FAVOURITE CHRISTMAS SONG # 31 - HAPPY HOLIDAY

 

Happy Holiday

Written By Irving Berlin

Performed By Andy Williams

 

Happy Holiday
Happy Holiday
While the merry bells keep ringing
May your every wish come true

Happy Holiday
Happy Holiday
May the calendar keep bringing
Happy Holidays to you

It's the holiday season
And Santa Claus is coming back
The Christmas snow is white on the ground
When old Santa gets into town
He'll be coming down the chimney, down
Coming down the chimney, down

It's the holiday season
And Santa Claus has got a toy
For every good girl and good little boy
He's a great big bundle of joy
He'll be coming down the chimney, down
Coming down the chimney, down

He'll have a big fat pack upon his back
And lots of goodies for you and me
So leave a peppermint stick for old St. Nick
Hanging on the Christmas tree

It's the holiday season
With the whoop-de-do and hickory dock
And don't forget to hang up your sock
'Cause just exactly at 12 o'clock
He'll be coming down the chimney
Coming down the chimney
Coming down the chimney, down!

Happy Holiday
Happy Holiday
While the merry bells keep bringing
Happy Holidays to you

Happy Holiday
Happy Holiday
May the calendar keep bringing
Happy Holidays to you
To you
Happy Holiday
Happy Holiday
Happy Holiday

YULETIDE GINGERBREAD

 

Ingredients:

3    cups Flour

1/2 cup Brown sugar, packed

1/2 cup Butter

3            Eggs

4 tbs      Milk

1/2 cup Light molasses

2 tbs      Dark molasses

2 tbs      Ground ginger

2 tsp      Ground cinnamon

1/4 tsp   Salt

2 tsp      Baking soda

 

Instructions:

Combine all the dry ingredients, except for the baking soda, in a large mixing bowl.

Put 3 tablespoons of milk into a large saucepan along with the butter and the light and dark molasses and Melt together over a low heat.

Beat the eggs and add them and the dry mixture to the melted ingredients and mix together.

Dissolve the baking soda in the remaining milk and then add to the other mixture.

Pour the mixture onto a greased 10-inch baking tin.

Bake for 45-50 minutes in a preheated oven (375F).

SEASONAL GREETINGS FROM AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST

 Arabic

Idah Saidan Wa Sanah Jadidah

Afrikaans

GeSëende Kersfees
Een Plesierige Kerfees

African (Eritrea, Tigrinja)

Rehus-Beal-Ledeats

African (Kwa, Yoruba)

E ku odun, e ku iye'dun

African (Chadic, Hausa)

Barka da Kirsimatikuma Barka da Sabuwar Shekara

Hebrew

Mo'adim Lesimkha. Chena tova

Iran (Farsi)

Cristmas-e-shoma mobarak bashad

Iraq

Idah Saidan Wa Sanah Jadidah

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS MANGER (2018)

 

Christmas Manger is the story of an elderly rancher called Chap (Steve J. Young) who grapples with the loss of his wife and the loneliness that accompanies it.

This is exacerbated because his daughter Laura (Tara Reid) is a Lawyer who lives and works in New York which allows him to isolate himself from his friends and neighbours.

That is until his estranged foster child Jessica (Andrea Logan White) re-enters his life with her two children, Spenser and Cassidy (Graham Schneider and Taylor Bedford), after leaving her abusive partner Eddie (Alexander Kane).

Though not initially welcome Chap has to concede to them staying until the New Year following a fall and this time facilitates the rekindling of an old romance between Jessica and old flame Tyler (Randy Wayne) and for Cassidy to get into her Grandpa’s heart, giving him a new purpose to live and so Rancher, foster family and the town come together for a wonderful Christmas.

FAVOURITE CHRISTMAS SONG # 29 - PEACE ON EARTH / LITTLE DRUMMER BOY

 

Peace on Earth

Written in 1982 by Larry Grossman and Buz Kohan

Little Drummer Boy

Written in 1958 by Katherine K. Davis, Henry Onorati and Harry Simeone

Performed by Bing Crosby David Bowie

 

Come they told me pa-rum-pum-pum-pum
A new-born king to see pa-rum-pum-pum-pum
Our finest gifts we bring pa-rum-pum-pum-pum
Rum-pum-pum-pum, rum-pum-pum-pum

Come they told me pa-rum-pum-pum-pum
A new-born king to see pa-rum-pum-pum-pum
Our finest gifts we bring pa-rum-pum-pum-pum
to lay before the king pa-rum-pum-pum-pum
Rum-pum-pum-pum, rum-pum-pum-pum
so to honour him pa-rum-pum-pum-pum
when we come

Little baby pa-rum-pum-pum-pum
I stood beside him there pa-rum-pum-pum-pum
I played my drum for him pa-rum-pum-pum-pum
I played my best for him pa-rum-pum-pum-pum
Rum-pum-pum-pum, rum-pum-pum-pum
And he smiled at me pa-rum-pum-pum-pum
me and my drum

Peace on Earth, can it be
Years from now, perhaps we'll see
See the day of glory
See the day, when men of good will
Live in peace, live in peace again

Peace on Earth, can it be
Every child must be made aware
Every child must be made to care
Care enough for his fellow man
To give all the love that he can

I pray my wish will come true
For my child and your child too
He'll see the day of glory
See the day when men of good will
Live in peace, live in peace again

Peace on Earth, can it be
Can it be

OH MY CHRISTMAS ANGEL

 

Oh my Christmas Angel

Won’t you here my plea

Oh Christmas Angel

Spend Christmas with me

 

Oh my Christmas Angel

Surely heaven sent

Oh Christmas Angel

Be my Christmas present

 

Oh my Christmas Angel

Wont you here my plea

Let me un-wrap you

Beneath the Christmas tree

 

Oh my Christmas Angel

Oh please hear me do?

Oh Christmas angel

Let me make a devil out of you

SCANDINAVIAN YULE BREAD

 

SCANDINAVIAN YULE BREAD

 

Ingredients:

2  pks   Dry yeast
¼ cup   Water (warmed)
1  pint   Milk
1  cup   Shortening
1  cup   Granulated sugar
1  tsp    Salt
2           Eggs (beaten)
2  tbs    Ground cardamom
7  cups  Flour (sieved)
2  cup   Candied fruit (floured)

 

Instructions:

Cream the shortening, sugar and salt together then add the cardamom and the beaten eggs.

Dissolve the yeast in the warm water the Scald the milk until lukewarm then combine the lukewarm and the softened yeast.

Then Blend in 3 cups flour beating until smooth Add the creamed shortening mixture and the remaining flour mixing until smooth.

Make dough that can be handled add 1 more cup of flour if necessary, then Add the candied fruit then knead well.

Allow to rise until it has doubled in size.

Turn out the dough onto a well-floured board and shape into loaves the dough should make three good sized loaves. Bake at 375 degrees F for 1 hour.