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Christmas Is Coming

by Seamie O'Dowd

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"Christmas Is Coming" is a song written with, like most Christmas songs, an all around message of universal good will in mind.
And to put this into practice, I've decided to donate all profit from this track to FOCUS IRELAND,the Irish based housing advocacy group.

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CHORUS
Christmas is coming
The engines are running
From the next village over
And far away.
The storms are receding
The wise men are heeding
The call of the stars
To a brand new day.

In the dark days of winter,
The logs and the splinters
Spark as they spit like a fight in a bar.
But without all the anger,
Without the two langers
And within the shelter beneath the stars.

The cold windy cities,
The plain and the pretty
Lit up by the tall trees and Christmas lights
While the hope from below sets the city a-glow.
With the bells of a not really silent night.

CHORUS

Shop windows lucius,
The thoughts of Confucius,
And three books all resting uneasily.
On its way from the altar,
Sometimes the word falters,
And the message gets altered and hard to see.

Sisters and brothers,
Becoming the other,
In honour of all these great desert tales.
And so often it seems
That our towering dreams
Barely make it to sunlight before they fail.

CHORUS

To each child a house
And each lost soul a home
In the name of goodwill and compassion.
To each road to redemption
A last destination
Where love and goodwill are in fashion.

Let black face and white
Make their way through the night
To the place where the dream is reality
And the brass and the bells
And the stories they tell
Are the light for all folk as there meant to be.

CHORUS x2

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released December 6, 2021
Written by Seamie O'Dowd 2021.
Performed, recorded and produced by Seamie O'Dowd.

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Seamie O'Dowd Ireland

Seamie O Dowd is a guitarist, singer, and songwriter who also plays fiddle, harmonica, mandolin, and a number of other instruments.
He has travelled worldwide playing music and has shared stages and played with many great musicians and bands
His experience also includes solo performance. recording production, teaching and more recently, film soundtrack work.
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