1.

Christmas Everyday

Pete McCann

© MCA Music, ASCAP

He was born so far away so the story's told
We remember Christmas day when winter days grow cold

With the time it passes by we put away the trim
Then we live and wonder why we can't remember him

The Christmas star shines once a year and then it fades away
Keep the spirit in your heart it's Christmas everyday
(Christmas everyday)

It's not the bells and it's not the snow and it's not the gifts we get
But He was born so long ago it's easy to forget

Peace on earth goodwill to men but men can't go alone
We get lost along the way but He can bring us home

Remember Him throughout the year without the star above
He left us all a Christmas gift he left the gift of love

The Christmas star shines once a year and then it fades away...

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2.

Kentucky Homemade Christmas

Bill Caswell - Kin Vassy

© Clay Basket Music, ASCAP

They shut down the mine last summer we're gettin' by on welfare
It's Christmas Eve I'm walkin' home not a dollar to my name
Night is almost on me a night I'm almost dreading
No store bought gifts to open but there'll be Christmas just the same

It's just another homemade Christmas in Kentucky
Just odds and ends I fashioned with my heart and with my hands
It's just another homemade Christmas in Kentucky
Our fine and fancy homemade love God's precious gift from up above
Make up the homemade Christmas of this poor Kentucky man

There's a brand new Barlow knife with a shiny wooden handle
Gleamin' in the window down at Galen Johnson's store
My wide eyed little Billy Boy his face pressed to the window
Too young for understandin' what it means to be so poor

It's just another homemade Christmas in Kentucky...

Little Linda ain't no baby hell she turns thirteen in April
She's been dreamin' about that dolly in the window for half her life
She's old enough to realize that it ain't never comin'
I'd damn near rob a bank to get that doll and Billy's knife

It's just another homemade Christmas in Kentucky...

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3.

Kids

Mac Davis

© Screen Gems Music, BMI

Kids kids Christmas is for kids
Look around and you will see
Kids from one to ninety-three
Laughin' lovin' life and bein' kids

Kids kids Christmas is for kids
Kids like you and little brother
Aunts and uncles dads and mothers
Grandma grandpa and all the other kids

Daddy runs the 'lectric train while all the children wait in vain
To take their turn at playin' engineer
Grandpa catches grandma's cheek
And all the family sneaks a peak and suddenly their wrinkles disappear

Take a look at Betty Joe underneath the mistletoe
Pretending that she doesn't know it's there
And in the front yard Uncle Mike just fell off brother's brand new bike
There's Christmas cheer and laughter everywhere

Kids kids Christmas is for kids
Christmas time is here again
And now it's when the fun begins
This time of year we all turn into kids

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4.

Carol Of The Bells

Peter Wilhousky

© Carl Fisher Music, ASCAP

Hark how the bells sweet silver bells
All seem to say throw cares away
Christmas is here bringing good cheer
To young and old meek and the bold
Ding dong ding dong that is their song
With joyful ring all caroling

One seems to hear words of good cheer
From everywhere filling the air
Oh how they pound raising their sound
O'er hill and dale telling their tail
Gaily they ring while people sing
Songs of good cheer Christmas is here
Merry merry merry merry Christmas
Merry merry merry merry Christmas

On on they send on without end
Their joyful tone to every home
Hark how the bells sweet silver bells
All seem to say throw cares away

Christmas is here bringing good cheer
To young and old meek and the bold
Ding dong ding dong that is their song
With joyful ring all caroling

One seems to hear words of good cheer...

On on they send on without end...
Hallelujah

Hallelujah Christmas is here hallelujah Christmas is here
Hallelujah Christmas is here hallelujah Christmas is here
Hallelujah Christmas is here hallelujah Christmas is here
Hallelujah Christmas is here hallelujah Christmas is here

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5.

Sweet Little Jesus Boy

Robert McGimsey

© Carl Fisher Music, ASCAP

Sweet little Jesus boy
They made You be born in a manger
Sweet little Holy child
They didn't know who you were

Didn't know You'd come to save us Lord
To take our sins away
Our eyes were blind and we could not see
We didn't know who you were

A long time ago you were born in a manger Lord
Sweet little Jesus Boy (sweet Jesus boy)
Now the world treated You mean Lord
And it's been treatin' me mean too
But that's how things are done now yeah (sweet)
We didn't know it was You

You done told us how and we are a tryin'
Master You done showed us how (how)
Even when you were dyin' (when you were dyin')
It just seems like we can't do right (do right)
Look how we treated you yeah
Please please forgive us Lord we didn't know it was you

Sweet little Jesus boy (sweet little Jesus)
Born a long time ago
Sweet little Holy child we didn't know who you were

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6.

Christmas Is My Favorite Time Of The Year

Pete McCann

© Blackwood Music, BMI

How wise the wise men must have been
To find the child in Bethlehem
He lives again and draws us near
Christmas time is here

A tail of love that never dies
The laughter in the children's eyes
The child in me is always there
Christmas is my favorite time of year

The mist of wonder lies under my tree
The gift of memories is waiting for me

The day will come and soon depart
The spirit stays to hear my heart
With love for people everywhere
Christmas is my favorite time of the year
Christmas is my favorite time of the year

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7.

White Christmas

Irving Berlin

© Irving Berlin Music, ASCAP

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas
Just like the ones I used to know
Where the treetops glisten and children listen
To hear sleigh bells in the snow

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas
With every Christmas card I write
May your days be merry and bright
And may all your Christmases be white

May your days be merry and bright
And may all your Christmases be white

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8.

My Favorite Things

Oscar Hammerstein - Richard Rodgers

© Williamson Music, ASCAP

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9.

O Holy Night

Adolphe Adam

© Shawnee Press, ASCAP

O holy night the stars are brightly shining
It is the night of the dear Saviour's birth
Long lay the world in sin and error pining
Till he appeared and the soul felt its worth

A thrill of hope the weary world rejoices
For yonder breaks a new and glorious morn
Fall on your knees oh hear the angel voices
Oh night divine oh night when Christ was born
Oh night divine oh night oh night divine

Truly he taught us to love one another
His law is love and his 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
With all of them must praise his holy name
Christ is the Lord then ever ever praise we
His power and glory ever more proclaim
His power and glory ever more proclaim

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10.

When A Child Is Born

Fred Zacar

© Beechwood Music, BMI

When a child is born

A ray of hope flickers in the sky
A tiny star lights up way up high
All across the land dawns a brand new morn'
This comes to pass when a child is born

A silent wish sails the seven seas
The winds of change whisper in the trees
And the walls of doubt crumble tossed and torn
This comes to pass when a child is born

A rosy hue settles all around
You got the feel you're on solid ground
For a spell or two no one seems forlorn
This comes to pass when a child is born

And all of this happens because the world is waiting
Waiting for one child black white yellow no one knows
But a child that will grow up and turn tears to laughter
Hate to love war to peace and everyone to everyone's neighbor
And misery and suffering will be words to be forgotten forever

It's all a dream an illusion now
It must come true sometime soon somehow
All across the land dawns a brand new morn
This comes to pass when a child is born
This comes to pass when a child is born
Is born is born

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