Garrison Keillor,
In The Bleak Midwinter ( Garrison Keillor )
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Rewritten words for the song “In the Bleak Midwinter” from this week’s classic show: In the bleak midwinter when the sky was low Children walking homeward wishing for the snow Christmas lights in windows all along the way In the bleak midwinter at the close of day. In the bleak midwinter, at the Christmas feast A family leaves Chicago and travels to the east For a public mansion in Washington, D.C. In a time of trouble and festivity. All across the nation, sea to shining sea, People watch the passage of that family And our loving wishes go out to them there All the nation breathes a silent hopeful prayer In the cold gray dimness of a winter dawn People rise and shine and put the coffee on There are lists to make and stockings to be filled And a house of gingerbread someone must build. In a gray December waiting for the sun People rise at dawn and do what must be done In the cold and darkness look around and hear Singing in the streets and angels coming near. Angels descending, voices bright and clear.
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