Fall on your knees! Oh, hear the angel voices! O night divine, the night when CHRIST was born; O night, O Holy Night , O night divine! (http://youtu.be/-PqvAdz5cYE) The words and lyrics of the old carol 'O Holy Night' were written by Placide Cappeau de Roquemaure in 1847. Cappeau was a wine seller by trade but was asked by the parish priest to write a poem for Christmas. He obliged and wrote the beautiful words of the hymn. He then realised that it should have music to accompany the words and he approached his friend Adolphe Charles Adams(1803-1856).