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What a lovely surprise Debra came up with when I asked if she would like to collaborate on an earlier released song "Nice to See You".  She couldn't get past "Ode to Joy" when she first started, and I told her "Let's just run with it and see what other Christmas music might go with the song".  Her genius for counterpoint is full of charm and wit and on full display in this song.  Hear more of her beautiul music @debra_buesking.  We wish you all a very merry Christmas and the happiest of New Years:)

"Nice To See You" Holiday Mashup (with Debra Buesking, piano)

Mix/Mastering - WOODS STUDIO

Remember that Christmas
The family’s last Christmas
I know it’s been years but the memory’s dear

Now the holiday's started
With so many departed
It’s not the same feeling
And it’s hard to find cheer

It’s you and I only
And to feel less lonely 
Here in our home we treat the past as a friend
And then in our hearts
It is Christmas once again

We’ve every intention
To follow tradition
But sometimes we find ourselves preoccupied
It’s not how it once was
And feeling as one does
We do what we can and are glad that we tried

 It’s you and I only
And to feel less lonely 
Here in our home we treat the past as a friend
And then in our hearts
It is Christmas once again

What else could give our spirits a lift
Then late in December
To once more remember
the happy times - and that is our gift

So sit by the fire
The warmth will inspire
The times that we once shared to join with us

It’s you and I only
And to feel less lonely 
Here in our home we treat the past as a friend
And then in our hearts
It is Christmas as back then, back when
Yes in our hearts
It is Christmas once again

Christmas Once Again

Video clip: https://youtu.be/EftEmdNjK3A

[update 12-2023] @SaintSnake has added lyrics and voice on this piece:
https://on.soundcloud.com/RCsoWnmLnCysZuzr9

Will There Be Snow This Christmas ?

Sung so wonderfully by Ren Faye.  Please listen to Ren's songs here: https://soundcloud.com/renfaye-1

Winter Rose

There is a lull in the field.   On Monday, we go back to the plough.  Till then …

Welcome to velleins’ table! The finest in the fief
Come to Mrs Fletcher’s fabled feast beyond belief

Porray of leaks and onions
Acrobats, fools and jongleurs
Don’t be seen, Thomas, from inside the Hall, where the nobles call

‘Cos nobody knows we’re here.  Dedicated to the night
Rose winter rose appear. Celebrating out of sight.

The darling thrush, the spectre grey
The tangled bine-stems score the sky
Now seek their humble household fires

Welcome to velleins’ table! The finest in the fief
Come to Mrs Fletcher’s fabled feast beyond belief

Venison on a trencher
Roasted swan dressed in feather
Take good care, Thomas, from inside the Hall, where the nobles call 

‘Cos nobody knows we’re here.  Dedicated to the night
Rose winter rose appear. Celebrating out of sight.

The darling thrush, the spectre grey
The tangled bine-stems score the sky
Now seek their humble household fires

Cos nobody knows we’re here.  Dedicated to the night
Rose winter rose appears. Celebrating out of sight.

The darling thrush, the spectre grey
The tangled bine-stems score the sky
Awaits their summer joy desires

There is a lull in the fields.   On Monday, we go back to the plough.  Till then …

Winter Rose

Winter Rose - Ren Faye | Candyside Arcade

"I have wanted to write a Christmas song for many years and I am so happy that I have finally got one together. Inspired by all of the great things I love about songs for Christmas; it has to be a bit cheesy, lots of fun, emotional, nostalgic and a total ear worm. I have wrapped the chorus around a simple narrative of love and family and friends enjoying a good time. I wanted this to be something you can easily pick up and sing along to with friends. I hope you enjoy this and Merry Christmas!"

A song for Christmas - "It's Christmas Time"

It's Christmas time, it's Christmas time
It's Christmas time, it's Christmas time

December 24th I came knocking on your door
With presents in my hand for you and your family
You greet me with your tinsel eyes and wrap me up in your white smile
You invite me through the door to see your friends and your family

I have never felt like that before
You know it takes me back to when I was a kid at home at Christmas time with my family

Your friends all help me fit right in and I was drinking and grinning my grin 
Yeah, the party was about to begin as we got round the fire to sing

Ho Ho Ho it's Christmas time
It's Christmas time, it's Christmas time
Hear the choir sing outside
It's Christmas time, it's Christmas time
Like McCartney have a wonderful time
It's Christmas time, it's Christmas time
Ho Ho Ho it's Christmas time
It's Christmas time, it's Christmas time

It's Christmas time, it's Christmas time
It's Christmas time, it's Christmas time

© Heart House Records 2022

Written, performed, recorded, produced and mixed by Heart House Records
Mastered by DOLBY

This track was rated a Commended Entry with 5/5 stars as part of the 2022 Official UK Songwriting Contest.

Inspired by:
#PaulMcCartney #EdSheeran

Add this song to your SPOTIFY playlist: https://open.spotify.com/track/3cwW96jgHHEG5Le8qImSu4?si=2ba01e61b9ad4a48

YouTube: https://youtu.be/i5uWi8hjwPg
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It's Christmas Time 2023

"Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" is a song written in 1943 by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane and introduced by Judy Garland in the 1944 MGM musical Meet Me in St. Louis. Frank Sinatra later recorded a version with modified lyrics. In 2007, ASCAP ranked it the third most performed Christmas song during the preceding five years that had been written by ASCAP members. In 2004 it finished at No. 76 in AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs rankings of the top tunes in American cinema.

This version was performed & recorded by Robert Brogan! Don't forget to like, RT, & share all of your favorites, & add your favorites to your playlist! Thanks for listening! Merry Christmas! Enjoy the Holidays with your friends, family, and a warm cup of hot co-co. This is the way!

Robert Brogan

Have yourself a Merry little Christmas

written and performed by Gerald Shaffer (doonesburyband.com

Please like, comment and repost this free stream. Xmas Blues is available of Band Camp for download. Signed discs on request

From the album of the same name this song is one of several new songs and the first Christmas themed album from the Doonesbury Band, albeit with a doonesbury twist.

Mary Xmas and a pheasant new beer. 

Recorded at Doonesbury Studios and produced by Gerald Shaffer Music Xmas Blues is the album of the same name.

Santas Blue

Mixed and Mastered by Woods Studio
soundcloud.com/woods_studio

Lyrics:

Lost little angel, you have left your heavenly host,
Oh little angel, perched upon your lonely post,
My little angel with your silver glow, all dusted by the snow.
Lost little angel, wonder how you came to be
The lovely crown that’s on the top of my Christmas tree?
Oh little angel please relate your tale, upon your goodness I will prevail.

You tell me that you have a heavenly assignment,
Lonely though it may appear to be.
Years ago you sowed the seeds of what turned into,
A wonderful eventuality.

Lost little angel you were part of a holy choir
Creating music that would set the suns on fire,
But on a blessed night you lost your way, 
While pursuing a star’s bright display.
You followed it until it led you to a place,
Where Endless God was finding birth in the human race,
The holy host had sought and found you there, 
And they joined in jubilation and prayer.

From that time forward you earned a special mission,
All the other angels did agree,
At Christmastime you would appear among the humans,
To help a lost and lonely one like me.

Lost little angel, guess you’re right where you should be,
Giving me guidance from the top of my Christmas tree,
Oh little angel you’re not lost at all, your serenity says it all.

Halle…  Halle… Hallelujah!

Lost Little Angel

O come, O come, Emmanuel
And ransom captive Israel
That mourns in lonely exile here
Until the Son of God appear
Rejoice! Rejoice!
Emmanuel shall come to thee, O Israel

This hymn, originally in Latin, takes us back over 1,200 years to monastic life in the 8th- or 9th-century. Seven days before Christmas Eve monasteries would sing the “O antiphons” in anticipation of Christmas Eve when the eighth antiphon, “O Virgo virginum” (“O Virgin of virgins”) would be sung before and after Mary’s canticle, the Magnificat (Luke 1:46b-55)

The Latin metrical form of the hymn was composed as early as the 12th century. John Mason Neale (1818-1866), the famous architect of the Oxford movement, discovered the Latin hymn in the appendix of an early 18th-century manuscript, “Psalterium Cationum Catholicorum,” with a refrain. Neale, a translator of early Greek and Latin hymns, included it in his influential collection, Mediaeval Hymns and Sequences (1851)

British hymnologist J.R. Watson provides a context for the antiphons included on the second page after the hymn in the UM Hymnal: “The antiphons, sometimes called the ‘O antiphons’ or ‘The Great O’s’, were designated to concentrate the mind on the coming Christmas, enriching the meaning of the Incarnation with a complex series of references from the Old and New Testaments.”

Each antiphon begins as follows:

O Sapentia (Wisdom)
O Adonai (Hebrew word for God)
O Radix Jesse (stem or root of Jesse)
O Clavis David (key of David)
O Oriens (dayspring)
O Rex genitium (King of the Gentiles)
O Emmanuel

Put together, the first letter of the second word of each antiphon spells SARCORE. If read backwards, the letters form a two-word acrostic, “Ero cras,” meaning “I will be present tomorrow.”

All of the Latin attributions to the coming Messiah are from the Old Testament except “Emmanuel,” which is found both in Isaiah 7:14 and Matthew 1:23. Matthew quotes Isaiah virtually verbatim—“Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Emmanuel”—with the exception that Matthew adds the phrase: “which being interpreted is, God with us.”

The “O Emmanuel” antiphon was traditionally sung on the night before Christmas Eve, revealing the meaning of the liturgical riddle through the completion of the acrostic

John Mason Neale
Neale translated the opening line as “Draw nigh, draw nigh, Emmanuel” for his volume of translations, Mediaeval Hymns and Sequences. It appeared in The Hymnal Noted, Part 2 in 1854 with a tune supplied by Thomas Helmore entitled VENI EMMANUEL

The heading in this hymnal stated: “From a French Missal in the National Library, Lisbon.” Scholars have not been able to locate the French missal, but Sister Thomas More (Dr. Mary Berry) located the tune in the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris, identifying it as a 15th-century “Processional” for French Franciscan nuns

The famous Hymns Ancient and Modern (1861) used Neale’s revised translation, which continues to be employed in many hymnals. The block chords of the original musical were eventually replaced with more freely flowing plainsong settings

There are numerous textual variations in many hymnals, including even the order of the stanzas. Laurence Hall Stookey, recently retired worship professor at Wesley Seminary, retranslated portions of the hymn to reflect more accurately the original Latin

Regular readers of this column will note that many hymns found in our hymnals transcend centuries, cultures, translations and many variations until we find them in the form that we sing. With this hymn, the essence of the original Latin text remains. By singing “O come, O come, Emmanuel” with the antiphons interspersed, Christians today may participate in a sacred Advent ritual at least 11 centuries old

Author - C. Michael Hawn, D.M.A., F.H.S., a University Professor Emeritus of Church Music and Adjunct Professor and Director, Doctor of Pastoral Music Program at Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University

O Come Emanuel

O Come Emmanuel - Instrumental - Gothic Americana

This is a very special Christmas song written by organist, keyboardist, and good friend, Norman Goad.  It was originally recorded in 2008 by Carlos Casso, sung by the late Joe Bolin (whom this posting is in memory of), and featuring the 1st Presbyterian Church, Amarillo children's choir, Chuck Alexander on bass, Dean Yates playing 2nd guitar and acoustic lead in the break, Norman on keys, and a special thanks to him for asking me to play acoustic guitar on his beautiful song.  The sheet music is also available at: https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/this-is-christmas-octavo-digital-sheet-music/22314828
Lyrics:
Candles in the window, snowflakes in the air,
This is Christmas, this is Christmas time.
People giving gifts and showing that they care,
This is Christmas, this is Christmas time.
But some people don't know what Christmas is,
They can't tell for all the traditions.
Christmas is a baby boy who was born,
And lived and died for you and me,
That's the gift of Christmas.
Baby in a manger, proving that he cares,
This is Christmas, this is Christmas time.
Candle in our heart shows people everywhere,
This is Christmas, this is Christmas time.
Instrumental break
Candles in the window, snowflakes in the air,
This is Christmas, this is Christmas time.
People giving gifts and showing that they care,
This is Christmas, this is Christmas time.
But some people don't know what Christmas really is,
They can't see through all the decorations,
God's gift is a baby boy that lived and died,
And rose again triumphantly.
That's the gift of Christmas.
Candles in the window, candle in our hearts,
Baby in a manger, that's the gift of Christmas time.
Song and lyrics published by permission.

This Is Christmas (by Norman Goad; keyboards, Joe Bolin; lead vocal, David; acoustic guitar)

Last Christmas

Christmas comes once a year.  It’s a time of happiness and cheer and it’s also the one day that Uncle Lou gets to use his electric knife
He used to work in a butcher shop and all day long there was meat to chop.
But now he’s an accountant and his life is kind of dull in a mind numbing sort of way.

But when it comes time for Uncle Lou to cut the Christmas ham and turkey
he get’s a wild gleam in his eye
He says don’t worry I’m a professional
I know what I am doing 
as we all try to get out of his way

Uncle Lou’s got the electric knife
And we’re fearing for his life
That poor turkey had no chance
I think I’m gonna wet my pants

We’re afraid that Santa won’t come 
And if he does he’ll turn and run
He’ll take one look Uncle Lou
And his reindeers will be scared too

They say Electric knives have a high injury potential
And losing a finger is very consequential
But Uncle Lou doesn’t seem to care

He’s got the culinary version of a chainsaw in his hand
And he picks it up and he takes command
If he had a hockey mask you’d swear it was Friday the 13th

After a few minutes his job is complete
And then we all sit down to eat
Instead of saying grace we thank God that his fingers have survived for another year

Uncle Lou’s got the electric knife
And we’re  fearing for his life
That poor turkey had no chance
I think I’m gonna wet my pants

We’re afraid that Santa won’t come 
And if he does he’ll turn and run
He’ll take one look Uncle Lou
And his reindeers will be scared too

Uncle Lou's Got the Electric Knife

Christmas: A birthday celebration where we tend to forget whose birthday it is.

Não há lugar, não há qualquer estalagem.
Já não há espaço no coração.
Não há milhões que prestem homenagem.
Não há louvores da multidão.
Dá-me tua luz, oh vem guiar os passos meus.
Dá-me tua luz, filho de Deus.
Como os pastores que os anjos convidaram
Deus dá convites a todos nós.
Abençoados os que não esperaram
e atenderam à Sua voz.
Dá-me tua luz, oh vem guiar os passos meus.
Dá-me tua luz, filho de Deus.

Natal 2023

Just a Little Christmas Tune I Wrote a While Back ....

Christmas Is Coming

Christmas time again by Jess  Johnson   music by Angel beats

Here with Viennese Christkindelmarkt :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKLbPgcgA9c
Franz Gruber - Composer 
Theo Bina - Arr, Mix, Guitars, Bass, Synths, Drum Programming. 
Magdalena Bina – Vocal
Recording: 2012

Theo Bina Silent Night

Silent Night in 4 quarters (Theo Bina)

Get Close To Me - 30:11:2023, 22.25

ooooooohhhhhhh Its xmas

Happy xmas everyone......enjoy

Ohh...Its Xmas   (2023)

Natal (Lucas 2)

Wishing all my Soundcloud friends and listeners a very Merry Christmas.  Let us all remember to reach out to someone in need this Christmas.  I am sure they will greatly appreciate it and we will be better for having done so.

Sleep in Heavenly Peace

Inspired.

Contact | hearthouserecords@hotmail.com

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