Lyr Req: Spirit of Christmas (Steve Ashley)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Spirit of Christmas
From:
Date: 12 Nov 99 - 10:14 PM

Hi, Any chords to go with this????? Hummer

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Spirit of Christmas
From: Susanne (skw)
Date: 12 Nov 99 - 06:09 PM

Thanks from me, too! This is one I've always liked but, as I only have a cassette copy, thought I'd never manage to understand. Great help! - Susanne

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Spirit of Christmas
From: Wolfgang
Date: 12 Nov 99 - 07:32 AM

Stewie, let me first say thank you and then that you're amazing me. In the few couple of weeks you're here you have contributed so many fine lyrics to this forum (requested and unrequested) that I presume you have a vast collection at your hand or are very good at transcribing songs (from a vast collection of LPs and CDs). However it is, thanks a lot once more.

Wolfgang

Subject: Lyr Add: THE SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS (Steve Ashley)
From: Stewie
Date: 12 Nov 99 - 07:01 AM

Here you go, Wolfgang:

THE SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS

I am the ghost of Christmas past
The flicker within the fireplace
Plucking the letter from the hearth
Floating it on a snowflake

The man that pulls the bell rope down
Knows well that I am the ringer
Carol singing in the town
Will tell you that I am the singer

I am the ghost of Christmas past
Haunting in the evening
In wintertime the paths are dark
And travellers think they see things

I am the lonely cartwheel leaf
The creaking in the branches
I am the cheeky head scarf thief
Teaching the trees their dances

I am the ghost of Christmas past
Pleasure within the giver
Glowing within the welcome glass
The quiver within the shiver

I am the mitten on the hand
The head in the balaclava
I am the goodwill in the land
The invisible Christmas father

Author: Steve Ashley. Copyright Control

Source: Various Artists 'The Electric Muse: The Story of Folk into Rock' Island box set Folk 1001

All good things, Stewie.

Subject: Spirit of Christmas
From: Wolfgang
Date: 12 Nov 99 - 05:58 AM

Recent requests for 'Bells of Dublin' and "Stephen's day murder' made me recollect a 'Christmas song' I have on tape but am unable transcribe.
'Spirit of Christmas' from Steve Ashley with the line "I am the ghost of Christmas past". If anyone has the lyrics I'd be glad to see them here.

Wolfgang