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I'll Wait Another Year
02:42
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It's Christmas Eve
The snow weighs heavy on my leaves
The air is still
The church bells ringing on the hill
My branches bowed
I wasn't chosen this time round
The bigger trees
All went away instead of me
But never fear
I'll wait another year
And I'll grow, and I'll breathe
And I'll drink from my roots up to my leaves
And I'll stretch to the sun
And I'll shoot like a bullet from a gun
And I'll grow even more
I'll be better than before
But now I'll watch the snow sink to the floor
And come the day
I won't stand round and pine away
I'll get spruced up
I'll keep those sappy fears at bay
A year is long
And time to turn from weak to strong
Through wind and rain
Through needle pain, I'll soldier on
And then you'll see
I'll be a different tree
Chorus x2
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Evergreen
03:59
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Walk with me among the Christmas trees
Take some time to see the green abound
Needles coat the ground beneath our feet
Make a carpet neat and silent, sound
We walk and we wonder
At the wonders that we see
We can feel the calm and unknowing
Ever-growing majesty
Of a Christmas tree
Norway spruce, Norway Spruce
‘Mong the first put to use
To bring hope of the spring in the green of its shoots
From the wild, brought inside
With the first Christmas lights
In the form of a tallowy candle
And the source of its fame
Is its regal acclaim:
It was brought to this isle in Victoria’s reign
And we scarce would have seen
Such a thing as a tree
In our home, were it not for Prince Albert
CHORUS
Noble fir, noble fir
From the far-flung New World
It is strong and lives long
With its spines blue-green curled
And it came to the fore
In the second World War
With its wood in the fighter plane wings
From the Caspian Sea
Comes the Nordmann fir tree
Baba Yaga ran past it
In her house with bird’s feet
From the dense, dark exile
From the wolves and the wild
To the warmth and the carols we sing
CHORUS
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Jessica Law Cambridge, UK
"Packed with emotion, surprise and wit." - The Daily Album
“Someone… who’d probably get laughed off the X-Factor for
not being exactly the same as everyone else.” – Nightshift Magazine
"A collection of intriguing folk songs, packed with expressive lyrics, strange rhythms and creative instrumentation." - Ocelot Magazine
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