Singer Songwriter Scott Wilcox

Christmas Time

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One of my favorite things to do at Christmas is get all my friends together and enjoy some good music and conversation.  This song is about just such and occasion. In fact I'll be havin' another Christmas party any day now stay tuned to my website to get invited!

Christmas Time

by Scott Wilcox (c) October 2011

I'm lookin out the window at the soft snow comin down

12 full day to Christmas, can't wait till your'e around

I got lights and decorations hangin on the tree

Been good all year but Santa, there's a few things that I need

Gonna need some holly, Gonna need some good times

Gonna need some mistletoe, some friends I know,

And a pocket full of rhymes.

I need an old six string and a little jing-a-ling

Surrounded by friends I love and the God above

And a little peace of mind, Oh then its Christmas time!

You find it hard to smile?

I know you had a tough year.

But try not to cry, in a little while

You will feel the Christmas cheer.

So grab the one you love, Oooo and hold her tight

Sing a Christmas song and tell her baby, It'll be alright

Bridge

We'll  leave those troubles back in last year.

I'm gonna need some things to spread the Christmas cheer

(Chorus 2x)

So hold her tight, kiss her once or twice.

She's the one you love, praise God above

That she's with you here tonight

So call your friends up.

They come in the drivin' snow

then you sing a song, all evening long

But there's one thing that I know.

(Chorus 2x)

A Merry Little Christmas

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"Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" is a song introduced by Judy Garland in the 1944 MGM musical Meet Me in St. Louis. Frank Sinatra later recorded a version with modified lyrics, which has become more common than the original. The song was written by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane.

A Merry Little Christmas 

Original music by Ralph Blane and Hugh Martin

Have yourself a merry little Christmas,
Let your heart be light
From now on, our troubles will be out of sight

Have yourself a merry little Christmas,
Make the Yule-tide gay,
From now on, our troubles will be miles away.

Here we are as in olden days,
Happy golden days of yore.
Faithful friends who are dear to us
Gather near to us once more.

Through the years we all will be together, if the Fates allow 
Hang a shining star upon the highest bough.
And have yourself a merry little Christmas now. 

Comin Home

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Comin Home is a song fo anyone who has to be away from home at Christmas time.  In this particular story the husband calls his wife and tells her he'll be home by Christmas day.  He says, "Chill the wine, I'll be home in just a short time, can't wait to see that look on your face." "Tell my friends I won't see them till the weekend, cause I'm spending every Christmas moment with you." 

Home for the Holidays

Written by Scott Wilcox © December 2005

Trim the Tree, with the holly and the ivy

I’ll be home for sure by Christmas Day.

Chill the wine. I’ll be home in just a short time.

I can’t wait to see that look on your face.

I’m coming home, for the holidays,

So I can see your lovely face,

And feel your warm embrace,

As though it was the first time.

Tell my friends, I won’t see them till the weekend

Cause I’m spending every Christmas moment with you.

Wear that dress, yes; the one that always makes me confess.

‘cause I’ve got only one thing left on my mind…

Coming home for the holidays.

Taking long walks in the snow

Like we’ve got no where else to go

As though it were the first time.

And when the lights are low

And you’re sitting ‘neath the mistletoe.

That’s when I will know I’m home…

For the holidays.

There Must Be Somethin More

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What is the true meaning of Christmas for you?  Is it the shopping, the presents, the family get-togethers, the church and school programs, the grumpy relatives or the lights on the Christmas tree?  For me, I think all those things are just distractions from the real meaning of Christmas, which is the birth of Jesus Christ.  I like to think this song reminds us of that.

There Must Be Somethin' More

By Scott Wilcox (c) October 2011

It's almost Christmas Eve

I hear a band outside and people caroling

Stringin lights outside and playin in the snow

Soon everyone will know that its Christmas

The shoppers rush on by

In the distance you can hear baby cry

On the lake the kids are playin on the ice

People trying to be nice, you know its Christmas

Christmas must be more than a little song singin

It must be something more than Church bells ringing

It must be somethin more or I've been thinkin wrong

Its almost Christmas Eve

People stand in lines for a man all dressed in red

In the distance,  I thought that someone said

That man all dressed in red, was Christmas

Then just before I sleep

I find a good book and I begin to read

About a baby in a manger stall

And then once and for all, I know its Christmas

Chorus

Thank God for Jesus or there wouldn't be Christmas songs

Swingle Bells

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Swingle Bells

Arrangement by Scott Wilcox 

Dashing through the snow

In a one-horse open sleigh

O'er the fields we go

Laughing all the way

Bells on bobtail ring

Making spirits bright

What fun it is to laugh and sing

A sleighing song tonight!

(chorus)

Jingle bells, jingle bells,

Jingle all the way.

Oh! what fun it is to ride

In a one-horse open sleigh.

Jingle bells, swingle bells,

Jingle all the way;

Oh! what fun it is to ride

In a one-horse open sleigh.

A day or two ago

I thought I'd take a ride

And soon, Miss Fanny Bright

Was seated by my side,

The horse was lean and lank

Misfortune seemed his lot

He got into a drifted bank

And then we got upsot.

Away in a Manger

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Away In a Manger

Arrangement by Scott Wilcox

Away in a manger, No crib for His bed
The little Lord Jesus Laid down His sweet head
The stars in the bright sky looked down where He lay
The little Lord Jesus asleep on the hay

Chorus

Be near me, Lord Jesus, I ask Thee to stay
Close by me forever And love me I pray
Bless all the dear children In Thy tender care
And take us to heaven To live with Thee there

The cattle are lowing the poor Baby wakes
But little Lord Jesus no crying He makes
I love Thee, Lord Jesus Look down from the sky
And stay by my cradle, 'Til morning is nigh.