GeneaBloggers ~ Blog Caroling!



Footnote Maven challenges us GeneaBloggers:


I challenge each of you to blog your favorite Christmas Carol - Blog Caroling. We'll all sing along! You can view the first year's A Choir Of GeneAngels, and Do You Hear What I Hear.


I believe this is the third year of fM's caroling and this is be my second year participating. One thing I can not do is sing. I am so excited about participating however in this caroling event! I just pray all of the other Genea-Bloggers drown me out a bit. If I get to loud and out of tune, please let me know!


I have chosen one of my favorite songs, White Christmas, to add to our caroling this year. I think I loved this song so much as I was growing up because that is exactly what I did, dream of a white Christmas, I had never seen one where I am from in sunny California. White Christmas originally was sung by Bing Crosby, and that is my favorite edition. I grew up listening to him sing this every year. The music and lyrics were written by Irving Berlin in 1942.  It was originally featured in the movie Holiday Inn which I just so happened to watch last night. So here we go!


                                                                     White Christmas
                                                    

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

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

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


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Thanks for stopping by! 

Wishing you success in all of your genealogical treasure hunts!




Copyright © 2010 Cheryl Palmer

Comments

  1. GenSpeakDecember 13, 2010 at 12:19 PM

    Our family just started watching this movie last night, too! It's also one of my favorites. I spent my high school years in FL, but my early and some middle school years were spent in MI and OH(in that order!). I knew what "snow days" were all about, so it made it worse! Now I live in South GA, which is a lot like FL. Long story to say I still feel like it should be snowing after
    Thanksgiving! There's nothing like a white Christmas!

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  2. Linda Hughes HiserDecember 13, 2010 at 5:28 PM

    I remember a Bing Crosby Holiday album as a Christmas favorite while I was growing up.

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  3. my Heritage HappensDecember 17, 2010 at 9:33 AM

    Hi CJ, You are lucky to have enjoyed a white Christmas and then be able to choose where you leave and whether you will have them again!

    Hi Lindalee, Bing Crosby had a great voice, his Christmas songs had me hooked.

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