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NARRATION
Silent Night - that means Christmas to some people
Here comes Santa Claus here comes Santa Claus
That means Christmas to some people
A lot of people from different parts of the country and all over the world
Have different ways of celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ
The prophets of old had foretold of his coming for four thousand years
And a lot of people say that the wise men from the East were probably
astronomers
That may have studied the stars and knew that the new star that was going
To appear in the East a time of it was at hand
A lot of others of course say that they were told by God
That the star was about to appear so they could begin a long journey
From the East and were was the East
Some people say it could have been India some people speculate
That one of the wise men came from as far away as Korea all away cross Asia
And it must have been a coming for many months maybe
Maybe even years to get to the place where that new star
That was to hang over that manger in the town of Bethlehem
Ten miles from Jerusalem
Whatever the shepherds came in from the fields
And you know that it's really something that a shepherd would leave as flock
To come in for anything because that was really about a crime for a man to do
That as a shepherd to leave his flock of sheep
And come in for anything because the sheep were man's lively hood
The milk and the meat and the wool for the clothing
It really took something for a shepherd to leave a flock
And there were a lot of them that did it and came in to worship the new baby
Jesus That was born in the manger
The wise men came bearing gifts of gold frankincense and myrrh
And they brought them and they laid them at the foot of the manger where Jesus
lay
And you know the voice of God so the scriptures say
According to the scriptures had been silent for four hundred years
There had not been a divinely inspired prophet for four hundred years
And all of a sudden you can imagine what kind of night it must have been
For a new star to suddenly appear out of the heavens
And shepherds to leave their flock and men
Wealthy looking strangers come in from the East
And all of a sudden on top of all that for heavenly choir to start to singing
Singing voices from heaven,singing words of they understood
Words like peace on Earth good will to men - what a night it must have been
1.
KING OF LOVE
(Harold Reid)
« © '66 House Of Cash, BMI »
Jesus came there he lay in a manger of hay
The angels sang the shepherds came they knew not what the future held
They only knew they were compelled from up above a baby boy the king of love
He was a child he was the son he was a man among men
He was a prince he was divine he was the king of love
Jesus grew he was a child he traveled far in distant lands
His earthly parents by the hand they missed him now he did not hide
He told them I must confide I was at my father's side
He was a child he was the son...
Jesus died the world was dark not a sound was there to hark
The breath was gone he hung his head but wait let us rejoice
(For he has risen from the dead)
He was a child he was the son...
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NARRATION
[ Johnny ]
That's a night we are celebratin' at Christmas time
And according to Marshall Grant up in Flatts,North Carolina
They had their own way of celebratin' Christmas too
Marshall what did you get for Christmas say when you were six years old
[ Marshall]
When I was six years old about the biggest present that I could ever remember
gettin'
Was something like a little hatchet or a french harp
I remember one year that I got a hatchet and ole Dale got a french harp
He wanted my hatchet but I didn't want his french harp
But he got what he wanted and everything but their was fourteen of us
In that little house up in Flatts North Carolina
There was one thing that we did have and at that time of year that was love
All of us loved one another and it was cold
Always cold with the little fireplace but the room felt so warm
And it was really warm even though there was a lot of scrambling
Over the gifts that we got swapping backward and forth
From all the brothers and sisters
It was really warm in Flatts North Carolina always on Christmas
[ Johnny ]
I think probably a lot of people might wonder as I did where is Flatts North
Carolina
[ Marshall]
Well I tell you Flatts North Carolina it's about eighty miles from Ashville
And you go through Cherokee and Brison City
And you get to a little place called Maddy Hill in North Carolina
[ June ]
But that ain't it!
[ Marshall]
No
[ Johnny ]
Then you go up the wind
[ Marshall]
You take a little left there at Maddy Hill if you're goin' east
And you go up the windin' stairs for fourteen miles and you round about a dozen
bends
And all of a sudden, there is no sign, and if you ask anybody up there
Where Olson Grant lives that's Main Street
2.
JINGLE BELLS
(James Pierpont)
« © '53 Embassy Music, BMI »
Jingle bells jingle bells jingle all the way
Oh what fun it is to ride in a one horse open sleigh hey
Jingle bells jingle bells jingle all the way
Oh what fun it is to ride in a one horse open sleigh
Oh dashin' through the snow in a one horse open sleigh
Over the fields they go dancing all the way
Bells on bobtails ring making spirits bright
Oh what fun to ride and sing a sleighin' song tonight
Oh jingle bells jingle bells...
Well a day or two ago I thought I'd take a ride
And soon Miss Penny Bright was seated by my side
Her horse was lean and light misfortune seemed his lot
We got into a drifted bank and away we got us sucked
Hey jingle bells jingle bells...
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NARRATION
[ Johnny ]
I remember teaching my brother Tommy shoot fire crackers
Both of us gettin' our fingers busted you remember that Tommy
Daddy started Christmas morning with a stick of dynamite
And he made sure everybody else was up
[ Tommy ]
When daddy gets up he wants to make sure everybody else in the world is up too
[ Johnny ]
He did when we were kids and when he could get dynamite bang Joy To The World
Don: What was is like up in the state of Virginia about that time of the year
Harold
[ Harold ]
Oh we had I guess about like everybody's Christmas it's always that Christmas
feeling
I remember one year I had an uncle that came in filled with the spirit
And he was loving all us kids and we's tryin' to get away from him
And he fell in the Christmas tree and knocked it over
We stood him up in the corner and decorated him
I don't remember what I got that year but I remember what he got
My mama ran him out of the house finally
3.
THAT CHRISTMAS FEELING
(Jimmy Peppers - Tommy Cash)
« © '72 Johnny Bienstock Music, BMI »
There's a choir outside of my house singin' Silent Night
For any little thing that's gone wrong Christmas makes it right
The children are singing Christmas carols and everybody's holdin' hands
We've got that Christmasy feeling again
Singin' Joy To The World and Here Comes Santa Claus
Mama's bakin' turkey and daddy's makin' popcorn balls
And sister's hangin' mistletoe there's good will to all men
We've got that Christmasy feeling again
There's happiness in my heart with Christmas on its way
With the family all back together again oh what a happy day
I hope it snows and the north wind blows my boy wants a little toy train
We've got that Christmasy feeling again
Joy To The World...
Joy To The World...
We've got that Christmasy feeling again
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Hey there Larry how bout you doin' on that piano
Larry Butler says he plays a piono twenty hours a day
4.
MY MERRY CHRISTMAS SONG
(Larry Butler)
« © '72 Tree Publishing, BMI »
[ instrumental ]
[ Larry Butler - piano ]
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5.
MERRY CHRISTMAS MARY
(Larry Lee - Glenn D. Tubb)
« © '72 Dream City Music, BMI »
Merry Christmas Mary thank you for the child
Thank you for Lord Jesus thank you for the child
Christmas time is here again peace on Earth good will to men
The air is filled with joyful sounds merry wishing all around
Giving and receiving gifts stopping by to thank all of our friends
And we thank you Mary for helping give God's greatest gift to man
Merry Christmas Mary thank you for the child
Thank you for Lord Jesus thank you for the child
Merry Christmas Mary to often we forget
To thank you for your part in giving the greatest Christmas present yet
Merry Christmas Mary
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NARRATION
[ Johnny ]
How did how did pop Carter which is June's father
Mama how did he celebrate Christmas when you were first married
[ Maybelle]
When we first married
[ June]
Mama he did have a great big old copper kettle somewhere hid up in the mountains
[ Maybelle]
June can tell you that story John
But I will tell you that he used to go by a bushel of apples
And a bushel of oranges and fruits like that for the girls
And we divided in three three ways and they could do what they wanted to
If they want to give it away okay they couldn't have the rest of the others
Their's had to last them through Christmas and you know
They couldn't go to one or the other girl and say
Hey give me some of your fruit mine's all gone
[ June]
I want to tell you that story about how you asked about the celebratin'
Back years ago they didn't have too much to celebrate with
Up in that country unless you made your own
And my father somewhere had hid the dandiest copper kettle with little pipes
Goin' out of orbit somewhere up in the hills
[ Harold ]
My uncle knew him
[ June]
And my grandmother Carter was quite a woman
And she never said one word to my daddy
But she was always goin' into Clinch Mountain hunkin' wood
And draggin' it down on her back
And she came out of there one day draggin' that great big old forked stick
With a copper kettle right on the end of it
And she was my father's name was Ezra Carter and she'd say Ezra
She said ole Ezra said look here Ezra
I found the dandiest copper kettle for makin' apple butter
And he never said a word
[ Anita ]
And we always had good apple butter
6.
CHRISTMAS TIME'S A COMIN'
(Tex Logan)
« © '65 Unichappell Music, BMI »
Christmas time's a comin' Christmas time's a comin'
Christmas time's a comin' and I know I'm going home
Snowflakes are fallin' my old home's a callin'
Tall pines are humming Christmas time's a comin'
Can't you hear them bells ringing ringin' joy joy hear them singin'
When it's snowing I'll be going back to my country home
Christmas time's a comin'...
White candles burnin' my old heart's a yearnin'
For the folks at home when Christmas time's a comin'
Can't you hear them bells...
Hollies in the window home where the wind blows
I can't walk for runnin' Christmas time's a comin'
Can't you hear them bells...
Christmas time's a comin'...
Christmas time's a comin'...
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7.
CHRISTMAS WITH YOU
(Johnny Cash)
« © '72 Song Of Cash Music, ASCAP »
It's so nice to spend Christmas with you
The times that I've seen Christmas come and go are now two score
I wish you a merry Christmas and I wish you a many more
It's good to see the children laugh with joy the way they do
And it's nice to spend Christmas with you
That old fashioned Christmas is a sweet memory
Except for all the Christmasses that you weren't there with me
But now I really feel the spirit cause I love you like I do
And it's nice to spend Christmas with you
I remember Christmas when I little could afford
And I try to remember it's the birthday of our Lord
Well I'll not forget to thank him for his blessing's on me too
And that I can spend Christmas with you
That old fashioned Christmas...
It's so nice to spend Christmas with you
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8.
CHRISTMAS AS I KNEW IT
(June Carter - Jan Howard)
« © '63 Unichappell Music, BMI »
One day near Christmas when I was just a child
Mama called us all together and mama tried to smile
She said you know the cottoncrop hadn't been too good this year
There's just no spending money and well at least we're all here
I hope you won't expect a lot of Christmas presents
Just be thankful that there is plenty to eat we're all healthy
That'll make things a little more pleasant
And us kids got to thinking how really blessed we were
At least we were all healthy and best of all we had her
My brother Roy cut down a pigapple tree and we drug it home Jack and me
Daddy brought home some hickernuts and Louise made the bread
Reba decorated the tree with popcorn strings before we went to bed
Mama and daddy sacrificed cause this Christmas was lean
But after all there was the babies Joanne and Tommy and babies need a few things
I whittled a whistle for my brother Jack and though we fought now and then
When I gave Jack that whistle he knew I thought the world of him
Mama made the girl's dresses out of flower sacks and when she ironed them down
You couldn't tell that they hadn't come from town
A sharecropped family across the road didn't have it good as us
They didn't even have a light that Christmas night and it was way past dusk
Me and Jack took a jar of coaloil and some hickernuts we'd found
And walked over to the sharecropper's porch and set it all down
A poor old ragged lady eased open the door
She picked up the coaloil and hickernuts and said
I sure do thank ye and quickly closed the door
We started back home me and Jack
And about halfway we stopped and looked back
And in the sharecropper's window at last there burned a light
So for one of the neighbors and for us it was a good Christmas night
Christmas came and Christmas went Christmas that year was heaven sent
Then daddy put on his gumboots and we waited for the thaw
Back home that year in Dyess Arkansas merry Christmas mama
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9.
WHEN YOU ARE TWENTY ONE
(Carl Perkins)
« © '72 Unichappell Music, BMI »
[ Carl Perkins ]
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10.
OLD FASHIONED TREE
(A. Becker)
« © '72 House Of Cash, BMI »
[ Lew DeWitt ]
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NARRATION
You know when I was a kid at the end of that Christmas day like Carl says
We were all tired from chasin' somebody else's bicycle
Runnin' up and down the road or something
But I remember you know one of the biggest blessings
That I can remember from Christmas time was a radio
Like all year you know radio back then you didn't hear Christmas carols on every
There weren't even street corners there weren't street corners
And there weren't coral groups runnin' up and down the road
In front of your house singin' Christmas carols
And it's something that we take for granted now, but when I was a kid
It was a real privilege and a treat to hear Christmas carol
And about the end of Christmas day when we were all tired
And we'd had all we could eat
I remember sittin' down and turnin' on the radio
And hearin' the Christmas carols played on the radio stations all around
That we picked up in Northeast Arkansas
And it was a real thrill if we could hear a song like this
11.
SILENT NIGHT
(Franz Gruber - Joseph Mohr)
« © '53 Educational Graphics Press, BMI »
Silent night holy night all is calm all is bright
Round young virgin mother and child holy infant so tender and mild
Sleep in heavenly peace sleep in heavenly peace
Silent night holy night...
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