Ten years ago, I wrote a song that I call my “holiday greeting to the world”. I played all of the instruments and my wife and I performed it in my modest home recording studio. Then I made a video.
Since then we have seen humans plunge into more violence, more brutal inhumanity, death, destruction and suffering.
I wouldn’t change a word of what I wrote back then. In fact, its message is more vital and timely than ever. We need to embrace one another in what unifies us as a species, not destroy one another over differences which in the grander scheme of things are irrelevant, if not petty.
As we approach 2025, may I wish the best year ever for you and those you love!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGXsZ3BsWjs
1st Verse:
It’s a very special time of year / For family and friends holiday cheer / For those no longer with us / We shed a tear / A time to share / A time of feast / A time to care / And pray for peace / A time to give to those who have the least
Chorus:
Merry Christmas? / Happy Hanukkah / Peace be with us / Happy New Year
2nd Verse:
This is the time to start anew / Atheist Christian Muslim Jew / To reach within and find the love inside of you / Discard the old seek out the new / Reject the false embrace the true / To look ahead decide to bring out the best in you
Choruses:
Merry Christmas / Happy Hanukkah / Peace be with us / Happy New Year
Akemashite omedetou / Peace be with you / Happy New Year
Merry Christmas / Happy Hanukkah / Peace be with you / Happy New Year
© Copyright 2014 – Words and music by John Rachel, produced for Dancing Needles Music – ASCAP (All rights reserved.)
