Talk:We Three Kings

message: 'We Three Kings of Orient Are' is one more ludicrous example of poor setting of words to melody, or vice versa, whereby strong syllables in speech do not match strong beat in the melody, with the result of creating confusion.  Where is 'Orient Are'?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.43.59.159 (talk) 22:03, 20 December 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Metre

message: Shouldn't the date in "It is suggested to have been written in 1957" be 1857, not 1957?
Bartleby62 (talk) 05:58, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: We Three Kings 

message: What kind of Christmas song do you think this is?? Studying the music, the verse is the sad part to listen to and the chorus is the happy part. Anyone know why this is true?? Any other Christmas songs that this can be said about?? Georgia guy 17:04, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Simple:  The verse is in a minor key; the chorus, in the relative major.  Kostaki mou (talk) 22:44, 26 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Christmas songs; Verses & Chorus

message: I have found at least three versions of the last line of verse five. The most popular seems to be:
Alleluia, Alleluia, Earth to the heav'ns replies.
(one source makes it "Earth to heav'n replies" with two notes on "Earth")
This one scans a bit better, and makes grammatical sense:
Heav'n sings "Hallelujah!""Hallelujah" Earth replies.
This from a christmas carol web site:
Alleluia, alleluia! sounds through the earth and skies.
None of these are exactly what is published in the main article here.
How can we get the authoritative version?
Lyrics 
We three kings of orient are...  
— Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:C7F:DC1A:CE00:CD0F:481A:89CF:A12C (talk) 19:54, 6 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Lyrics

message: "It remains one of the most popular and most frequently sung Christmas carols today."
The source for this information is at least thirty-one years old. Although the newspaper used as a source describes the information before it very well, the age of it calls into question if it is still accurate about the popularity of the carol. From personal experience, I've never before heard or read the carol before today, knowing only of what it is based on. If anyone can find any recent evidence of the song's popularity, like a poll or official ranking, it should be added as a source. Bladeavuari (talk) 19:08, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Remains one of the most popular ... today" Source outdated 

message: Are the gifts given here attributed to each king accurate? There are other websites that say Melchior brought gold, Balthazar brought frankincense and Caspar (who gets renamed in this article as "Gaspard") brought myrrh. There could be variations in different traditions as to which of the three kings brought which gifts. This could be mentioned in the article. YTKJ (talk) 20:36, 13 November 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: @YTKJ, the traditional list is given at Biblical Magi#Traditional identities and symbolism.  I have seen sheet music that provides the names in the margin at the start of each verse. WhatamIdoing (talk) 20:07, 8 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Who Brought Which Gifts?

message: The song was originally written in Em/Ghttp://www.hymnsandcarolsofchristmas.com/Hymns_and_Carols/Images/JH_Hopkins/02_Kings_Of_Orient.jpg. Why is the Composition section written in Dm/F? Can I change it?
Mgrinnell (talk) 05:01, 30 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Composition 

message: User:Libhye has now three times removed a LilyPond score from this page and restored an attempt at re-creating the layout of the lyrics in the song's 1863 publication. The LilyPond score corrected the song's key, as remarked above, and represents a very close approximation of Hopkins' score – not as Libhye suggested in an edit summary, "nothing to do with the source at all, being just some random later version". The cited source of that score is .
Libhye's main objection seems to be the changes of their attempted re-creation of the layout from the 1863 publication onto the Wikipedia page. I have pointed to MOS:QUOTE and MOS:CONFORM which ought to be observed; this apparently prompted Libhye to change the guidance there. Given past discussions there about small caps and all caps, I'm not sure those changes will remain. Anyway, there is no reason to attempt to recreate the typesetting of lyrics in a book onto a Wikipedia page, especially if it involves all caps and the amateurish indentation of lines (                        – RLY? ? Excessive blank lines in wikitext? Failed attempts at small caps rendering?). Further, Libhye's wholesale reverts restored misleading and unhelpful links, disregarded MOS:NUMRANGE, removed links to newspaper names and a Bible citation, and restored dubious categories and unsourced "In popular music" items. It also removed a request for clarification of a dubious citation.
I see no reason to return to the ill-formatted text and inadequate representation of the tune; I suggest to restore . -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 14:13, 27 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Text presentation, score