Christmas Carol Lyrics - Come Darkness Come Light: Twelve Songs Christmas - Mary Chapin Carpenter

The week before Thanksgiving Day 

This town puts up its old display 

Streetlights hung with candy canes and bows 

The earlier it gets each year 

The scarcer is my Christmas cheer 

I guess I just like taking these things slow 

I really don't remember much 

Of Christmasses growing up 

Except the year the Beatles came to play 

On my record player that came from Sears 

That White Album filled my ears 

In 1968 on Christmas Day 

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I haven't been to church since God knows when 

I'm not someone who usually attends 

Truth be told there's just two wishes 

On my list every Christmas 

Peace on earth and a snow storm now and then 

Now I pray that peace comes in our time 

It's hard enough to keep from crying 

When every bit of news just breaks your heart 

The same old stories, same old songs 

We dust them off when Christmas comes 

And for one day we just try to do our part 

And around here winter seems to come 

With rain and mud and bits of sun 

It's not exactly Currier and Ives 

I don't mind cold if it brings snow 

Alberta Clippers coem and go 

But a dursting would make everything all right 

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Perhaps a Christmas eve from long ago 

Delivered Christmas day with knee-high snow 

It's something lost but not forgotten 

Like candy hidden in a stocking 

That makes me every year wish it were so 

Because Christmas is for children's joy 

For every single girl and boy 

That's the truth we come to understand 

But the memories that don't let go 

Like Beatles songs and falling snow 

Can make us feel innocent again 

And maybe next year we won't go insane 

When they rush to hang the bows and candy canes 

Because peace will shine in me and you 

From Bethlehem to Timbuktu 

Even if the forecast is for rain 

Because peace will shine in me and you 

From Bethlehem to Timbuktu 

Even if the forecast is for rain