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Silent Night (The Christmas Truce) ft. Dryden Dilts

from I Want A HipHopopotamus For Christmas by iFollow

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One silent night on December 24th, 1914, in spite of the rejection of a formal armistice during the first world war, a group of soldiers on either side of the western front decided to do one of the bravest and most unexpected of things. They formed the Christmas truce.

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Chorus 1: Silent Night/Holy Night/All is calm/All is bright/Round yon virgin/Mother and child/Holy infant so tender and mild/Sleep in heavenly peace/Sleep in heavenly peace/

Verse 1: The bombs have stopped for now/And the guns have finally gone quiet/Nothing hiding in the clouds/But I could be wrong, I’m no pilot/Merry Christmas/You get to watch your friends as their dying/Make your wishes/As your family sits at home crying/Trying to celebrate Jesus birth/While I’m sitting here covered in blood/Where is the peace on earth?/Whatever happened to hope and love?/As I lie on my back wondering/If tonight is the night I freeze/I start to hear the sound of singing/Carried forward on the breeze/This has got to be a dream/But I slowly start to rise/I poke my head out of the trench/And I can’t believe my eyes/With Christmas trees behind them/And only candles in their hands/There’s a group of German soldiers/Crossing No-Man’s-Land singing/

Chorus 2: Stille Nacht/Heil'ge Nacht/Alles schläft/Einsam wacht/Nur das traute hoch heilige Paar/Holder Knab' im lockigen Haar/Schlafe in himmlischer Ruh/Schlafe in himmlischer Ruh/

Verse 2: Time has all but stopped/And my hands will not quit shaking/This might be my last walk/Wide open for the taking/I shout Merry Christmas, English/Can we find some good will?/Our only wish it/That tonight no one would kill/For to us a child was born/And to us a son was given/Because of him the veil was torn/That we may know the peace of heaven/Not sure what to expect/I advance a few more paces/They haven’t shot me yet/And now I’m starting to see faces/They’re coming out to meet us/And they’ve started singing along/Songs about the love of Jesus/Come to make right every wrong/In the middle of a war/But the Prince of Peace is here/As enemies trade gifts/And share some Christmas cheer

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from I Want A HipHopopotamus For Christmas, released June 7, 2018

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iFollow Winnipeg, Manitoba

iFollow is an independent artist based out of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. He brings to the table a unique and refreshing blend of hip hop, folk, spoken word, and acoustic stylings that weave their way from light-hearted and gentle to powerful and poignant. Being a fan of a whole gamut of musical genres himself, variety is the name of the game and iFollow hopes to deliver something for everyone. ... more

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