Thank God it's Christmas - lyrics

Here's a beautiful Christmas song by one of my favourite bands: Queen. I'm sure you're familiar with some of their greatest hits. (They play them every day on RFM.)

Oh my love we've had our share of tears
Oh my friend we've had our hopes and fears
Oh my friends it's been a long hard year
But now it's Christmas
Yes it's Christmas
Thank God it's Christmas

The moon and stars seem awful cold and bright
Let's hope the snow will make this Christmas right
My friend the world will share this special night
Because it's Christmas
Yes it's Christmas
Thank God it's Christmas
For one night

Thank God it's Christmas yeah
Thank God it's Christmas
Thank God it's Christmas
Can it be Christmas?
Let it be Christmas
Ev'ry day

Oh my love we've lived in troubled days
Oh my friend we have the strangest ways
All my friends on this one day of days
Thank God it's Christmas
Yes it's Christmas
Thank God it's Christmas
For one day

Thank God it's Christmas
Yes it's Christmas
Thank God it's Christmas
Oooh yeah
Thank God it's Christmas
Yes yes yes yes it's Christmas
Thank God it's Christmas
For one day

A very merry Christmas to you all

Words and music by Brian May and Roger Taylor

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas

Here are the lyrics of the first carol on the playlist:

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas
Ev'rywhere you go;
Take a look in the five-and-ten, glistening once again
With candy canes and silver lanes aglow.
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas,
Toys in ev'ry store,
But the prettiest sight to see is the holly that will be
On your own front door.
A pair of hopalong boots and a pistol that shoots
Is the wish of Barney and Ben;
Dolls that will talk and will go for a walk
Is the hope of Janice and Jen;
And Mom and Dad can hardly wait for school to start again.
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas 
Ev'rywhere you go;
There's a tree in the Grand Hotel, one in the park as well,
The sturdy kind that doesn't mind the snow.
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas;
Soon the bells will start,
And the thing that will make them ring is the carol that you sing
Right within your heart.

Every kind of people

I truly hope that in time this blog might be visited on a regular basis by my students and former students and that somehow, despite their different tastes and personality traits, they all find something here that they can relate to. It is said that "Variety is the spice of life" and I agree, but I also believe that “whether yellow, black or white, each and every man is the same inside”, as the late singer Robert Palmer sang in his 1978 song “Every kinda people”(that’s slang for every kind of people). Yes, I know, it’s a thirty-year-old song, but the lyrics are so meaningful and still so up-to-date! If you don't want to watch the videoclip, at least scroll down to the bottom of the page, look for the song in the playlist and listen to it as you read its lyrics:

Said the fight to make ends meet
Keeps a man upon his feet
Holding down his job
Trying to show he can’t be bought

Ooh it takes every kinda people
To make what life's about, yeah
Every kinda people
To make the world go round

Someone's looking for a lead
In his duty to a king or to a creed
Protecting what he feels is right
Fights against wrong with his life

There's no profit in deceit
Honest men know that
Revenge does not taste sweet
Whether yellow, black or white
Each and every man's the same inside

It takes every kinda people
To make what life's about, yeah
It takes every kinda people
To make the world go round
Doo doo doo......

You know that love's the only goal
That could bring a peace to any soul
Hey and every man's the same
He wants the sunshine in his name

It takes every kinda people
To make what life's about, yeah
It takes every kinda people
To make the world go round
Mmmm, every kinda people
To make what life's about

Let me know your opinion about this song by posting a comment. Thanks in advance!