Holiday Jams

Dear friends,
I wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. We live in difficult times with a difficult and stubborn pandemic. There are also unrest in many parts of the world. The children suffer the most! Hope now that the world's leaders calm down and look after the people's best !!

Merry Christmas to All

The feelings of the children - can be described
as expectations - of peace in their homes
this lovely night - with tranquillity
no fights - no bombs
may destroy the lovely atmosphere
that Christmas provides

The great message to us all - is very clear
it can’t be misunderstood - it concerns our lives
We must not behave - like simple villains 
who steal - who kill
There are those who must change their way
of living on this globe

The sound of bells and chorus - makes every soul
so soft and tender - and this is the time
to care for all - which we hold so dear
take a break - and reflect
what is the meaning of our lives on earth
which we should not destroy

An approximate translation into Swedish:
God Jul till er alla

Barnens känslor - kan beskrivas
som förväntningar - på fred i deras hem
denna härliga natt - med lugn
inga slagsmål - inga bomber
kan förstöra den härliga atmosfär
som julen ger

Det stora budskapet till oss alla - är mycket tydligt
det kan inte missförstås - det gäller våra liv
Vi får inte bete oss - som simpla skurkar
som stjäl - som dödar
Det finns de som måste ändra sitt sätt
att leva på detta jordklot

Ljudet av klockor och kör - gör varje själ
så mjuk och öm - och nu är det dags
att ta hand om alla - som vi håller så kära
ta en paus – och reflektera
vad är meningen med våra liv på jorden
som vi inte ska förstöra

Merry Christmas to All

Bluegrass Christmas 2

Sleigh Ride

"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
YouTube Visualiser:https://youtu.be/Otix7Kr-Yfo

It's Christmas Time 2023

Two guitars + mandolin. Inspired by Guy Trepanier doing the same tune on a classical guitar, beautiful version BTW.
Also thinking of Maddie McNeal who recorded a beautiful Christmas CD, RIP Maddie. You are missed.

Holly And The Ivy

Slam Dance Christmas

This song has a special meaning for us.  We sat on Durge's couch and completed the words together, and created a video on the same day.  This is about the true meaning of Christmas, sentiments we so humbly want to share with you all. 
With all the Love in our hearts..    A Very Merry Christmas to you All.  from Nat & Durge xxx
See the VIDEO:  https://youtu.be/xcD1XOEXH0U

Copyright 2022 Daniels 6 Durgy / Gentle Rain Record
Produced, Written and Performed by Nat Daniels & Craig Durgy

Lyrics:
This Holy Christmas Eve.. 

I guess it’s time to set the table
The fairy lights they flicker like fireflies
The smell of wood and coal from the fire
The Laughter of family and peace is found in all

There so much I feel so grateful for
The years have been so sweet
And through the blessings 
And the bitter 
Life is so complete

The TV plays a Christmas Carol,
There’s far too much to do..
Don’t want the time to run a mile,
And yet it slows down lost in the thoughts of you…

Yes the You that is the World today, 
The way we all can be
I’ll give my love with warmth and pleasure 
A hand , a hug,  
We stand together 

But All I am is all I can give
My love is yours.. yes yours
And may the world find peace this evening
As the snow falls on the this Holy Christmas Eve

This Holy Christmas Eve

AWAY IN A MANGER

[Verse 1]
 C        C7         F          C
Away in a manger, no crib for a bed,
    G           G          F              C
The little Lord Jesus, lay down his sweet head.
    C            C7                 F             C
The stars in the bright sky, looked down where he lay
    G7          C       Dm       G7  C
The little Lord Jesus, asleep on the hay.


[Verse 2]
    C          C7          F     C
The cattle are lowing, the baby awakes;
    G           G         F         C
But little Lord Jesus, no crying he makes.
  C               C7          F             C
I love thee, Lord Jesus, look down from the sky,
    G7         C             Dm      G7 C
And stay by my bedside, till morning is nigh.


[Verse 3]
   C            C7       F           C
Be near me Lord Jesus, I ask thee to stay,
      G        G          F        C
Close by me forever, and love me I pray.
      C            C7           F          C
Bless all the dear children, in thy tender care,
    G7         C          Dm        G7   C
And fit us for heaven, to live with thee there

Jesus was born in a manger, but why is that important and what does it mean?
When the child Jesus was born, his mother Mary laid him in a manger (Lk 2:7). The word “manger” comes from the Latin word munducare which means “to eat.” A manger or crib is a wooden or stone feeding trough or food box that holds hay for larger farm animals like cattle, horses, and donkeys. Mangers were located wherever livestock were kept, places like stables, corrals, or caves. Farmers were sure to keep their mangers well-supplied with fodder at all times so the animals would never go hungry. The cattle can walk up to a manger at any time, and then spend long, leisure hours chomping away, chewing and slowly re-chewing their cud.

When Mary and Joseph arrived in Bethlehem there was no room for them at the inn, so they were forced to find lodging elsewhere, probably in a cave where animals were staying. When Jesus was born, Mary would not have wanted to lay her infant on the hard, cold, stone floor. Instead, she had to make due with what was available and the manger proved to be a convenient alternative:  the hay was soft, the box was up and off the ground, and the sides tall enough to keep her child safely inside.

Once laid there, an angel told the shepherds that they would find their newborn Messiah and Lord “lying in a manger” (Lk 2:12). They went in haste and found the child in the feeding trough and they feasted their eyes on him (Lk 2:16).

Jesus was not laid in a manger by accident. It is a major spiritual symbol. Animals go to the manger for physical food, but with Jesus lying on the hay, we can go to the manger for spiritual food. Jesus has an infinite storehouse of nourishment available, and we can approach him any time and never go hungry. Jesus feeds us with Word and Sacrament, his gospel and the Eucharist. Jesus wants us to devour his word (Jer 15:16; Ez 3:1; Rev 10:9-10), chew on it, slowly ruminate on its meaning, swallow and digest it, and make it part of the fabric of our being. Jesus’ Word is like no other food, it has the power to save our souls (Jas 1:21). Not only that, the infant in the feeding trough is the Bread of Life (Jn 6:35), the true bread come down from heaven, and whoever eats this bread will live forever (Jn 6:51). If a person wants to be spiritually well-fed, it is important to read Scripture and receive the Eucharist often.

The manger is a momentous sign that Jesus is sustenance for us. The shepherds feasted first. Now it is our turn. Jesus born on the first Christmas is food for our souls.

Author -  Father Michael Van Sloun 

Father Michael Van Sloun is a retired priest of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis. As a former school principal, high school instructor and athletic coach, he has always been a teacher. He now teaches the faith as a homilist, Bible study leader, retreat director, and pilgrimage guide.

In A Manger --- Little Lord Jesus --- Merry Christmas Waltz --- All The Best --- JTS

Little Lord Jusus - - - Merry Christmas - - - Lullaby Waltz

I wrote this song about 25 years ago but I dusted it off and gave it an ultra-funky groove. Can you dig it? Santa's A little lonely without Mrs. Claus but he'l funk his way through it! Ho, Ho, Holy Moly! Watch the video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/_Fw-rj8K8iQ

“CHRISTMAS IS JUST ANOTHER DAY WITHOUT YOU”

CHRISTMAS IS JUST ANOTHER DAY OF THE YEAR WITHOUT YOU,
SANTA'S JUST ANOTHER MAN WITH A BEARD WITHOUT YOU,
AND THE OLD CHRISTMAS TREE, DOESN'T LOOK THE SAME TO ME,
AND ALL THE YULE-TIDE SONGS NOW SOUND A BIT OFF KEY,

CHRISTMAS IS JUST ANOTHER DAY OF THE YEAR,
SINCE YOU LEFT ME,
THE SPIRIT OF THE HOLIDAY IS UNCLEAR, SINCE YOU LEFT ME, 
EVERY GOOD GIRL AND BOY,
MAY BE FILLED WITH CHRISTMAS JOY,
BUT CHRISTMAS IS JUST ANOTHER DAY OF THE YEAR,
SINCE YOU LEFT ME, SINCE YOU LEFT ME BABY,

CHRISTMAS IS JUST ANOTHER DAY OF THE YEAR,
SINCE YOU'VE GONE,
THE MOST WONDERFUL TIME OF ALL MAKES ME CRY,
SINCE YOU'VE GONE,
RUDOLPH'S NOSE MAY SHINE BRIGHT, 
IN FRONT OF SANTA'S SLEIGH TONIGHT,
AND THE SNOW MAY BE FALLING,
BUT SOMEHOW IT DON'T SEEM RIGHT,

CHRISTMAS IS JUST ANOTHER DAY FOR ME TO MISS YOU,
JUST ANOTHER DAY I WON'T GET TO SEE OR KISS YOU,
TILL SANTA BRINGS YOU BACK TO ME, 
AND PUTS YOU UNDER MY CHRISTMAS TREE,
CHRISTMAS WILL BE JUST ANOTHER DAY WITHOUT YOU,
WITHOUT YOU BABY, WITHOUT YOU, WITHOUT YOU BABY,

BY JIM VALDES © 1998

ODDS & ENDS

"CHRISTMAS IS JUST ANOTHER DAY WITHOUT YOU"

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

Daddy Want Be Home For Christmas,==, Gene Jumper, Merle Haggard, ( cover)

Daddy Want Be Home For Christmas,==, Gene Jumper, Merle Haggard, ( Cover)

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Christmas Time Is Coming (Acoustic Live at Home)

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

Fairytale of New York

Fairytale of New York (Pogues cover)

This is my humble version of this beautiful Christmas song....   Translate into English by John Sullivan Dwight i think? And originally sung by Adolphe Adam...  Many great artists have also sung this wonderful Christmas ballade

Oh Holy Night

I recorded this album in my one bedroom apartment in the week leading up to Christmas. Tuckie White sings back up harmonies.

Winter Wonderland

Dear friends,
not all people celebrate Christmas, but all people can still be kind and considerate. All religions should absolutely preach peace, understanding and caring!
I want to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and peace and quiet in the world.

Desire for a Merry Christmas 
The days have come to our world
when all folks should be happy
The bells are ringing from early morning
and the sound is heard far away
and all hatred is gone even in the poor
soldiers who are at war

 Chorus
The bells are heard all over the globe
and every eye shows the sign
that something has occured - the world has become new

In my country the winter has arrived
and lots of snow has fallen down
then lights from candels are seen in distant shores
it’s a sign for all that it’s peace
and all soldiers are burying the guns that they have and go
back to their wifes and kids

 Chorus
The bells are heard all over the globe
and every eye shows the sign
that something has occured - the world has become new

Desire for a Merry Christmas

Remixed October 2019 by Riff Beach (Hess)

Christmas In The Country (Lyrics by Tony - Featuring Riff Beach) Original ReMixed 2019

A Charlie Brown Christmas [2012 Remastered & Expanded Edition]

Christmas Time Is Here (Vocal)

This is a simple country-ish tune that declares the refusal to let Christmas decline into a purely commercial and politically correct celebration. A rare shout out to Jesus, on his birthday (give or take a few months).

I’ll Keep Christmas by Craig Durgy

Country Bluegrass Christmas

The Keys to Bethlehem (Bluegrass Christmas) [feat. Billy Oskay]

An American folk performer with roots in the 90s Seattle and Tempe music scenes, JTSunrise weaves classic tunes and tales from the heart with modern images mixed with fingers and breath - - - Genuine Gen X Folkspunk Seattle Americana acoustic guitar, banjo, mandolin, uke, autoharp, harmonica an old school stringband songs recorded down home

If you're an acoustic player/singer-songwriter of any kind please get in touch. 

All Music Matters
Your Music is Real
Thank You All
God Bless You
See u in the Pit (ole$chool punk $aying)

     JT
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JTSunrise, like a cryptic melody echoing through the mist, A silhouette against the dawn, veiled in an enigma’s twist. Their chords weave secrets, harmonies untold, In the dim-lit corners of the soul, they unfold

Is it the owl reflection of their eyes, the echo of forgotten lullabies? JT strums the strings of mystery, A troubadour in the shadows, lost in history

Their lyrics dance on the edge of dreams, Whispers of forgotten realms and moonlit streams. Enigmatic, they wander through star-kissed nights, A minstrel of the cosmos, chasing celestial light

Perhaps they’re a riddle wrapped in stardust, A cosmic wanderer, both mortal and just. JTSunrise, elusive as the morning mist, Their music lingers, leaving hearts gently kissed

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