DESCRIPTION:
A Christmas Carol.
Available at CDBaby.. http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/inlandviews2
https://itunes.apple.com/ca/album/hallelujahs-sweet-sound-single/id720912914
There is also a version of this song done at pitch A432 at CD Baby. http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/inlandviews3

Faces are smiling there's joy in the air
Families are gathering for meals they will share
The stores are all open, they welcome us all

There's presents to wrap, some for the mail
We're all just so busy, a part of the tale
And off in the distance, bells start to ring

chorus:
Christmas is coming, there's snow on the ground
Churches are singing hallelujah's sweet sound

There's a piece of the Christ child in every lost soul
A promise of hope, the broken made whole
The spirit of Christmas, good will to us all

Think of this child, born long ago
Simple words spoken from small seeds will grow
A whole book of stories, each one worth a song

chorus:
chorus:

Please don't forget what it's really about
Sorrow can end, peace can break out
Look to the light over Bethlehem
It's the spirits north star, shines like a gem
Jesus was born on a cold winter's night
He's there in that star, the souls only light; the souls only light

Hallelujah (x 4)
Merry Christmas
© Kent Roger Ellaschuk, 2013

My thanks to the following photographers who have placed their photos into the Public Domain, through Wikimedia Commons. Pic info is in the order they appear.
20: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bartolom%C3%A9_Esteban_Perez_Murillo_023.jpg
23: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Der_Soldat_auf_Urlaub_in_der_Bauernstube.jpg
3: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hamleys_London.jpg
4: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Geschenke-2007.JPG
31: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sky-church-steeple_-_West_Virginia_-_ForestWander.jpg
32: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Winter_south_Hebron.jpg
29: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sandro_Botticelli_-_Mary_with_the_Child_and_Singing_Angels_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg
27: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Houndsditch.jpg
11: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%D0%A1%D1%83%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2_%D0%AE%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%B2%D1%8B%D0%B9,_%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%B4%D1%8F%D1%89%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D1%81%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%B3%D1%83._1885.jpg
12:http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Anonymous_18th_century_Birth_of_Christ.jpg
14:http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cristo_Redentor_-_Rio.jpg
13: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jacob_de_Backer_-_The_Nativity_-_WGA1127.jpg
19: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Govert_Flinck_-_Aankondiging_aan_de_herders.jpg
26: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Christmas_Lisbon_2005_e.JPG
9:http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sagrada_familia_-_artesania_tobate%C3%B1a.JPG
18: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:UN_art_1b.JPG
17: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eso1035c.jpg
24: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flight_into_Egypt_assisi.jpg
21: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Le_poeme_de_lAme-16-Louis_Janmot-MBA_Lyon-IMG_0499.jpg
28: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Two_Angels_Singing_by_Benjamin_West,_PRA.jpg
25: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Andrea_Mantegna_%28Italian_%28Paduan%29_-_Adoration_of_the_Magi_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg
22: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Le_poeme_de_lAme-17-Louis_Janmot-MBA_Lyon-IMG_0500.jpg