《Christmas》歌词

[00:00:00] Christmas - Sir John Betjeman

[00:00:46] The bells of waiting Advent ring

[00:00:50] The Tortoise stove is lit again

[00:00:54] And lamp oil light across the night

[00:00:58] Has caught the streaks of winter rain

[00:01:01] In many a stained glass window sheen

[00:01:05] From Crimson Lake to Hookers Green

[00:01:10] The holly in the windy hedge

[00:01:13] And round the Manor House the yew

[00:01:16] Will soon be stripped to deck the ledge

[00:01:20] The altar font and arch and pew

[00:01:24] So that the villagers can say

[00:01:27] 'The church looks nice' on Christmas Day

[00:01:47] Provincial Public Houses blaze

[00:01:51] Corporation tramcars clang

[00:01:54] On lighted tenements I gaze

[00:01:58] Where paper decorations hang

[00:02:01] And bunting in the red Town Hall

[00:02:05] Says 'Merry Christmas to you all'

[00:02:08] And London shops on Christmas Eve

[00:02:12] Are strung with silver bells and flowers

[00:02:16] As hurrying clerks the City leave

[00:02:20] To pigeon haunted classic towers

[00:02:24] And marbled clouds go scudding by

[00:02:29] The many steepled London sky

[00:02:33] And girls in slacks remember Dad

[00:02:37] And oafish louts remember Mum

[00:02:41] And sleepless children's hearts are glad

[00:02:46] And Christmas morning bells say come

[00:02:50] Even to shining ones who dwell

[00:02:53] Safe in the Dorchester Hotel

[00:03:24] And is it true

[00:03:25] And is it true

[00:03:27] This most tremendous tale of all

[00:03:31] Seen in a stained glass window's hue

[00:03:35] A Baby in an ox's stall

[00:03:39] The Maker of the stars and sea

[00:03:42] Become a Child on earth for me

[00:03:52] And is it true

[00:03:54] For if it is

[00:03:56] No loving fingers tying strings

[00:04:00] Around those tissued fripperies

[00:04:02] The sweet and silly Christmas things

[00:04:06] Bath salts and inexpensive scent

[00:04:10] And hideous tie so kindly meant

[00:04:14] No love that in a family dwells

[00:04:18] No carolling in frosty air

[00:04:22] Nor all the steeple shaking bells

[00:04:25] Can with this single Truth compare

[00:04:30] That God was man in Palestine

[00:04:33] And lives today in Bread and Wine