Noel

Nativity Scene

Perhaps one of the most evocative of modern Christmas Carols is Chris de Burgh’s A Spaceman Came Travelling, from his strongly Religiously flavored album Spanish Train.

So for this time of year let this lovely piece fill your mind, while we wait another year for a touch of the divine.

A spaceman came travelling on his ship from afar,

Twas light years of time since his mission did start,

And over a village he halted his craft,

And it hung in the sky like a star, just like a star

He followed the light and came down to a share,

Where a mother and a child were lying there on a bed,

And a bright light of silver shone round his head,

And he had the face of an angle, and they were afraid.

Then the stranger spoke, he said do not fear,

I come from a planet a long way from here,

And I bring a message for mankind to hear,

And suddenly the sweetest music filled the air.

And it went la la la..

Peace and goodwill to all men, and love for the child.

And it went la la la..

Peace and goodwill to all men, and love for the child.

This lovely music went trembling through the ground,

And many were wakened on hearing that sound,

And travellers on the road, the village they found,

By the light of that ship in the sky, which shone all round.

And just before dawn at the paving of the sky,

The stranger returned and said now I must fly,

When two thousand years of your time has gone by,

This song will begin once again, to a babys cry.

And it went la la la..

Peace and goodwill to all men, and love for the child.

And it went la la la..

And it went la la la..

Peace and goodwill to all men, and love for the child.

And it went la la la..1

1. From Here.

Pierre Cloutier