“November gives thanks for the harvest… December gives thanks for the Sun…January comes begging and takes something from everyone…”
Play the song here:
Gabriel’s Song of Delight
November 1985 | Song #81
Shadows dance beneath the streetlight
A stop sign quivers in the wind
The light turns green on Main Street
Giving no indication of the end…
A leaf scrapes, broken on the asphalt
A sidewalk crumbles in the cold
Young girls giggle down the avenue
Repeating what someone else was told…
Refrain:
Oh most silent night
Oh most holy night
Ancient twilight of trumpets and angels
Gabriel’s song of delight
A diesel downshifts on the evening breeze
Someone’s doing dishes downstairs
Life burns brightly through the windows
And scatters out into the falling air
Refrain:
November gives thanks for the harvest
December gives thanks for the Sun
January comes begging…
And takes something from everyone
Refrain:
© 1985-2009 by Mark Shepard. ASCAP All rights reserved.
Commentary: I was just 25 and married…My son Andrew was not even a year old. I had started my title insurance agency and was basically running it out of my bedroom…it was my first experience of business slowing down at the holidays…That January I wondered if I was going to make enough to support us…Just like this year it was the best of times and the worst of times…it was a lot of things…this is one of those songs that definitely chose me to write it.
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