Tune Req: I Believe in Father Christmas

Subject: Tune Req: Christmas song
From: GUEST
Date: 07 Dec 04 - 10:55 PM

I'm hearing a Christmas song on television (an add for Bell Express). It starts off, "I remember one Christmas morning....". I've heard it only a few times in the past and would really like to know who did it and the title if possible. It sounds older....like the STRAWBS......... but my search of their discography came up nil. Please help.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Christmas song
From: Cluin
Date: 08 Dec 04 - 12:48 AM

It's Emerson, Lake, & Palmer's "I Believed in Father Christmas". I referred to it recently in this thread.

Here's the full lyric.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Christmas song
From: GUEST
Date: 08 Dec 04 - 01:33 AM

Brilliant.

Many thanks.

Subject: Lyr Add: I BELIEVE IN FATHER CHRISTMAS
From: MMario
Date: 08 Dec 04 - 08:56 AM

Just for reference in case the other sit4e goes down:

I BELIEVE IN FATHER CHRISTMAS
Greg Lake

(Greg Lake/ Peter Sinfield)

They said there'll be snow at Christmas,
They said there'll be peace on earth,
But instead it just kept on raining,
A veil of tears for the Virgin birth.

I remember one Christmas morning,
The Winter's light and a distant choir,
And the peal of a bell and that Christmas tree smell,
And eyes full of tinsel and fire.

They sold me a dream of Christmas,
They sold me a silent night,
They told me a fairy story,
'Til I believed in the Israelite.

And I believed in Father Christmas,
And I looked to the sky with excited eyes,
Then I woke with a yawn in the first light of dawn,
And I saw him and through his disguise.

I wish you a hopeful Christmas,
I wish you a brave New Year,
All anguish, pain and sadness,
Leave your heart and let your road be clear.

They said there'd be snow at Christmas,
They said there'd be peace on earth,
Hallelujah! Noel!, be it Heaven or Hell,
The Christmas we get, we deserve.