In 1922, Burt, began composing annual carols, sending them as as Christmas greeting cards to his parishioners in Marquette, and later Pontiac, Michigan.
- Christmas Minuet
- Come, Youths and Maidens
- Gloria Tibi Domine
- Good News Breaks from on High
- Happy Voices Sweetly Singing
- Heav’nly Choirs
- In a Far Judean City
- Let Christmas Be Merry
- Let’s Have a Merry Song Tonight
- Little Child Jesus, Tender and Fair
- Lying in Thy Manger Lowly
- Now Lightly Falls the Christmas Snow
- O God of Youth, Whose Spirit
- On Christmas Eve, When Fields Are White
- Soft Sings the Mother
- Tell Me, Tell Me, Shepherd, Pray
- What Wonder Is Hid in the Heart
- When Christ Was Born of Mary Free
- When I View the Mother Holding
- When All the Earth Was Dark and Dreary
- Lynne