Christmas Like A Lullabye

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    During the Christmas season of 2003, I was stationed in Iraq. It was a very lonely time not only for me, but to everyone who was there. I missed seeing the snow clinging to the trees and laying on the hills. John Denver wrote a song "Christmas Like A Lullabye", that I wrote a variation to. It is my Christmas wish every year. Please enjoy!

    Christmas Like A Lullabye

     Christmas like a lullabye
    Steals across the land
    A breeze upon the water
    Rain fall upon the sand
    We celebrate a baby born
    From spirit into man
    And Christmas like a lullabye
    Steals across the land

    Its morning in the desert
    In fact its Christmas day
    And Pennsylvania never seemed
    So very far away
    Back where night has fallen
    And its still Christmas eve
    And snow is on the rolling hills
    That I always hate to leave

    But here I am in Iraq
    With a different family
    Helping all these people
    In their struggle to be free
    I know that its been said before
    And now I know its true
    That home is where the heart is
    And Christmas lives too

    And on this morning
    Peace on earth
    Is still our fervent prayer
    And I can hear it being
    Whispered softly every where
    As guns are called to silence
    And anger called to still
    And brotherhood and sisterhood
    Surrounded by good will

    Christmas like a lullabye
    Steals across the land
    A breeze upon the water
    Rain fall upon the sand
    We celebrate a baby born
    From spirit into man
    And Christmas like a lullabye
    Steals across the land

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    EyesOfRain commented on Christmas Like A Lullabye

    09-02-2012

    This was amazing! What a beautiful peace filled song about a time of war. Your perspective can only be captured by someone who was there, which makes it so unique and real. I would love to see this become a Christmas song.
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    tierra7 commented on Christmas Like A Lullabye

    01-16-2011

    hun, this was simply WTonderful!!!, thank you for your service our Country, I salute you .....as the widow of a Veteran, I welcome you home..Thank you for sharin' your heart witjh us on this given holiday season , Much Love, Tierra@}-'-,
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    jeanpnkldyg commented on Christmas Like A Lullabye

    12-27-2010

    In the stillness is where we find truth. Thank you for your service. I look forward to reading more of your work! Jean
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    christianprep commented on Christmas Like A Lullabye

    12-12-2010

    Aw... I just love that poem represents christmas well... I had a couple of uncles in Iraq a christmas time... New one better then the other missed them and worried about them.....and prayed for them and there children...... It was sad when they were not here for christmas...
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    ApaqRasgirl commented on Christmas Like A Lullabye

    12-01-2010

    that was a very sweet and heart warming poem for christmas.....I am sure it is very hard to be so far from family at this time of year.......well done my friend.......a 10 all the way......love asha
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    Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.

    Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) U.S. poet.

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