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(this could be the) Last Christmas

by Pablo O'Connell

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1.
last Christmas I gave you my heart and the very next day, you gave it away. this year, to save me from tears, i'll give it to someone special memory in timeless wandering air memory, a burden that we share brother you are hardly lost for words, you are not a stranger of this earth ever we come back to silent ends winter cold has come and gone again there is little more left to be said, won't you come and join me on this sled? all the other million careless things all the other children caroling never was a calling, never felt like you were a lover to be held twenty-seven years have met their end twenty-seven winters gone again lover find it easy to pretend all the world will bless you where you stand
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Christmas time is here Happiness and cheer Fun for all that children call Their favorite time of year Snowflakes in the air Carols everywhere Olden times and ancient rhymes Of love and dreams to share Sleigh bells in the air Beauty everywhere Yuletide by the fireside And joyful memories there Christmas time is here Families drawing near Oh, that we could always see Such spirit through the year
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oh Jesus was a working man and a hero you shall hear, he was born in the town of Bethlehem at the turning of the year, at the turning of the year. oh he became a journeyman and he traveled far and wide, and he saw how wealth and poverty live always side by side, live always side by side. so he said "come all you working folks, you farmers and weavers too, if you would only stand as one this world belongs to you, this world belongs to you." when the workers heard was Jesus said they discussed what they should do so they formed a committee of the Twelve to see their struggle through, to see their struggle through. when the rich men heard what the carpenter had done, to the Roman troops they ran saying "put this rebel Jesus down, he's a threat to God and man he's a threat to God and man." so Jesus hid among the poor, for the poor were his own kind and they wouldn't let the cops get near enough to take him down the line to take him down the line. the commander of the occupying troops just laughed and then he said "there's a cross to spare on Cavalry hill by the weekend he'll be dead by the weekend he'll be dead." so Jesus sat in his prison cell and they beat him and offered him bribes to desert the cause of his fellow man and to work for the rich man's tribe to work for the rich mans tribe. and the sweat stood out upon his brow and the blood was in his eye and they nailed his body to the Roman cross and they laughed as they watched him die they laughed as they watched him die. Two-thousand years have passed and gone, and many a hero too, but the dreams of this poor carpenter still remain in the hands of you still remain in the hands of you.

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holiday covers to get in the spirit

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all tracks performed and produced by Pablo O'Connell,
featuring Ryan Jung, Piano


Last Christmas
By George Michael
Copyright Chappell and Co o/b/o Wham
Music Ltd

Christmas Time is Here
by Vince Guaraldi and Lee Mendelson
Copyright Lee Mendelson Film Prod Inc.

Ballad of the Carpenter
by Ewan Maccoll
Copyright Figs. D Music Inc. o/b/o
Stormking Music

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released December 14, 2021

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Pablo O'Connell New York, New York

oboist, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, good time haver

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