New Christmas/Solstice/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa songs

Subject: RE: New Xmas/Solstice/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa Songs
From: Haruo
Date: 18 Nov 02 - 12:56 AM

So far nobody seems to have put any Kwanzaa stuff in this thread (and it is Kwanzaa, not Kwansaa, maybe a Joe Clone could tweak the thread title so it'll come up in a correctly spelled Forum Search?) but I just got an ad in my Hotmail Junkmail for a Kwanzaa CD, and there are mp3 samples you can listen to at their website (http://www.essenceofkwanzaa.com).

BTW, Swahili speakers routinely have problems with the word "Kwanzaa"; if it were a Swahili word it would be pronounced as three syllables, with the stress on the "za": kwan-ZA-a. But it's an English word. I proposed that the Swahili for "Kwanzaa" should be "Kwaanza", and this has met with general approval among the limited Souaheliphone circles that have seen my proposal. But there are tens of millions of Swahili speakers out there who have not had the benefit of my counsel (and probably most of them have never heard of Kwanzaa anyway).

Haruo (or, in Swahili, Lilendi)

Subject: RE: New Xmas/Solstice/Hanukkah/Kwansaa Songs
From: Genie
Date: 17 Nov 02 - 10:23 PM

The thread titles Advent Candle Songs has lyrics and MIDIs for several newer advent songs:

One Candle Is Lit ("Come surely, Lord Jesus")   (Mary Anne Parrott)
Light one candle to watch for the messiah (Wayne L. Wold)

and others.

Subject: RE: New Xmas/Solstice/Hanukkah/Kwansaa Songs
From: katlaughing
Date: 15 Nov 02 - 11:24 PM

I just posted Knopfler's Ragpicker's Dream and, now that I have the CD (there is a review thread about it, just put "ragpicker" in the thread title search) I really like it and it is a Christmas song.

kat

Subject: RE: New Xmas/Solstice/Hanukkah/Kwansaa Songs
From: Genie
Date: 15 Nov 02 - 10:22 PM

Subject: RE: New Xmas/Solstice/Hanukkah/Kwansaa Songs
From: Genie
Date: 14 Nov 02 - 09:33 PM

   Raise Your Voices In The Song (Christmas)

Genie

Subject: RE: New Xmas/Solstice/Hanukkah/Kwansaa Songs
From: Genie
Date: 14 Nov 02 - 07:35 PM

MMario, I will post the lyrics to "Raise Your Voices In The Song" here if you will post the MIDI for it. And thanks for the good word, Capri and MMario. I gotta say, though, that I wish I knew how to show via a MIDI the rhythm, crescendos, harmonies, etc., that are supposed to be part of this song. (How do you indicate a guitar slap on a MIDI?)

Genie

Subject: RE: New Xmas/Solstice/Hanukkah/Kwansaa Songs
From: MMario
Date: 14 Nov 02 - 12:56 PM

you too?

Subject: RE: New Xmas/Solstice/Hanukkah/Kwansaa Songs
From: CapriUni
Date: 14 Nov 02 - 12:39 PM

From Genie:

I just sent Aine a Christmas carol I wrote.

I just want to say that this song of hers is excellent. I've woken up with the chorus running through my head two days in a row, now... Keep your eyes peeled for it in the Songbook!

Subject: RE: New Xmas/Solstice/Hanukkah/Kwansaa Songs
From: CapriUni
Date: 14 Nov 02 - 12:35 PM

I have heard this by Bryan Bowers and Rosalie Sorrels.
I believe the lyrics have also been done as "sweet maple sugar"
it is perhaps an after-christmas carol...

Or evwn a pre-Christmas carol, for some people -- especially those who work in retail, and have the job of putting up all those

Dreary Christmas decorations

and have to listen all day to canned Christmas carols, all day, every day for two months...

Subject: Lyr Add: HOT BUTTERED RUM (Tommy Thompson)
From: open mike
Date: 13 Nov 02 - 12:40 PM

also red clay ramblers' Hot Buttered Rum-which i sang for the
band of that same name (H.B.R.) who had never heard it...

HOT BUTTERED RUM

Tommy Thompson from the Red Clay Ramblers

CHORUS

    In the dead of winter
    When the silent snow birds come
    You're my sweet maple syrup honey,
    Hot buttered rum

VERSE ONE
When chimney smoke hangs still and low
Across the stubbled fields of snow
And angry skies reach out to seize
The sorry black bones of trees

CHORUS ONE

In the dead of winter
When the silent snow birds come
You're my sweet maple syrup honey,
Hot buttered rum

VERSE TWO

Dreary Christmas decorations
Line the streets and filling stations
Dime store santas can't disguise
Their empty hands and empty eyes

CHORUS TWO

In the dead of winter
When those tinsel angels come
You're my sweet maple syrup honey,
Hot buttered rum

VERSE THREE

When gloves and boots and woolen parkas
Bring cold comfort to the heart
When bitter memories freeze the tongue
Songs of love were left unsung

CHORUS THREE
In the dead of winter when the
Cold feelings come
You're my sweet maple syrup honey,
Hot buttered rum

REPEAT CHORUS ONE


I have heard this by Bryan Bowers and Rosalie Sorrels.
I believe the lyrics have also been done as "sweet maple sugar"
it is perhaps an after-christmas carol...

Subject: RE: New Xmas/Solstice/Hanukkah/Kwansaa Songs
From: Stephen L. Rich
Date: 13 Nov 02 - 12:32 PM

Try the Ren and Stimpy song, "Happy!Happy! Joy!Joy!". That should cover everything. *G*

Subject: Lyr Add: WE'RE GONNA SING
From: open mike
Date: 13 Nov 02 - 12:19 PM

This one is by Connie Kaldor and BIM
from their album new songs for an old celebration


WE'RE GONNA SING

If you see us coming up the walk,
Better run & open the door,
Put the shortbread on the plate,
Get the eggnog ready to pour,
And get your voices ready,
Cuz you're gonna want to sing along,
When you hear those neighborhood carollers,
Sing your favorite Christmas songs.

CHORUS

We're gonna sing Joy to the World,
We're gonna sing Hark the Herald,
We're gonna sing Deck the Halls,
And It Came Upon a Midnight Clear,
We're gonna sing every Christmas Carol,
That we can remember,
We're gonna end with a Merry Christmas,
and a Happy New Year.

Some of us can sing in tune,
The others sing loud and clear,
We've got a version of We Three Kings,
You've really got to hear.

Bless the house that has welcomed us,
And shared its Christmas cheer,
Joy to all of the hearts within,
All throughout the year.
Good luck to all of us carollers,
As down the road we go,
May we be warmed by the toddy,
And the joys of the mistletoe.

CHORUS

should i do an LYRICS ADD with this??
Laurel

Subject: RE: New Christmas Songs
From: Genie
Date: 13 Nov 02 - 11:48 AM

My thanks to Charley Noble for posting this one:

    Suddenly It's Christmas    (Wainright, adapted by Ipcar)

Subject: RE: New Xmas/Solstice/Hanukkah/Kwansaa Songs
From: Genie
Date: 13 Nov 02 - 11:23 AM

Here's the new solstice carol from CapriUni:
Raise All Your Voices

It's a lovely new song of the season!

Genie

Subject: RE: New Xmas/Solstice/Hanukkah/Kwansaa Songs
From: CapriUni
Date: 13 Nov 02 - 10:18 AM

Link to the thread, Genie, please?

Subject: RE: New Xmas/Solstice/Hanukkah/Kwansaa Songs
From: Genie
Date: 13 Nov 02 - 02:33 AM

Here's one by Bert, which he mentioned in another thread:

Stars And Snowflakes

Subject: New Xmas/Solstice/Hanukkah/Kwansaa Songs
From: Genie
Date: 12 Nov 02 - 07:23 PM

Anyone got any seasonal songs of your own creation or by other artists, but which have not been widely heard to date?

CapriUni recently shared with us a new Solstice song she wrote, and I just sent çine a Christmas carol I wrote. (Interestingly, the two songs have nearly identical titles, though they were written almost 10 years apart and quite independently of each other.)

Songs from non-Mudcatters are welcome, too, as long as they're not yet well known. (Posting links to other threads for better-known but "new" carols is fine.)

I'm especially interested in hearing compositions of other Mudcatters. Of course, some of us have written irreverent parodies of well-known Christmas songs for Aine's Song Challenge!s in the past. But I'm also interested in the serious songs.


If you have one, could you post it here or post a link to it, if it's in another thread?

Thanks,

Genie