet music for your intermediate piano players: three energetic arrangements of Holly and Ivy with flowing left hand chords.

Holly and Ivy's Christmas song lyrics are little-known to most people. Perhaps partly for that reason, the song feels very fresh. Listen to the beautiful sung version below:

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The left hand chord pattern is fairly easy, but coordinating the two hands together is not! It helps to treat this song as a duet with your student for a couple of weeks, trading places on the piano bench as you switch parts.

What I have found very useful with complicated eighth note patterns is what I call "Lap-Tap" practice: each hand, on the lap or on the closed piano lid, taps its own pattern against the pattern of the other hand. No worry about playing the right notes... just rhythm practice. Try doing this as you sing the song lyrics to help reinforce the melody's rhythm. I put this on my student's lesson assignment sheet for the week to do at home, also: "Lap-Tap counting 1x each day before playing with notes."

The second version is much harder, because of the added chord tones in the right hand in the second half of the song. It is possible your student may struggle a bit with the parallel 6ths in the right hand unless they know and enjoy chord inversions!

Print free piano sheet music Holly and Ivy with harmony in right hand

The third arrangement of The Holly and the Ivy is my favorite because of the driving motion in the left hand:

Holly and Ivy with Christmas song lyrics

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Listen to the beautiful piano version by George Winston:

I hope you enjoy using these free Christmas songs!

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