Start with a traditional Song It's Latin!The text means: Blessed is he who comes, in the name of God

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Benedictus qui est venit
In nomine Domine
In nomine
In nomine
In nomine Domine
In nomine Domine
In nomine
In nomine
In nomine Domine

Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord
In the name of the Lord
In the name
In the name
In the name of the Lord
In the name of the Lord
In the name
In the name
In the name of the Lord

Move on to John Mccutcheon

My name is Francis Tolliver. I come from Liverpool.
Two years ago the war was waiting for me after school.
To Belgium and to Flanders, to Germany to here,
I fought for King and country I love dear.
It was Christmas in the trenches
where the frost so bitter hung.
The frozen field of France were still,
no Christmas song was sung.
Our families back in England were toasting us that day,
their brave and glorious lads so far away.
I was lyin' with my mess-mates on the cold and rocky ground
when across the lines of battle came a most peculiar sound.
Says I "Now listen up me boys", each soldier strained to hear
as one young German voice sang out so clear.
"He's singin' bloddy well you know", my partner says to me.
Soon one by one each German voice joined in in harmony.
The cannons rested silent. The gas cloud rolled no more
as Christmas brought us respite from the war.

Christmas In the Trenches

Continue with one of my favorite radio stations .... great way to spend Christmas Day!

For over three decades, WXPN listeners have depended on "the quiet sounds of Sleepy Hollow" to ease them gently into their weekends. Hosted by Chuck Elliott , Keith Kelleher (Sunday 6-8am) and and Julian Booker (Sunday 8AM-11AM), Sleepy Hollow features a spectrum of artists - from Miles Davis, Tom Waits and Joni Mitchell to Chet Baker, Norah Jones and Nick Drake. Musically, Sleepy Hollow blends jazz, folk, instrumental, and contemporary acoustic music where mood and music combine to create a warm and relaxing weekend morning experience.

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Now you may be in the mood for MY BACK PAGES holiday show
(choose .... MBP 278, Christmas and Holiday-related)

A veteran of 12 plus years working for an NPR all-music affiliate in Boston, Barnes Newberry now brings his love of 60's and 70's folk and folk-rock to mvyradio. Schooled in the early days of those genres along with the singer-songwriter, country rock and blues movements, he created a specialty show in 2000 called Highway 61 Revisited that drew from mostly US, UK and Canadian artists that populated the commercial and underground airwaves back in the days of both AM and FM "underground" radio. In addition to his love of all-things-Bob Dylan, Barnes continues to add current artists to his extensive playlists who proudly cover songs from those bygone days to make the whole rich experience more contemporary and less a strict oldies format. The same themes and messages that dominated much of soundtrack of the 60's and 70's of protest and peace, of love and heartbreak, of political disillusionment and social changes are echoed by so many artists today and this is what his new My Back Pages show is all about. To Barnes, it is the spirit of that era that is both rock-solid and timeless.

Before his radio days, Barnes had a professional career as a medical social worker working in a South Shore area hospital. Then a career as a restaurant owner/ operator followed, where he soon turned that into a very successful musical venue called The Blackthorne Tavern. This was followed by a brief career in retail music sales at the same time Boston public radio beckoned. He claims his favorite Christmas present was a small transistor radio he got at age 11 which would be the start of a lifelong love of pursuing his musical muses, from the Everly Brothers, Roy Orbison, Del Shannon and Elvis, to the likes of Fairport Convention, Richard Thompson, Emmylou Harris, Gene Clark and The Byrds, Buffalo Springfield on to newer artists such as Jimmy LaFave, Steve Earle, and, Lucinda Williams. Then, of course, there is Bob Dylan and his legion of followers which will be the anchor of Barnes' show.

Wrap up your Christmas Eve with a little Peter, Paul and Mary
"Light One Candle"

Light one candle for the Maccabee children
Give thanks that their light didn't die!
Light one candle for the pain they endured
When their right to exist was denied!
Light one candle for the terrible sacrifice
Justice and freedom demand!
And light one candle for the wisdom to know
When the peacemaker's time is at hand!

Don't let the light go out!
It's lasted for so many years!
Don't let the light go out!
Let it shine through our love and our tears.

Light one candle for the strength we all need
To never become our own foe!
And light one candle for those who are suff'ring
Pain we learned so long ago!
Light one candle for all we believe in,
Let anger not tear us apart!
And light one candle to bind us together
With peace as the song in our heart!

Don't let the light go out!
It's lasted for so many years!
Don't let the light go out!
Let it shine through our love and our tears.

What is the memory that's valued so highly
That we keep it alive in that flame?
What's the commitment to those who have died
When we cry out they've not died in vain,
We have come this far, always believing
That justice will somehow prevail!
This is the burning. This is the promise,
This why we will not fail!

Don't let the light go out!
It's lasted for so many years!
Don't let the light go out!
Let it shine through our love and our tears.

Don't let the light go out!
Don't let the light go out!
Don't let the light go out!