Stars Were Gleaming

Author: Nancy Byrd Turner
Composer: Polish carol

Languages (41)

This song text has been indexed at SingPraises.net in the following languages:

• Albanian: Yjet Ndrinin
• Bulgarian: Звезди блещукат във нощта
• Cebuano: Kabitoonan Misanag
• Chinese (Simplified): 群星闪耀
• Chinese (Traditional): 群星閃耀
• Croatian: Kroza tamu mrkle noći
• Czech: Hvězdičky se rozzářily
• Danish: Julenat
• Dutch: Sterren stralen
• English: Stars Were Gleaming
• Estonian: Tähesära
• Fijian: Veikalokalo Cila Mai
• Finnish: Unisista paimenista
• French: Nuit de Noël
• German: Christnacht
• Greek: Άστρα λάμπουν
• Hungarian: Hűvös éjben, csillagfényben
• Icelandic: Jólanótt
• Indonesian: Bintang-bintang Gemerlapan
• Italian: Scintillavano le stelle
• Japanese: 星の光る伎に
• Kekchi: Saʼ choxa xlemtzʼun taqʼa
• Khmer (Cambodian): ផ្កាយ​ចាំង​ពន្លឺ
• Korean: 빛난 별들
• Latvian: Ziemassvētku zvaigzne
• Lithuanian: Žvaigždės švietė
• Malagasy: Kintan’ny Krismasy
• Mandarin (Romanized/Pinyin): Qúnxīng shǎnyào
• Mongolian: Одод гялалзаж байв
• Norwegian: Julenatt
• Portuguese: Astros Brilham nas Alturas
• Romanian: Pe cer stele străluceau
• Russian: Звёзды блещут
• Samoan: O Fetu na Pupula
• Spanish: La Nochebuena
• Swedish: Herdar sov i vinternatten
• Tagalog: Nagningning ang mga Tala
• Tahitian: Fā te feti’a
• Thai: ดาวส่องประกาย
• Tongan: Ngaahi Fetuʻu Ne Uló
• Ukrainian: Ніби в морі сяють зорі
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Most common tunes for “Stars Were Gleaming”

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Appearances of “Stars Were Gleaming” over time

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Copyright status of original text

This text was first published in English, in 1930 or earlier.

In copyright

Earliest source indexed at SingPraises.net: The Children Sing (1951), no. 151.

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