Merry Christmas

Welcome to my Christmas page a mixture of rhymes and links that I have enjoyed and hope that you also will like them
I have spent time in selecting the links and I recommend these films......
'it's A Wonderful Life' with James Stewart..
and my favourite 'A Christmas Story'
View the Rockefeller Tree in Times Square.
You will be amazed that NASA track Father Christmas on his long journey around the world, you don't believe it? watch it with your children or grandchildren they will love it.
I hope that you enjoy this site, if you have any comments, please sign my guest book .
May I wish you a very Merry Christmas
Ray

Celebrating Christmas in 1954, with my three sisters, my late elder brother & my mother.

A Christmas Carol broadcast xmas eve 1939
John Barrymore as Scrooge! Be patient there's an ad first.

September11th 2001
link broken

A Christmas Poem by Alan Harris
Listen to the Snow

Bing Crosby Oct' 12 1944
Bing talks about & sings, White Christmas

Enjoy this true story
The Christmas Chicken

5 minute exerpt from 1945 xmas show.
Bob Hope,Bing Crosby,Dinah Shore

T'was the night before Christmas
Read by Basil Rathbone in 1939

Read a true real life Christmas Story

Christmas Polls!

Lorna Greene

Christmas Quiz

Track Santa on
Christmas Eve

A Victorian Christmas

Enjoy these Christmas Audio links

Do you believe in Ghosts?

Christmas comes but once a year, And when it comes it brings good cheer, A pocket full of money, and a cellar full of beer!

Here are a few Old English Rhymes from way,way back

Christmas is coming, The geese are getting fat, Please put a penny In the old man's hat. If you haven't got a penny, A ha'penny will do; If you haven't got a ha'penny, Then God bless you!

Dame, get up and bake your pies, bake your pies, bake your pies; Dame, get up and bake your pies, On Christmas day in the morning. Dame, what makes your maidens lie, Maidens lie, maidens lie; Dame, what makes your maidens lie, On Christmas day in the morning? Dame, what makes your ducks to die, Ducks to die, ducks to die; Dame, what makes your ducks to die, On Christmas day in the morning? Their wings are cut and they cannot fly, Cannot fly, cannot fly; Their wings are cut and they cannot fly, On Christmas day in the morning.

Keeping Christmas. How will you your Christmas keep? Feasting, fasting, or asleep? Will you laugh or will you pray, Or will you forget the day? Be it kept with joy or pray'r, Keep of either some to spare; Whatsoever brings the day, Do not keep but give away.

"Without the door let sorrow lie, And if for cold it hap to die We'll bury it in a Christmas pie And evermore be merry." (written 1622)

Christmas Pie. Lo! now is come our joyfull'st feast! let every man jolly; Each room with ivy leaves is dressed, And every post with holly. Now all our neighbours chimneys smoke, And Christmas blocks are burning; Their ovens they with bakemeats choke, And all their spits are turning. Without the door let sorrow lie, And if for cold it hap to die, We'll bury it in a Christmas pie, And ever more be merry.

St Thomas's Day is past and gone, And Christmas almost come, Maidens arise, And make your pies, And save young Bobby some.

Old English folklore: The bees hum a carol in honour of the birth of Jesus, and it's good to wish the bees a Merry Christmas by placing a sprig of holly on the hive. Young maidens placed holly under their pillow to dream of their true love.

God bless the master of this house, And its good mistress too, And all the little children That round the table go; And all your kin and kinsmen, That dwell both far and near; We wish you a merry Christmas And a happy New Year.

A Christmas Poem by Alan Harris
Here at the close of Christmas Day

Childrens church class
They speak and sing of Christmas

How the Grinch stole Christmas
Read by Boris Karloff

Children will love this site!

The little Matchgirl

See the Rockefeller Xmas Tree

A Pagan Christmas

Christmas Memories

To listen to the Audio files or if you don't like the background music!...pause here.

Personal Links

This is a fantastic site for non stop Christmas music to suit all tastes.
On the menu bar click 'more' then accuholidays....

Some good OTR Xmas shows during December

What a choice! plenty of shows and films to watch.. enjoy!
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