It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas ...

... everywhere you go.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas
Ev'rywhere you go
Take a look in the five-and-ten,
Glistening once again
With candy canes and silver lanes aglow

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas
Toys in ev'ry store
But the prettiest sight to see
is the holly that will be
On your own front door

A pair of hopalong boots and a pistol that shoots
Is the wish of Barney and Ben
Dolls that will talk and will go for a walk
Is the hope of Janice and Jen
And Mom and Dad can hardly wait for school to start again

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas
Ev'rywhere you go
There's a tree in the Grand Hotel,
One in the park as well
The sturdy kind that doesn't mind the snow

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas
Soon the bells will start
And the thing that will make them ring
Is the carol that you sing
Right within your heart

A Merry musical Christmas, to one and all, from Giacomo and Joust The Facts.  One of the things I have been doing with my copious free time - three children, busy medical practice, blogging - has been piano lessons.  My goal this year was to learn some simple arrangements of Christmas carols so that the family could sing them together.  I'm happy to report that I reached that goal, and can play, in a somewhat musical fashion:

• Silent Night
• Hark, The Herald Angels Sing
• Deck The Halls
• I'll Be Home For Christmas
• Blue Christmas
• O Tannenbaum
• The First Noel
• Auld Lang Syne
• Joy To The World
• Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
• Jingle Bell Rock

And no, I don't sing - yet.  With a little time after Christmas I'm hoping to record myself and link them here - so stay tuned for bad first year piano versions of the songs above!