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Bringing In A Brand New Year.

Wishing all our readers at home and worldwide, a Happy New Year From Thurles, Co. Tipperary.

“Bringing In A Brand New Year”

Vocals: Riley B. King (known professionally as B.B. King.)
Lyrics: Charles Brown.

Bringing In A Brand New Year

At the stroke of midnight,
On that great big holiday,
We’re going to have a ball, and that ain’t all.
I’m gonna chase my blues away.
I’ll be bringin’ in a brand new year,
Bringin’ in a brand new year,
So listen dear, won’t you meet me here,
While I’m bringin’ in a brand new year.
Gonna be a great big parade,
I got my resolution made.
Gonna ride above the stars,
We might even take a trip to mars.
I’ll be bringin’ in a brand new year,
Bringin’ in a brand new year.
So listen dear, won’t you meet me here,
While bringin’ in a brand new year.
Oh sailin’ down on a rainbow,
I’ll flirt with lady moon.
If she sighs or winks her eye,
I won’t be back ’til June.
I’ll be bringin’ in a brand new year,
Bringin’ in a brand new year,
So listen dear, won’t you meet me here,
While I’m bringin’ in a brand new year.
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We Are The World

We Are The World

Lyrics: Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie

Vocalists: [In order of appearance] Lionel Richie, Stevie Wonder, Paul Simon, Kenny Rogers, James Ingram, Tina Turner, Billy Joel, Michael Jackson, Diana Ross, Dionne Warwick, Willie Nelson, Al Jarreau, Bruce Springsteen, Kenny Loggins, Steve Perry, Daryl Hall, Huey Lewis, Cyndi Lauper, Kim Carnes, Bob Dylan and Ray Charles.

We Are The World

There comes a time when we heed a certain call.
When the world must come together as one.
There are people dying.
Oh, when it’s time to lend a hand to life.
The greatest gift of all.

We can’t go on pretending day by day,
That someone, somewhere will soon make a change.
We are all a part of God’s great big family,
And the truth, you know,
Love is all we need.

We are the world, we are the children.
We are the ones who make a brighter day,
So let’s start giving.
There’s a choice we’re making,
We’re saving our own lives.
It’s true, we’ll make a better day,
Just you and me.

Well, send them your heart so they’ll know that someone cares,
And their lives will be stronger and free.
As God has shown us by turning stone to bread,
And so we all must lend a helping hand.

We are the world, we are the children.
We are the ones who make a brighter day,
So let’s start giving.
Oh, there’s a choice we’re making,
We’re saving our own lives.
It’s true, we’ll make a better day,
Just you and me.

When you’re down and out, and there seems no hope at all,
But if you just believe, there’s no way we can fall.
Well, well, well,
Let us realize, oh, that a change can only come,
When we stand together as one.

We are the world, we are the children.
We are the ones who make a brighter day,
So let’s start giving.
Oh, there’s a choice we’re making,
We’re saving our own lives.
It’s true, we’ll make a better day,
Just you and me.
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Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas.

Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas.

Lyrics: American Musical Theater & Film Composer, Arranger, Vocal Coach, & Playwright Hugh Martin.
Vocals: American singer-songwriter Alan Jackson.

Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas.

Have yourself a merry little Christmas,
Let your heart be light.
From now on,
Our troubles will be out of sight.
Have yourself a merry little Christmas,
Make the Yule-tide gay.
From now on,
Our troubles will be miles away.
Here we are as in olden days,
Happy golden days of yore.
Faithful friends who are dear to us,
Gather near to us once more.
Through the years we all will be together,
If the fates allow.
Hang a shining star upon the highest bough,
And have yourself a merry little Christmas now.
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The Manger.

The Manger.

Lyrics: Matthew West; Jeffrey Thomas Pardo; Anne Catherine Wilson.
Vocals: Anne Wilson, Josh Turner

They’re puttin’ decorations up in front of my old church,
The shepherds and the wise men and the hay.
There’s Joseph and his Mary lookin’ down at Heaven’s birth,
And the angel’s sayin’, “Don’t you be afraid”.
It makes me stop and think about how You showed up down here,
In a humble bed made of nails and wood.
You could have picked a palace, somethin’ more fit for a King,
But then the story wouldn’t be as good.

From the highest of the high,
To the lowest of the low,
That stable tells a story of the distance You will go.
For the lonely and the lost,
There’s no sinner too far gone to find a Savior,
Lyin’ in the manger.
There’s a star up in the sky that’s callin’ all the least of these,
Come make Your way to where Your hope is found.
If I’m honest, some days I feel too far out of reach,
But the manger reminds me love reached down.
From the highest of the high,
To the lowest of the low,
That stable tells a story of the distance You will go,
For the lonely and the lost.
There’s no sinner too far gone to find a Savior,
Lyin’ in the manger.
You were carried by a manger and just thirty-three years later,
By a rugged cross made from nails and wood,
And the tears fill up my eyes, You didn’t have to give Your life,
But then the story wouldn’t be as good.
From the highest of the high,
To the lowest of the low,
That stable tells a story of the distance You will go,
For the lonely and the lost.
There’s no sinner too far gone to find a Savior,
Lyin’ in the manger.
Away in a manger, no crib for a bed,
The little Lord Jesus laid down His sweet head.
The stars in the sky looked down where He lay,
The little Lord Jesus, asleep on the hay.

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