Hi and girls, I'm Perry Como, And I'm tell you the most wonderful story in the whole world, The of the First Christmas!
Now suppose you believe this is many, many years ago, A long time before you born! You're standing on a hillside, near a little in Palestine, Do you see the man in the distance, slowly, leading a donkey? His is Joseph! And riding on the is Mary. They've come a long, way, And heading for the town near the hillside, On which standing! Something very will happen in this town tonight! For this is the town of Bethlehem!
Oh little of Bethlehem, How we see thee lie, thy deep and dreamless sleep, The stars go by! Yet in thy dark shineth, The light! The and fears of all the years, Are met in tonight!
Now let's follow Joseph and into Bethlehem, It's dark and all the rooms at the Inn are taken, So they spend the at a stable. Now I told you something was gonna happen, and it did! A boy is born to Mary, And called him Jesus. had no baby's crib, so Mary puts little Jesus to sleep, In the soft hay of a manger!
Come, come, to the manger, Lord Jesus is born on this day!
Now Jesus lies in the manger asleep, tiptoe back to the hillside near Bethlehem, Where the Shepherds tend flock. All at the Shepherds are frightened, You'd be too, Because a light suddenly shines in the sky! Even the animals are and still, But then you the voice of an Angel of the Lord! And you're no frightened, For the Angel brings news, News of a Saviour this day, of Christ the Lord!
The First Noel! the did say, Was to poor Shepherds, In fields as lay, Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel! is the King of Israel!
Now and girls, Remember, we're still making believe with the Shepherds and the Angel, On the near Bethlehem. The ask the Angel, to find the Christ-child ? And the Angel tells to go to the manger. And as they the sky is filled with others Angels singing, Glory to God! On Peace, Goodwill, to Men!
The hurry to the manger, Fall on their knees the baby, And worship him! For He is the Lord!
Oh! all ye faithful, and triumphant! Oh ye, Oh! Come ye, to Bethlehem! and behold Him, Born the of Angels, Oh! let us adore Him, Oh! Come let us Him, Oh! let us adore Him, the Lord!
And now, up into the sky! See that bright star twinkling in the ? Far away, men are looking at that star just as we are! They're on camels, And using the star as a guide to lead them to the Christ-child. Who are three men who follow the star ? find out!
We Kings of Orient are, gifts, we traverse afar, Field and fountain, and mountain, yonder star!
That's right and girls, The three men on the camels are the three men, The new star them to Bethlehem, To a baby lying in a manger! the three wise men present gifts to the Christ-child, The first Christmas gifts ever to anyone, A of gold, of frankincense, and of Mir! The wise men fall on their knees to Him, A great settles on the night, For it's the Night!
Silent night, night, All is calm, all is bright, 'Round yon virgin and child, infant so tender and mild! Sleep in peace, Sleep in peace!
When we Christmas, Think of Bethlehem, the Mary, the three wise men, And the of the Christ-child! The Christmas!
Oh! Come let us Him, the Lord!
Adapted by A. Richards with Musical Arrangement by Mitchell