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Irving Berlin & Christmas & Easter
« on: March 31, 2018, 01:44:31 PM »
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  • Irving Berlin,the famous Jєωιѕн American songwriter did much to help secularize Christmas by changing the Birth of Christ into a sentimental song about snow:

    White Christmas
    Introduction
    The sun is shining, the grass is green
    The orange and palm trees sway
    There's never been such a day
    In Beverly Hills, L.A
    But it's December the twenty-fourth
    And I am longing to be up North

    [Verse 1]

    I'm dreaming of a white Christmas
    Just like the ones I used to know
    Where the treetops glisten and children listen
    To hear sleigh bells in the snow

    [Verse 2]
    I'm dreaming of a white Christmas
    With every Christmas card I write
    May your days be merry and bright
    And may all your Christmases be white

    [Verse 3]
    I'm dreaming of a white Christmas
    Just like the ones I used to know
    Where the treetops glisten and children listen
    To hear sleigh bells in the snow
    *******************************************************************

    As for Easter, he replaced the Resurrection of Christ with an Easter Parade:

    Easter Parade
    In your easter bonnet, with all the frills upon it,
    You'll be the grandest lady in the easter parade.
    I'll be all in clover and when they look you over,
    I'll be the proudest fellow in the easter parade.

    On the avenue, fifth avenue, the photographers will snap us,
    And you'll find that you're in the rotogravure.
    Oh, I could write a sonnet about your easter bonnet,
    And of the girl I'm taking to the easter parade.