Show MERRY CHRISTMAS A merry merry christmas and a happy bright new year 1 how sweet the kind old greetings sound in every heart and ear no matter how care burden d and no matter how depressed A something in their welcome makes them dear to every breast we heard them in our childhood when with pints light and gay we dreamed not that life s joyfulness could ever pass away and though long years of carefulness have sobered many a heart A joy still lingers round them which can never quite depart As fits the solemn As fits the holy birth be this kind friend our carol still be peace on earth be peace on earth to men of gentle will WJ am makepeace ay |