Simple Gifts
Though the gift be small and simple
if the wish is wide
just the simple gift of giving
makes you warm inside.
Though the thought is ever fleeting
if a thought at all
remember all the mighty big things
started out as small.
So if you’ve a gift worth giving
let it be your smile
let it be a kindly word
that makes a stranger stop awhile.
Let it be a simple gift then
if the wish is wide
just the simple gift of giving
makes you warm inside.© 1965 by Stanyan Music &
Rod McKuen
A Hand To Hold at Christmas
Everybody needs
A Hand To Hold At Christmas
All of us could use
A friendly smile
A pretty holly wreath
With presents underneath
And most of all.
A Hand To Hold At Christmas.
Everybody needs
A Hand To Hold At Christmas
All of us could use
A friendly grim
A word or two of cheer
To finish up the year
But most of all.
A Hand To Hold At Christmas.
When the sidewalk Santa’s
Start their jingle jangle jingle
And all the streets
Are silver and gold
Winter ‘s not a wonderland
unless you feel a tingle
And walking’s only walking
without a hand to hold.
Everybody needs
A Hand To Hold At Christmas
Each of us could use
A happy heart
A tug upon the sleeve
Come Christmas eve
And best of all.
A Hand To Hold At Christmas.
© 1965 by Rod McKuen & Stanyan Music
The Carol of Christmas
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The Carols of Christmas,
Are warming the winter night
And what man among us
Has not seen the star so bright
That shines up above
A symbol of love
And all that is good and right.
The Carols Of Christmas
Float through the air
And warm up the winter night
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The wreath of bright holly
That covers the Christmas door
A symbol of union
In things that have gone before
Like hope and a handshake
Ties that will not break
All this and so much more
The Carols Of Christmas
Float through the air
The same as in days of yore.
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The Carols Of Christmas,
Are warming the winter night
And what man among us
Has not seen the star so bright
That shines up above
A symbol of love
And all that is good and right.
The Carols Of Christmas
Float through the air
Are warm up the winter night
©1971 by Rod McKuen & Editions Chanson Music
Thank You For Christmas
Thank You For Christmas
The first one I remember
That was more than just another day
Deep in December.
Back came the holidays
The ones I told goodbye
Until you paused a moment
And looked me in the eye.
And thank you for what I thought
I’d never find
Christmas of a kind
I’d conjured in my mind.
As for the lights of town
Like Christmas down the hill
Off beyond the darkest night
I can see them still.
I suppose that I knew even then
Christmas is for little boys
And not for grown up men
Still for a time in the year
That we’ve just passed
I wanted you to know
You gave me Christmas at last.
© 1970 by Rod McKuen & Editions Chanson Music. |
