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I finally finalized this booklet of Christmas Carols that was almost done a year ago. It prints on 11 sheets of paper and has 27 songs, most with sheet music (four-part vocal harmonies), some with chords. On the front is a table of contents that lists the key (the one I prefer, not necessarily the one the sheet music is in) and time signature of each song. Slower songs are first, more upbeat songs toward the back.
To print it you either need a duplexing printer (one that prints on both sides of the paper) or you can just check the "Manual duplex" box when printing with a regular printer. Either way, make sure you flip along the short edge, not the long edge, or else half the pages will be up-side-down. It's pretty straightforward, but here are some more specific instructions. When it's printed, fold it in half and you have a Christmas Caroling booklet. You can staple it along the fold if you have a stapler that can handle it.
Note: it may take a while to print as the file contains several images (of sheet music) and is rather large.
The songs I put into the booklet are some of my favorite Christmas carols and hymns from the collection I put together a couple years ago. You can still download that collection, which includes chord charts, sheet music and lyrics for both print and Powerpoint.
I should mention that this project was inspired largely by the great caroling booklet my sister Lydia made a few years ago. she photocopied sheet music out of a hymnal, with each facing page containing just the lyrics for the same song. it was so good i though it was a shame you couldn't just print more. so i made a digital one.
for the sheet music in mine, i didn't scan anything. it's all from images i found here and there on the internet. so the image quality has its own issues, not to mention the questionable quality of some of the vocal arrangements. but i think it's pretty good for a caroling party.