The most wonderful time of the year
The very best time of the year/ It's the most wonderful time of the year; Peace, Peace/ Silent night; Mary did you know?; A strange way to save the world; A journey to Bethlehem; O holy night; Scarlet ribbons; Candlelight carol; Angels we have heard high/ Joy to the world; All is well.
The very best time of the year/ It's the most wonderful time of the year:
Christmas time and boughs of holly/ Yuletide logs and mistletoe/ Candles burning bright/ And meadows frosty white/ And faces in the firelight's glow/ Sounds of happy children's voices/ Singing carols that you love to hear/ then the silence of the night/ And the winter air so still and clear/ Feels like you could reach and touch the sky/ Or catch a star and fly away/ Feels like you could wish/ For peace on earth/ And all at once/ It would come someday/ Families and friens together/ Feel a special kind of love and cheer/ Sharing all the joys of christmas time/ The very best time of the year/Families and friens together/ Feel a special kind of love and cheer/ Sharing all the joys of christmas time/ The very best time / The very best time/ It's the most wonderful time/ Of the year/ There'll be much mistletoeing and hearts will be glowing/ When loved ones are near/ It's the most wonderful time/ It's the most wonderful time/ It's the most wonderful time/ Of the year
Peace, peace, peace on Earth/ And goodwill to all/ This is a time for joy/ This is a time for love/ Now let us all sing together/ Of peace, peace, peace on Earth/ Silent night, holy night/ All is calm, all is bright/ 'Round yon virgin mother and child/ Holy infant so tender and mild/ Sleep in heavenly peace/ Sleep in heavenly peace/ Silent night, holy night/ Shepherds quake at the sight/ Glories stream from heaven afar/ Heavenly hosts singing Alleluia/ Christ the saviour is born/ Christ the saviour is born/ Christ the saviour is born/ Christ the saviour is born
Mary did you know?/ That your baby boy/ Would one day walk on water?/ Mary did you know/ That your baby boy/ Would save our sons and daughters?/ Did you know/ That your baby boy/ Has come to make you new?/ This child that you delivered/ Will soon deliver you/ Mary did you know/ That your baby boy Would give sight to a blind man? Mary did you know/ That your baby boy/ Will calm a storm with his hand?/ Did you know/ That your baby boy/ Has walked where angels trod/ When you've kissed your little baby/ Then you've kissed the face of God/ Mary did you know/ The blind will see/ The deaf will hear/ The dead will live again/ The lame will leap/ The dumb will speak/ The praises of the lamb/ Mary did you know/ That your baby boy/ Is lord of all creation?/ Mary did you know/ That your baby boy/ Will one day rule the nations?/ Did you know/ That your baby boy/ Is heavens perfect lamb/ The sleeping child you're holding/ Is the great I am
A strange way to save the world (duet with Twila Paris)
I'm sure he must've been surprised/ At where this road had taken him/ 'Cause never in a million lives/ Would he have dreamed of Bethlehem/ And standing at the manger/ He saw with his own eyes/ The message from the angel/ Come to life, and Joseph said/ Why me, I'm just a simple man of trade/ Why Him, with all the rulers in the world/ Why here, inside this stable filled with hay/ Why her, she's just an ordinary girl/ Now I'm not one to second guess/ What angels have to say but this is/ Such a strange way to save the world/ To think of how it could have been/ If Jesus had come as He deserved/ There would have been no Bethlehem/ No lowly shepherds at His birth/ But Joseph knew the reason/ Love had to reach so far/ And as he held the saviour in his arms/ He must've thought/ Why me, I'm just a simple man of trade/ Why Him, with all the rulers in the world/ Why here, inside this stable filled with hay/ Why her, she's just an ordinary girl/ Now I'm not one to second guess/ What angels have to say but this is/ Such a strange way to save the world/ Now I'm not one to second guess/ What angels have to say but this is/ Such a strange way to save the world/ Such a strange way/ What a strange way/ Such a strange way to save the world
A journey to Bethlehem (A christmas Medley)
In Dulcé Jubillo/ Unto us a child is born/ While shepherds watched their flocks by night/ O little town of Bethlehem/ Good Christian men rejoice/ Silent night/ Once in Royal David's city/ The Coventry carol/ We three Kings/ I saw three ships/ O come to Bethlehem/ The first Nöel/ Away in a manger/ Hark! The herald angels sing/ O come all ye faithful
O Holy night!/ The stars are brightly shining/ It is the night/ Of our dear saviours birth/ Long lay the world/ In sin and error pining/ Till he appear'd/ And the soul felt its worth/ A thrill of hope/ The weary world rejoices/ For yonders breaks/ A new and glorious morn/ Fall on your knees!/ O hear the angel voices!/ O night divine/ O night when Christ was born/ O night divine/ O night, O night divine/ Truly he taught us to love one another/ His law is love and the gospel is peace/ Chains shall He break/ For the slave is our brother/ And in His name/ All oppression shall cease/ Sweet hymns of joy/ In grateful chorus raise we/ Let all within us/ Praise high His holy name/ Christ is the lord/ Then ever, ever praise we/ Nöel, nöel/ O, night, O, night divine/Nöel, nöel/ O, night, O, night divine/Nöel, nöel/ O holy night
I peeked in to say goodnight/ And there I heard my child in prayer/ "And for me some scarlet ribbons,/ Scarlet ribbons for my hair"/ All the stores were closed and shuttered/ All the streets were dark and bare/ In our town no scarlet ribbons,/ Not one ribbon for her hair/ Through the night my heart was aching/ Just before the dawn was breaking/ I peeked in and on her bed/ In gay perfusion lying there/ Lovely ribons, scarlet ribbons/ Scarlet ribbons for her hair/ If I live to be two hundred/ I will never know from where/ Came those lovely scarlet ribbons/ Scarlet ribbons for her hair
How do you capture the wind on the water/ How do you count all the stars in the sky/ How can you measure the love of the master/ Or how can you write down a baby's first cry/ Candlelight, angel light, firelight and star glow/ Shine on his cradle 'til breaking of dawn/ Gloria, Gloria in excelsis deo/ Angels are singing/ The Christ child is born/ Shepherds and wise men will kneel and adore Him/ Seraphim 'round Him their vigil will keep/ Nations proclaim Him their Lord and their Saviour/ But Mary will hold Him and sing Him to sleep/ Candlelight, angel light, firelight and star glow/ Shine on his cradle 'til breaking of dawn/ Gloria, Gloria in excelsis deo/ Angels are singing/ The Christ child is born/ Find Him at Bethlehem laid in a manger/ Christ, our redeemer aslepp in the hay/ God head incarnate and hope of salvation/ A child with His mother that first christmas day/ Candlelight, angel light, firelight and star glow/ Shine on his cradle 'til breaking of dawn/ Gloria, Gloria in excelsis deo/ Angels are singing/ The Christ child is born/Angels are singing/ The Christ child is born
Angels we have heard on high/ Joy to the world
And the stars were shining/ Distant bells were ringing/ Heavenly voices were singing/ All through the night/ All through the night/ Angels we have heard on high/ Sweetly singing o'er the plains/ And the mountains in reply/ Echoing their joyous strains/ Gloria/ In excelsis deo/ Gloria/ In excelsis deo/ Shepherds why this jubilee/ Why our joyous strains prolong/ What the gladsome tidings be/ Which inspire your heavenly song/ Gloria/ In excelsis deo/ Gloria/ In excelsis deo/ Come to Bethlehem and see/ Him whose birth/ The angels sing/ Come adore on bended knee/ Christ the lord/ The newborn King/ Gloria/ In excelsis deo/Angels we have heard on high/ Sweetly singing o'er the plains/ And the mountains in reply/ Echoing their joyous strains/ Gloria/ In excelsis deo/ Gloria/ In excelsis deo/ Joy to the world/ The lord is come/ Let Earth receive her king/ Let every heart/ Prepare Him room/ And heaven and nature sing/ And heaven and nature sing/ And heaven and heaven/ And nature sing/ Joy to the earth/ The saviour reigns/ Let all their songs employ/ While fields and floods/ Rocks hills and plains/ Repeat the sounding joy/ Repeat the sounding joy/ Repeat the sounding joy/ He rules the world/ With truth and grace/ And makes the nations prove/ The glories of His righteousness/ And wonders of His love/ And wonders of His love/ And wonders and wonders/ Of His love/ Joy to the world/ The lord is come/ Let Earth receive her king/ Let every heart/ Prepare Him room/ And heaven and nature sing/ And heaven and nature sing/ And heaven and heaven/ And nature sing/ And heaven and heaven/ And nature sing/ And the stars were shining/ Distant bells were ringing/ Heavenly voices were singing/ All through the night
All is well/ All is well/ Angels and men rejoice/ For tonight darkness fell/ Into the dawn of love's light/ Sing alleluia/ All is well/ All is well/ Let there be peace on earth/ Christ is come/ Go and tell/ That He is in the manger/ Sing alleluia/ All is well/ All is well/ Lift up your voices and sing/ Born is now Emmanuel/ Born is our lord and saviour/ Sing alleluia/ Sing alleluia/ All is well/ Born is now Emmanuel/ Sing alleluia/ All is well/ All is well
'Beware the low flying angel of the lord.' (Picture taken from Parcel Arrived Safely: Tied with string- Michael's Autobiography) Michael as Frank Spencer!