Blog Caroling!

Luckily I'm keeping up on my Google Reader (for the most part anyway) and noticed that Blog Caroling is fast approaching!  I loved sharing my favorite Christmas carol last year and was very excited when I came across the first Blog caroling post which just happened to be Bill West's who was singing "I Saw Three Ships".  Oddly enough I'd heard the song before, but didn't know the words except for "On Christmas Day in the morning".  Thanks for sharing, Bill, and thank you footnoteMaven for the caroling!

After some consideration I finally decided on a song for this year.  When I was a little girl, my mom used to play Brenda Lee's Christmas album, "Jingle Bell Rock".  I loved those songs, but there was one that always gave me chills and brought a tear to my eye (almost every time...even today).  I've played this album for my kids as well, and my oldest son Benjamin loves this song too.  It's called, "The Angel and the Little Blue Bell."

Now let me see...no hot toddy for me tonight, but my cup of tea is still warm.

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The Angel and the Little Blue Bell

At Christmas time in the steeple high

The bells would proudly ring

To tell the world of the joy and cheer

That Christmas Day would bring

But one little bell in the steeple high

Could only pain alone and cry

No matter how he'd try and try 

Poor little thing

He couldn't ring

At all...

All the other bells in the steeple high

Saw all his lonely tears

And watched him try his best to ring

Each Christmas through the years

But the little blue bell in the steeple tall

Just cried when Christmas came to call

For like I said in spite of all

Poor little thing

He couldn't ring

At all...

One Christmas Eve in the steeple high

An angel did appear

She smiled and said to the little blue bell

I've come to dry your tears

And on that night so the story's told

She changed the little blue bell to the purest gold

With the richest tone to hold and hold

Proud little thing

Just hear him ring

At all