I wrote this here Xmas fun tune when exploring the 'formula' behind what makes a Christmas tune, well... erm ... Christmassy.  So... it includes the instruments you'd expect (sleigh-bells, church bells and a trombone/brass section - think Stop the Cavalry!), but it also includes a 'run-down' of the bells as the main hook, and that pattern of a bell peel is quite often lurking in a Christmas tune.  

I hope you enjoy listening to it, and I hope it stays in your head long after you listen to it :)

Verse
The season’s turned cold.
But it’s warm in our hearts and the hopes that we hold.
These dark winter nights,
Making the lights and the firesides glow.

Share the words we were told;
About peace for the future from stories of old.
And a childhood dream,
Paints a scene that’s dusted with snow.

Bridge
Tick tock,
children watching the clock.
As the days till the day counts down.
the excitement and joy, every girl every boy,
feels the morning when he’s been in town.

Chorus
What a wonderful feeling;
It’s the season of good cheer,
How I wish it could be Christmas time all year.
It’s the time that we long to be,
With family and friends so dear,
How I wish it could be Christmas time all year.

Verse
How happy we’ll be,
Cards on the shelves, gifts under the tree.
logs on the fire,
and love in the eyes,
Of the people we see.

Dreams that we clutch,
Like a snowflake they melt if we hold them too much.
But they can live on, 
They are reborn,
in every heart that we touch.



Middle 8

Through the darkest days of December,
The radio plays… 
…All those great songs you remember…
make you feel this way…
All is bright and all is good,
This is yours and mine,
All is right and understood,
This is Christmas time…

Xmas2021 ft Bill on bass

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We all met up in Kingston upon Thames on 2nd May 2015.  It was the first time we'd all met up together in 5 years.  These songs were recorded around a single microphone on a laptop.

Time - May 2015

I wish it could be Christmas time all year

A massively edited version of the first thing I made with Maschine

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Victoria

A  jingle-jangle idea for lyrics more than a tune (the tune is really basic chord progressions).   Enjoy.

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