Category: Lyrics
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Ave Maria
Special thanks to Andy Williams for making this song sound so easy to sing that I…
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Silent Night
The words to this timeless classic were written by Father Joseph Mohr, a priest in the…
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Oh Holy Night
This song was not well received by the religious ‘authorities’ of the mid-nineteenth century. One French…
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Miriam
I first heard Pierce Pettis perform Miriam around 1992 and was stunned by the song’s poignant…
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O Come All Ye Faithful
Oh come all ye faithful, joyful and triumphant,Oh come ye, oh come ye to Bethlehem.Come and…
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I Heard the Bells On Christmas Day
When I read the words to this song to my daughter, Kate, she insisted I include…
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What Child Is This?
In arranging this song, I wanted to capture something of the mystery and danger of the…
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Away In A Manger
I believe this was the first song I sang as a solo in public. It was…
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It Came Upon a Midnight Clear
Many consider this song the first great American Christmas carol. If you think it is about…
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The World Was In His Hands
The seemingly fragile and ordinary mortality of the infant Jesus has always gripped my imagination. Really,…
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The First Nowell
Nowell is an early English spelling of noel, which itself is an even older French word…
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When At Night
When at night I go to sleepFourteen angels watch do keepTwo my head are guardingTwo my…
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Grandfather’s House
My grandfather lives by the oceanBy the waves and the wind and the rainIn a house…
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When He Comes
We’re a silent, snowy sight Frozen dark and blinding light Joining in some deep and magic…
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I Saw Your Prayer
I saw your prayer in another world It grew like a flower where spring is unfurled…
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The Son and the Angels
Angels were watching All through the night From the cold, starry heavens above While sleeping below…
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When Morning Comes
You think that love’s a distant landA fragile golden strandA pretty picture In some fairy taleBut…
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Diamond’s Lullaby
When Diamond was a babyAnd wise for one his ageHe met a certain ladyA kind and…
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My Empty Pockets
Here’s a story, there’s a rhymeDancing on a chorus lineIn this pocket full of picturesThere’s a…
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This Friend of Old
There you go, on the way to meet your fortune and your dreamsOn a road that…
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Hope Lies Still
I’ve dreamed all a man can dreamBelieved all a man can believeAnd I’ve seen those dreamsGo…
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Befriended
When the morning shines before youAnd your hope is on the riseAs the breath of spring…
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You Got Me Now
I’ve been a long time wantin’ to see youAnd you’ve been a long time waitin’ for…
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Part of Yesterday
I do believe I’m gonna have to say goodbye Though once I loved you There’s another…
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By the Way of the Sea
In the gloom of the night In a land where they have no dawn Where hatred…
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A Fool’s Condition
“Yet,” I said to myself, “I have now been often warned; surely I shall not be…
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Girls Like You
“…I’Il never cry for you again,“ said I. Which was, I suppose, as false a declaration…
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True Confession
Some men by feigned words, as dark as mine, make truth to spangle, and its rays…
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All I Want
It seemed to him that a mist which hung at the far end of the wood…
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(I Love It When You) Put Me Down
…True music, like true love, like all truth, laughs at the god Fashion, because it knows…
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Break The Big One (It’s OK)
Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I…
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How Could You Throw It All Away?
She had assured herself more than once… that Vronsky was no more to her than any…
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Watch Over Your Heart
A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his…
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The Feeling Part
O Music! sphere-descended maid! Friend of Pleasure, Wisdom’s aid!Why, goddess, why, to us denied, Layest thou…
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Someone To Trust
To know one person who is positively to be trusted, will do more for a man’s…
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Anything But Love
your brother and my sister no sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they…
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Song of Wholeness
Make me a real live boy.I want to be everything real a boy should beOh Jesus,…
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Not Going To Fall Away
Oh God, do you know I love you?You’re more than a friend to meMuch more than…
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Don’t Ever Say
I knew you when you were free to live in a fantasyUnspoiled by words and world…
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The Tongue Is A Fire
“Hey, what’s that you say now? Ooh! I hope I’m okay now.”You’ve got to believe I…
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Disposable Love
Don’t take it from me ’cause I’m not the one to say It’s you who told…
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Kicks
Well you thought you found the answer on that magic carpet ride last nightBut when you…
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The Getaway
In the moonlight you would trip meTry to fool me in the nightFor the darkness keeps…
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Hollywood High
Who’ll fall for Hollywood highLeave their reason, try to find the city of the starsBig bills…
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Nagging Optimism
I just won’t believe it, I know darkness when it comes I would have to see…
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Commercial Suicide
He was the prophet of a generationThey watched his every cryptic verbPeople everywhere in many nationsWould…
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Rather Be Wrong
Maybe I’m wrongSuppose everything you say is trueOr, you’re putting me onAnd making up every word…
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Best Friend
Many things I’ve doubted and oh,I’ve tried but now I know it with all of my…