SUFJAN STEVENS – Do You Hear What I Hear?

Do you see what I see? Do you see what I see?
Do you see what I see? Do you see what I see?

Said the night wind to the little lamb
Do you see what I see?
Way up in the sky little lamb
Do you see what I see?
A star, a star
Dancing in the night
With a tail as big as a kite
With a tail as big as a kite

Said the little lamb to the shepherd boy
Do you hear what I hear?
Ringing through the sky shepherd boy
Do you hear what I hear?
A song, a song
High above the tree
With a voice as big as the sea
With a voice as big as the sea

Said the shepherd boy to the mighty king
Do you know what I know?
In your palace wall mighty king
Do you know what I know?
A child, a child
Shivers in the cold
Let us bring him silver and gold
Let us bring him silver and gold

Said the king to the people everywhere
Listen to what I say
Pray for peace people everywhere
Listen to what I say
The child, the child
Sleeping in the night
He will bring us goodness and light
He will bring us goodness and light

Do you feel what I feel now?

SUFJAN STEVENS – Lumberjack Christmas / No One Can Save You From Christmases Past

Oh, no, the rugged soul
The great backyard and the cold North Pole
I resent that Santa went and
Left us in the Alamo
Would you like to stay a while and dance with me?
Would you like to wrap the gifts and have a drink?

The only condition (I know the one)
I’ve got the premonition (I’ve got a clue)
That Christmas is a vision (For Christmas)
Ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho
If drinking makes it easy (So pass one here)
The music’s kinda cheesy (And sing a cheer)
The specials on the TV (Especially)
Ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho

Dreams go and stay below
The cattle call and the old dark soul
I respect that Santa left
To save his kids from the winter cold
Would you like to stay a while and dance with me?
Mistletoe and chestnuts roasting on the street

The only condition (I know the one)
I’ve got the premonition (I’ve got a clue)
That Christmas is a vision (For Christmas)
Ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho
If drinking makes it easy (So pass one here)
The music’s kinda cheesy (And sing a cheer)
The specials on the TV (Especially)
Ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho

No one can save you from Christmases past
You’ll have to love it or leave it at last
No one can save you from Christmases past
You’ll have to love it or leave it at last
No one can save you from Christmases past
You’ll have to love it or leave it at last

SUFJAN STEVENS – Coventry Carol

Lullay, Thou little tiny Child
Bye, bye, lully, lullay
Lullay, Thou little tiny Child
Bye, bye, lully, lullay

O sisters too, how may we do
For to preserve this day
This poor youngling for whom we sing
Bye, bye, lully, lullay

Herod, the king, in his raging
Charged he hath this day
His men of might, in his own sight
All children young, to slay

Lullay, Thou little tiny Child
Bye, bye, lully, lullay
For thy parting neither say nor sing
Bye, bye, lully, lullay
That woe is me, poor Child for Thee!
Bye, bye, lully, lullay

SUFJAN STEVENS – Christmas Woman

Christmas is the time of year
When the patrons and the panthers
Come and commandeer
Christian, put away your fuss
With the tipping of the handlers
As the pagans must

I know for a century
We were scrambling to assemble
What a man believes
I know for a time I let
To believe that human kindness
Would prevail instead

Woman, have you lost your kind?
There are snakeskin stealers
Seething in the afterlife
Christian in the advent house
You confess the incarnation
With the breast turned out

Have you seen the Christ the king
Suckling nurseries in snakeskin
In the armored seat?
Christian, put away your woes
Welcome grief and crime and anguish
With the happiest host

Oh, I was thinking by myself
I was remembering
Every moment by the river
When it froze last night

And in the fullness of the moon
I felt the baby kick beside me
She was grabbing happy, healthy life

I lived it out to be a soldier
I was channeling Middle Ages
I was captured by the Norsemen rite

The sign that passeth comprehending
She was tending right beside me
She was captured in the midst of men

And then it kissed me on my shoulder
All the possibilities of motion
Resting rightly, right inside of me

SUFJAN STEVENS feat. Sebastian Krueger – Christmas Face

Though I try to find my own way
To make your Christmas face, your Christmas face
Your holly hair and tinsel eyes
My efforts will disgrace

And at this hour a reason to stay up
Making your Christmas face, your Christmas face
To catch the snow that we should know
Falls perfectly in place

SUFJAN STEVENS – Auld Lang Syne

Should old acquaintance be forgot
And never brought to mind?
Should old acquaintance be forgot
And days of auld lang syne?

For auld lang syne, my dear
For auld lang syne
We’ll take a cup of kindness yet
For auld lang syne

For auld lang syne, my dear
For auld lang syne
We’ll take a cup of kindness yet
For auld lang syne

SUFJAN STEVENS – A Holly Jolly Christmas

Have a holly jolly Christmas
It’s the best time of the year
I don’t know if there’ll be snow
But have a cup of cheer

Have a holly jolly Christmas
And when you walk down the street
Say hello to friends you know
And everyone you meet

Ho ho the mistletoe
Hung where you can see
Somebody waits for you
Kiss her once for me

Have a holly jolly Christmas
And in case you didn’t hear
Oh by golly have a holly jolly Christmas
This year

SUFJAN STEVENS – Ah Holy Jesus (With Reed Organ)

Ah, holy Jesus, how hast thou offended
That we to judge thee have in hate pretended?
By foes derided, by thine own rejected
O most afflicted

For me, kind Jesus, was thine incarnation
Thy mortal sorrow, and thy life’s oblation
Thy death of anguish and thy bitter passion
For my salvation

SUFJAN STEVENS – Ding-A-Ling-A-Ring-A-Ling

1, 2, ready, go

Ding-a-ling-a-ling
Ding-a-ling-a-ling-a-ding-a-ling-a-ring-a-ling

Baby Jesus is the king
Jesus is the king-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling

Lift your voice and sing
Lift your voice and sing-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling

As we wear the diamond ring
Wear the diamond ring-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling

Jesus is the king
Baby Jesus is the king

This is baby Jesus he’s the king-a-ling-a-ling
King-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling

King-a-ling-a-ling
King-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling

King-a-ling-a-ling
King-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling

King-a-ling-a-ling
King-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling

King-a-ling-a-ling
King-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling

King-a-ling-a-ling
King-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling

Alright let’s do a real song.