This is my entry for the December Lyrics contest - oh wait - there is no December Lyrics contest is there? Oh well, any feedback is welcome. It's meant to go with a traditional English song like you'd hear in a Charles Dickens movie.
We Don't Have to Cancel Christmas this Year
Copyright © Tennyson Road Music 2013
{short piano intro}
Up in Santa's village one year they had a problem
With the Grandfather clock that shows when Christmas is here
Mrs. Santa told them: "The pendulum is frozen.
So we might have to cancel Christmas this year"
{the elves chant..}
We can't be late for Christmas, not even for a minute!
We might have have to cancel Christmas this year!
The problem so perplexed her, until somebody text'd her
Who claimed to be an expert in such magical things
He said "Your clock stopped ticking 'cause Christmas love is missing,
And only Christmas love can make that pendulum swing"
{the elves..}
The magic clock needs fixing 'cause Christmas love is missing
And only Christmas love can make the pendulum swing
So based on its condition, she came to a decision
"We'll hold a competition" (she heard the elves all cheer)
"Any elf can win it if you can find love in it
We might not have to cancel Christmas this year"
{elves...}
Anyone can win it if we can find love in it
We might not have to cancel Christmas this year!
They went all around the planet asking all the children in it
If they had a little love that he or she could loan
And after they discussed it, He was careful not to drop it
As he put it in his pocket and he headed home
{bridge}
Oh it was quite a sight to see!
An endless line of red and green!
Each elf would wait so patiently
Until the time arrived when he, .. or she, would
Reach into their pocket, (being careful not to drop it)
and place the precious love inside the magical clock
But when the line had done its hauling, it seemed that time had come to stalling
And if a pine needle were falling, you could hear it drop!
{stop...}
{you can hear the clock slowly start a tick/tock sound...}
Sticking hands - they started moving!,
Ticking sounds - they started soothing!
Tinkling chimes - they started proving it was Christmas Eve!
Then the bells they started ringing!
The pendulum was swinging!
And Santa's sleigh was brimming - it was time to leave!
Now, before this song gets boring, the moral of this story
Is that life is just a boardgame that we're playing here
If we can find love in it, then anyone can win it
And we don't have to cancel Christmas this year!
If we can find love in it,
...even for a minute.....{tick tock tick tock!}
We don't have to cancel Christmas this year!!!!!
