Christmas in NYC!  There’s nothing quite like it.  Truly beautiful, but sometimes a bit too much about Santa and not enough about Jesus.  Each year I go back to the same moment years ago when I first wrote this song to try to rediscover the essence of Christmas.

I’ll share it with you now:

Christmas In My Soul

Music and lyrics by Peter Link

It looks as though

There won’t be snow on Christmas

And the holly and the mistletoe

Were sold out long ago

The midtown rush was just a little too much

And this year Santa and his reindeer

Never left the pole

Suddenly it just don’t seem like Christmas

Suddenly it don’t seem so natural

Looking for Christmas

Looking for Christmas

Looking for Christmas

Trying to find a little Christmas in my soul

Takin’ my time

Trying to find a little Christmas in my soul

But somehow a church bell caught my ear

Somehow a little child caught my eye

Somehow an old man playing on his trumpet

Stopped that drummer in me

With a ty- rie -die-dee-i

Rie -die-dee-i

Rie -die-dee-i-i-i-i

And suddenly it all seemed very simple

And suddenly it all seemed so natural

Looking for Christmas

Looking for Christmas

Looking for Christmas

Trying to find a little Christmas in my soul

Somehow the whole affair almost slipped on by

I nearly lost the childhood dream

I plumb forgot the reason why

And all my Christmas longings

Were simply left behind

As I went running through the wrappings

And the ribbons and the rhyme

And rollin’ through December

Like a man against time

Looking for Christmas

Looking for Christmas

Looking for Christmas

Trying to find a little Christmas in my soul

Takin’ my time

Trying to find a little Christmas in my soul

Takin’ my time

Trying to find a little Christmas in my soul

As performed by The Jenny Burton Experience

Merry Christmas, everyone.

I hope you find your true Christmas spirit.