Peter Lawson

Bring Back Christmas Cheer

A merry original song for the Christmas season for choir and orchestra or orchestra alone or choir and piano, with words by Anthony Pritchard set to music by Peter Lawson.
This song is available in four different choral versions:
Mixed Voice Choir (SATB) - GM110
Upper Voice Choir (SSA) - GM111
Male Voice Choir (TTBB) - GM112
or if you have a mixed voice choir but a shortage of men . . . .
Mixed Voice Choir (SA+Men) - Roberton 62008
The orchestral score and parts (for details see under GMCH013) are the same for all versions.

The computer-generated audio sample below is the version for choir of SA+Men and piano as is the score shown here.
You can hear the other choral versions with piano accompaniment and the orchestral version (with SATB choir) and see their associated scores by looking on the 'details' page under the respective catalogue numbers.
Duration c.5 minutes
To give you a flavour of the humour the first (of four) verses and choruses is:-

We think we had better
Write Santa a letter
And tell him that Christmas
Is cancelled this year,
The shops barely close
And as it hardly ever snows,
Rudolph's cold is better
So there's no more red nose.
And Prancer and Dancer
Have taken up ballet,
They live by the coast
In a very nice chalet;
They're really quite neat
And they have very light feet
And watching them plie
Is really a treat!

Oh bring back, Oh bring back,
Oh bring back the spirit of Christmases past!
We hadn't much money, But the jokes are still funny,
Oh how we so wanted those good times to last!