A Very Merry Time of the Year—Lyrics

A Very Merry Time of the Year

Words & Music by Christopher Kent

Here’s a cup of hot cider with a cinnamon stick
Let’s have a cookie while we wait for St. Nick
We’ll put up strings of lights and boughs of holly everywhere
While we search for signs of snowflakes in the cold Christmas air
When Friday comes we’ll go and find a tree that’s just right
We’ll spend the weekend decking it with ornaments and light
And then we’ll drive into town and shop until we fall,
And it’s cash away, cash away, cash away all!

CHORUS:
Like a high-flying sleigh on a midnight clear
All our Christmas traditions, they bring us good cheer
The season’s what you make it, so when Christmas is here
We do our best to make it a very merry time of the year!

We’ll wrap some shiny presents, put them under the tree
While we watch “It’s a Wonderful Life” on TV
We’ll listen to The Nutcracker and Handel’s Messiah
And carols from the Mormon Tabernacle Choir
We’ll recite our favorite Christmas poems, enjoying every stanza
We’ll cruise the neighborhood, a Christmas light extravaganza
And then on Christmas Eve, while the spirit prevails
We’ll read Dylan Thomas’s “A Child’s Christmas in Wales”

Like a high-flying sleigh on a midnight clear
All our Christmas traditions, they bring us good cheer
The season’s what you make it, so when Christmas is here
We do our best to make it a very merry time of the year!

Some years we feel so tired, and times have been so tough
We shake our heads and say, “This year surviving is enough.
Let’s not do anything, it seems like such a burden”
But there’s one thing we’ve learned, and we know it’s true for certain: