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Mohr took hi# . problem to his friend, the school teacher, Franz Xavier Gruber. Gruber played the organ in the little church and knew how much music meant to the men and women,’ and particularly the children of the village. Together they went to (work.
On Christmas Eve the two men had completed a simple but moving carol. It was simple because it had to be sung by the two men, a tenor and a bartitone, and accompanied by Mohr’s guitar.
They sang their new arol for the little congregation that night at midnight mass. The bargemen and farmers liked it. The children liked it.
“I am proud of you. People will sing your song long after we both are dead,” Mrs. Gruber told her happy husband that night on their way home from church.
Shortly before Christmas the next year an organ builder came to the little town to check the church organ. Gruber, testing the repairs, began to play the carol. Father Mohr began to sing the words, and Gruber joined in. The organ builder, his name long since forgotten, was as impressed as the congregation. He copied the song and played it as he went from village to village* ^repairing organs for the coming holiday.
He carried the song from the
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