NOEL: CHRISTMAS EVE, 1913 Music & Lyrics by Bridges and Holdridge Sung
by John Denver on A Christmas Together (1979)
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A frosty Christmas eve, when the stars where shining
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I traveled forth alone, where westward falls the hill
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And for many, many a village, in the darkness of the valley
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Distant music reached me, peals of bells were ringing.
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Then spread my thoughts to olden times, to that first of Christmases
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When shepherds who were watching, heard music in the fields
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And they sat there and they marveled, and they knew they could not tell
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Whether it were angels, or the bright stars a-singing
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But to me heard a far, it was starry music
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The singing of the angels, the comfort of our lord
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Words of old that come a traveling, by the riches of the times
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And I softly listened, as i stood upon the hill
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And I softly listened, as i stood upon the hill