Christmas Song Lyrics

 Lately, while listening to Christmas music—yes, I begin listening way before Thanksgiving—I’ve been struck by the relevance or how certain lyrics have taken on new significance.

Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, written in 1943 during war-time is just as relevant today under a pandemic where we cannot travel, must stay socially distanced, and DO NOT eat figgy pudding together!

Have yourself a merry little Christmas
Let your heart be light
From now on
Our troubles will be out of sight

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Through the years
We all will be together
If the fates allow
So hang a shining star
Upon the highest bough
A merry little Christmas now

O, Holy Night is another one. I’ve blogged about this before—here is a link, https://memoirouswrite.blogspot.com/2019/12/o-holy-night.html

Some bright (not really, maybe a little) examples: 

Long lay the world in sin and error pining
Till he appeared and the soul felt it's worth
The thrill of hope, the weary world rejoices
For yonder breaks a new and glorious morn

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Chains shall He break, for the slave is our brother
And in His name, all oppression shall cease

Composed quickly in 1843 it was meant to be “filler” a as the church organ was being renovated. On Christmas Eve they needed something the congregants could sing—and so necessity brought us this little gem that so perfectly reflects how I’m feeling these days as we await concession, election, vaccination, a “before times”, a way to return to normal—even as we all realize that that place/time is in the rearview mirror and we have to go on.

This Christmas as we gather/don’t gather, mask and stand 6 feet apart, let us remember that

For yonder breaks a new and glorious morn