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Dream Tonight
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Simple but fiendishly intriguing chord sequence to this twee acoustic-style harmony song. Santa rides his sleigh over a wintry scene.
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Yet another songwriter-guitarist-singer. In that order. Though I earn my living mostly playing bass.
I play bass with various bands in many genres, and also perform at mainly acoustic-style venues as a solo songwriter-guitarist-singer (in that order)
Song Info
Genre
Pop • Christmas/Seasonal
Charts
#589 in subgenre Peak #9
Charts
Peak #185
Author
Tom Clarke/Heather Enid Wells
Rights
Tom Clarke/Heather Enid Wells
Uploaded
November 14, 2007
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MP3 2.3 MB • 128 kbps • 2:29
Story behind the song
Tom sent me a set of twelve Christmas poems in 2003 and suggested I set one or more to music. As they were fairly unstructured in terms of numbers and lengths of lines, I tweaked the lyric of this to fit it to music and this is how it turned out. Unfortunately you can hear I am as hoarse as a donkey following a very seasonal virus, only just finished it in time to put in the competition! The illustration is the original artwork that Tom sent me with the lyrics.
Lyrics
Dream for a while of old Christmas, When boughs were hung with snow, And high on the trees the frost glistened, And soft white candles glowed Far, far away Santa listened To girls and boys asleep Their thoughts were sent across the skies From places far and deep Silver bells then softly jingled On an ancient sleigh that night Reindeer hooves were speeding onwards Through the pale moonlight Santa’s sleigh was full of presents For children round the globe The North Wind blew him through the meadows And swirled his long red robe On he went as folks were sleeping Through the timeless Christmas Eve Stockings hung beneath the holly Yule logs stood by the tree Over fields the bells still echo Sending Santa on his way Candles burn in cottage windows As we dream of Christmas day As we dream of old Christmas, When boughs were hung with snow, And high in the trees the frost glistened, And soft white candles glowed
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