My Christmas gift for you: A playlist of all the wonderful music we’ve been listening to this Advent! Go to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpeaoAOPcUc&list=PLPKlZ6WXGYq_MRnOY6hH_YadWaIwg-jnX

The link is also on the home page of ButGod.blog. Enjoy!!

Christmas celebrates one of the biggest But God moments of all time.

I couldn’t find a video with lyrics of the song I chose for today, Sandi Patty singing Carol of the Bells, so here’s my attempt to transcribe them. Enjoy!

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 our song with cheerful ring all caroling

One seems to hear words of good cheer from everywhere filling the air

Oh how they pound, raising the sound, o’er hill and dale, telling their tale

Gayly they ring while people sing songs of good cheer, Christmas is here

Merry, merry, merry, merry Christmas …

(Repeat first section)

On, on they send, on without end, their joyful tone to every home (repeat) …

Gayly they ring …

Merry, merry, merry, merry Christmas …

On, on they send …

(End with) Hear the bells ring, Christ the Savior is born! Hallelujah!

Carol of the Bells, adapted and arranged by David Hamilton, from the Ukrainian “Shchedryk” by Mykola Leontovich , sung by Sandi Patty