Continuing with my theme of the songs I don’t like for the pandemic…
I guess I had intended to give that up, but the song “It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas” has been on my mind a lot today.
#1 son brought his family over today. They were picking up birthday gifts and the birthday cupcakes.
Not very Christmasy, perhaps, but really it was. I gave them a pandemic Christmas ornament and passed on some coffee a client had sent, too.
We had a lot of conversation and they admired my holiday decorations and we made plans for Christmas Eve.
So it is looking a lot like Christmas.
Meredith Wilson, who wrote The Music Man, wrote this song in 1951. It talks about how there are Christmas trees and stuff all over the place, but the best part of the holiday is at home. This will be true during the pandemic, since we are all staying home this year and enjoying our own firesides.
It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas
Everywhere you go
Take a look at the five and ten, it’s glistening once again
With candy canes and silver lanes that glowIt’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas
Toys in every store
But the prettiest sight to see is the holly that will be
On your own front doorA pair of Hopalong boots and a pistol that shoots
Is the wish of Barney and Ben
Dolls that’ll talk and will go for a walk
Is the hope of Janice and Jen
And Mom and Dad can hardly wait for school to start againIt’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas
Everywhere you go
There’s a tree in the Grand Hotel, one in the park as well
It’s the sturdy kind that doesn’t mind the snowIt’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas
Soon the bells will start
And the thing that’ll make ’em ring is the carol that you sing
Right within your heartIt’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas
Toys in every store
But the prettiest sight to see is the holly that will be
On your own front doorSure, it’s Christmas once more