Sunday, December 09, 2007

An Advent Carol

The Ironic Catholic recently published a "conversion" of a secular Christmas song often heard in stores, dentists' offices, etc. into a proper Advent Carol. Not being able to resist the opportunity to do a song parody, I offer this Advent "conversion" experience:

"Happy Advent (We are Waiting)" by DMinor
to the tune of "Happy Christmas (War is Over)"
Apologies to John Lennon and Yoko Ono (but not many)


So this is Advent,
The Church Year's begun.
It's time to prepare for
The coming of God's Son.
And so during Advent
We pray and await.
The birth of the Christ Child
We anticipate.

We're getting set for Christmas,
Starting out this new year
We'll make it a good one
God is drawing near

And so for this Advent
Let's find time to pray,
In the midst of our shopping
And our busy day.
And so have an Advent
that reverently makes
us ready to greet Him
who died for our sakes.

We're getting set for Christmas,
Starting out this new year
We'll make it a good one
God is drawing near

So this is Advent,
The Church Year's begun.
It's time to prepare for
The coming of God's Son.
And so during Advent
We pray and await.
The birth of the Christ Child
We anticipate.

We're getting set for Christmas,
Starting out this new year
We'll make it a good one
God is drawing near

We are waiting
For the Christ Child
We await his birth

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4 Comments:

Blogger The Ironic Catholic said...

Encore!

That's good!

6:35 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Nice...now get on your guitar and record it for our Christmas present!

6:51 AM  
Blogger Poppy B. said...

Great job! Better than the original. And I had SUCH a crush on John Lennon you wouldn't believe, so I'm being totally objective here.

8:08 AM  
Blogger DMinor said...

Thanks for the kind words. Mollydog, you'll have to wait for the audio version until I set my computer up for recording again
;-). Might be fun . . .

8:33 PM  

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