Hiroshi,

I absolutely LOVE your song! And it makes me happy for your sake that now nobody can subtract any value from it by comparing it to another song!

What you have accomplished here is masterful in every way, and it deserves to be regarded as the highly original song that it is!

For whatever it's worth, the phenomenon of incorporating passages we've heard in other songs is very very common and easy to do! Especially given the fact that you aren't Christian and didn't listen to all of the Christmas carols every year, you certainly wouldn't have memorized the source. It is a testimony to your musical memory that you retained a passage that you may have heard only once! I am very impressed!

I like your new melody even better than the other one! Thank you for your gracious reply to my original post! It is always refreshing to me when two minds communicate and agree!

Thanks for taking time to craft and share such an amazingly creative composition with the forum!

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ey71h8ep047758h/AAC12jNM0Hz9Q8zsh5iDeqNHa?dl=0