This Christmas Song will Bring You To Tears

If we took all the piano heavy, country inspired Christmas songs sung by men in sweater vests we would  get the saddest song in the known universe.  There is something about the holidays that forces young men to try and create songs that produce so much sap that they could make pine trees jealous.

I want to make a tribute to all these songs and encourage my fellow musician friends to compose the music to this new masterpiece.  It is guaranteed to get middle aged soccer moms to blubber.



Christmas Tears

Mama slowly gets up from her hospital bed
She takes me by the hand as I help her get her meds
She says, "boy, on this Christmas, no one should be alone"
As she scoops me up she puts me back in the orphanage home

Daddy lost his job at the old steel mill
With his diabetes,  he suffers quiet and still
Staring out at the snow; a widow for seven years
He wishes upon a Christmas Tree and holds his daughter near

Chorus:
Crying Christmas tears
Making snow angels in my heart
Gotta walk this icy windy road all alone
Crying Christmas tears
Wishing we could never part
Kissing myself goodbye under the mistletoe

She asks the street vendor, "I need those Christmas slippers"
"It's for my dog who survived 9/11, his name is Skipper"
With a twinkle in his eye, he removes a tear from his face
"These shoes were just given, to a footless girl named Grace"

He comes home from Iraq, tattered and quite bruised
The sound of explosions still  haunting in the news
His family holds him close, he would never them fall
He salutes to the US flag, "Santa Claus bless them all!"

(Repeat Chorus)

He gets down on one knee and opens up the ring
her face is blushing red, she can hear the angels the sing
"Darla be my bride," he whispers through the cry
"Marry me this one time, because tomorrow I will die"

A junkie down the streets, sings praises to the Lord
Snow rains down and a home he can't afford
The preacher puts down his whiskey, the cold cuts like a knife.
Says to the junkie, "You restored my faith, I am returning to my wife"

(Repeat Chorus)