Greg Lake - I Believe In Father Christmas (Official 4K Video)
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- Опубліковано 11 лис 2020
- Official 4K video, restored version of Greg Lake's classic Christmas hit single, contains alternate footage.
Stream Greg Lake here: greglake.lnk.to/IBIFXmas
Lyrics:
They said there'll be snow at Christmas
They said there'll be peace on earth
But instead, it just kept on raining
A veil of tears for the virgin birth
I remember one Christmas morning
A winter's light and a distant choir
And the peal of a bell and that Christmas tree smell
And their eyes full of tinsel and fire
They sold me a dream of Christmas
They sold me a silent night
And they told me a fairy story
'Till I believed in the Israelite
And I believed in Father Christmas
And I looked to the sky with excited eyes
'Till I woke with a yawn in the first light of dawn
And I saw him and through his disguise
I wish you a hopeful Christmas
I wish you a brave new year
All anguish, pain and sadness
Leave your heart and let your road be clear
They said there'll be snow at Christmas
They said there'll be peace on earth
Hallelujah, Noel be it heaven or hell
The Christmas we get we deserve
#GregLake #IBelieveInFatherChristmas #ChristmasSongs
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This is simply a track of pure beauty. In 1975, when I was eleven years old I announced to my Mum and Dad, sadly no longer with me, that this would always be my favourite Christmas song. And for once in my life, I was right. 46 years later, it still is. I don't mind admitting that the beauty of Greg's performance and the memories this evokes, never fails to bring a tear.
Thank You for sharing this with us.
Toyah Wilcox did a good version of this in the early 1980s.Track it down.Fantastic.
Mine too
Same for me Christopher only I was 15 in 1975, but totally the best Chritmas song.
Good stuff I was 13 they don’t make too many as good as this
It's not really Christmas until you hear this song.
100 percent agreed
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@@toddkastner3768 I have always thought that.
Yep..
Yaaaassss!!! Well said, Sir.
It's my miracle song. I suffered a miscarriage on Christmas Eve. At the hospital they confirmed this and scheduled a d&c for later that morning. I was set up to start the procedure when the doctor examining me said "you're still pregnant!" Say what? I guess it was twins and only one died. The other was born on7/4/86!
Was a pregnant woman were greg wife,was being pregnant
Boy, this song sure resonates in December 2023… 😔💕🎄
You never spoke a truer word.
More than ever.....
Reminds of when the world was a better place
You are so,so right.too much war, pain and suffering.any way I don't know you but happy Christmas friend love+peace to all💛🙏
48 years since this was released and nothing changes - how sad.
Sadly when you search this song on most streamers, the original Greg Lake version ranks below the covers. This is a true masterpiece and one of the best Christmas songs ever written. RIP Greg Lake.
He has the dubious honour of having died in the Great Cull of 2016.
Could not have said it better myself
Honeymoon Suite does a very worthy cover. Johnnie Dee hits a homer with the vocals!
Could not said it any better, you hit the nail on the head, as a none Christian this tells the truth.
Im not into Christmas songs, but this has a edge, great lyrics and true, as a non Christian this makes sense.
I'm 62 years old, been listening to this song for years and it still makes me cry, every time I watch the video, especially towards the end. RIP Greg and Keith
im 73 and feel the same emotions as you
In the middle at 65 couldnt wait to get my 50p in the juke box on the finishing work piss up
I thought it was just me.
FM darlings. I’m not quite as old as you lot but I’m not far behind. Great song and lovely to hear it touches you like it does me.
Ditto completely
They said there'll be snow at Christmas
They said there'll be peace on earth
But instead it just kept on raining
A veil of tears for the virgin birth
I remember one Christmas morning
A winter's light and a distant choir
And the peal of a bell and that Christmas tree smell
And their eyes full of tinsel and fire
They sold me a dream of Christmas
They sold me a silent night
And they told me a fairy story
'Til I believed in the Israelite
And I believed in father Christmas
I looked to the sky with excited eyes
That I woke with a yawn in the first light of dawn
And I saw him and through his disguise
I wish you a hopeful Christmas
I wish you a brave new year
All anguish, pain and sadness
Leave your heart and let your road be clear
They said there'd be snow at Christmas
They said there'll be peace on earth
Hallelujah, Noel be it heaven or hell
The Christmas we get we deserve
Thank you for the lyrics!❤❤
When I was 16 years old, in 1983, I sat in my car and listened to this song and cried. I had grown up, childhood was gone, the fairytales and promises had all been broken, but I was hopeful too. Very typical of Gen X, we grew up fast and saw through the lies early on, and this song summed it all up for me.... and I still remain hopeful all these years later. Merry Christmas everyone. Sending love and joy and prayers to you and yours!
This boomer wants you to know these feelings are universal. Every generation goes through them. We are so much more alike than different, never let the divisions of age, ethnicity, gender, nationality, or any other "difference" keep us from working together to right the wrongs and make our world a better place. There ARE good things happening, but you'd never know it when the media makes more money from doomscrolling. Blessed be!
... your post just made me cry
🕊️ from a GenXer
Happy Christmas xx 🕊️❤
Well said . memories and hope .
Yes it's Christmas 2023.. Anyone listning.. ❤
Nobody, the dogs of war are loose nobody listens to the cries and bombs
@@joseizquierdo1008
My you are offended 🤡
been listening since '75..🎄
enjoy your holidays and your life!
@@kappy4493
I have a great life. Thank you ❤️
One of the most under-rated Christmas tunes out there. This is such a Masterpiece from the late Greg Lake.
@pandadarts180 You did actually listen to the lyrics, didn't you? It's not a traditional Christmas song by any means. It's melody and arrangement is a Trojan Horse that pulls the mask off Christmas and its phony trappings.
Jingle Bell Rock (The male version) is more underrated than this
Ahree
For sure
RIP Greg Lake. 🌲
In my humble opinion this is the greatest Christmas song ever written. It stands head and shoulders above all else. I'm a huge ELP fan and was lucky enough to see them live a couple of times. His voice was as good live as the recorded version. RIP Greg Lake, you had the voice of an angel.
One thing to note, though, is that it was built in the shoulders of a giant. It took the main theme from “Troika” by Prokofiev
Dont be humble........this is the best ever.....nothing comes close.
My dad passed away nearly 3 months ago. This was his favourite Christmas song. Miss you Dad merry Christmas
God bless your father ❤🙏
So sorry for your loss. May Heavenly Father comfort you and help you through this trial.
So sorry Katy for the loss of your dear dad. I hope you can have a good Christmas 💙x
It's true what they say time is a healer.Sympathy for your loss
Merry heavenly Christmas ⛄ Mr Field ❤
Greg was right, we were sold a story.
He’s talking about over commercialization.
My dad passed away earlier this year - this was our favourite Christmas song and it will be so so so bitter sweet to hear this song over Christmas this year. Love you dad.
My heartfelt condolences to you, friend. May your dad Rest In Peace. I wish you and your loved ones comfort, consolation and strength to attain healing. This is my favorite Christmas song too and while I have never met you, you and your loved ones will be in my heart throughout the Christmas season.
My father also liked ELP. He passed in 1998, Leukemia. 57 years old and me too this year.
@@davebloombeat Nice 🙂
This year I beat my one year younger Sister to send this Greg Masterpiece to her. Our tradition thing. 😊!
@@davidforget6906 Thank you for sharing, David. Like cbullar2773, you show a lot of inner strength and courage to share something so heartbreaking and personal. I am so sorry for your loss, but the love in your heart you feel for your father keeps him forever alive within you. I wish you comfort during this Christmas season and pray you attain brighter days.
ah, love it, when it came out in 75, parents still alive, many relations still with us, i was 13...now ive blinked and im 61........happy christmas everyone, hug your families.
Amen 🤍🙏🤍
All the very best to you and your family what a beautiful comment ,may your god bless you
Thank you…and may your God be with you.
Chris, I was a 20 year old United States Marine back in 1975, when this was a hit. My Mom and Dad were still living too. They died in 2002 Mom and Dad 2003, I really miss them. Sometimes Christmas season can be tough.
theyre watching over you ..happy christmas enoy it thats what they would want.@@usmc-veteran7316
Im nearly 70. This song still pulls at my heart strings and i have to hear it every Christmas. 😊
Me too brings back a taurks nostalgia
😢 3:28 candle in every window
I’m 72. I fell in love with this song . I was a huge ELP fan. Have all their albums. I love Christmas, even though I’m Jewish. But every time I heard this song it just put me in such a beautiful moment of the Christmas spirit. And hoping for peace on earth.
I felt a huge loss when he died bc he truly had one of the best voices of our lifetime.
I was at a Christmas concert once long ago and a middle school girl who looked very mousy and introverted who soloed this song with the choir backing up the chorus parts and she sang like an angel and she nailed it big time. She cried as all stood for an ovation not believing what we had witnessed.....Great song
A beautiful story!
A beautiful memory, thanks for sharing this. I wonder what happened to her, hopefully she kept on singing.
@@mikecwikla9171 k Kiko
Your story brought a tear to my eye, I can imagine it was pure magic ✨🎄
Wow good for her ❤
For those of us who feel ambivalent about Christmas, this song hits just right.
@dearly beloved Good and bad, mixed feelings.
LISTEN TO STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND. LEON RUSSELL.
@dearly beloved MIXED FEELINGS.
Me!!
Agreed! In general I don’t care for Christmas music but this brings tears to my eyes it’s so beautiful
"They said there'd be snow at Christmas
They said there'll be peace on earth
Hallelujah, Noel be it heaven or hell
The Christmas we get we deserve."
I was a university freshman the year this came out, and these lines get me every time. Especially this year....
Greg Lake RIP.
Honestly, I guess my story is a bit messy compared to the ones I have read here BUT:
I was 12 years old and my Dad was working on a 1976 Monte’ Carlo. I “Borrowed” it on Christmas Eve Morning 1983…….. and drove around for awhile smoking cigarettes and being “cool”. It was raining that day and I I was sitting at a stop light crying my eyes out listening to THIS song. I am now 52 and still cry to this song. Merry Christmas and May God Bless ALL OF YOU AND YOURS. Peace friends.
🙏❤️🙏
May God bless you too. Thanks for sharing.
God is most unlikely to bless those who agree with the line of the song that sayes the birth & life of his son was just a fairy tale!
@@ayounglivelysoulinanoldtir3512 I don’t think any of us do.
God loves and forgives any that do.
The only Christmas song that is as wondrous as the carols written 200 years ago.
Carol O'connor?
I agree 1,000%!!!
@john turner, so true, the production is epic.
That’s it!
I completely agree, there's just something very special about it that defies description, something that has to be felt as well as heard.🌹
Sadly we don't hear Christmas songs like this anymore.
Yeah I miss them 😔
I have it on one of my Xmas Comps is great.I heard apparently is ranked one of the lowest Xmas Songs ever should be one of the greatest how he says it can't always get your wish and the advertised and comercalised is true always has been over the years and gets worst just for 1 day of the year or 2days as it cycles around the World 🌎🌍
Merry Christmas to blessed people.. like forever 🎵🎵🎵
and that's a long long long time 💞
🍷 A toast to the Most HIGHEST ✨
🌹 until we meet again 🎶🎶🎶
to hell with israel. Free Palestine.
@@HarHah I don't know who the blessed people are.
Nor the most highest, but I hope you had a lovely Christmas, and have a happy new year.
I love this song ❤️🎄🎅
My dad passed away in January. He was a big ELP fan and loved this song. RIP dad ❤
I'm sorry for your loss but I must say your Dad had great taste. This is piece of seriously underrated musical art which I'm sure people will listen to and enjoy long after our time in this World. Merry Christmas 👍❤
Bless you, may your best memories of your dad, lift you up. Sweet person⭐️💫.
I lost my dad at age 32, when he was 67, I missed out, it does get easier though. Give yourself plenty of time to grieve. Peace.
Still listening in March of 2023!🤗
Simply the best Christmas song ever.
100% agree :)
I've loved this since it came out in '75.
I agree but it's not a Christmas song, it's an anti war song
It really is.....an queen thank god its xmas 2and lol
@@nnjsingleguy The title is : 'I believe in Father Christmas' that's the clue it's a Christmas song. It's one of the many songs that mentions Christmas throughout. Where does it mention war? Don't bring political garbage into a post about a beautiful song. There's always someone who wants to spoil things
This is the first christmas without my mom she left us December 11 2021 she was 102 , Merry Christmas mom i love you so much.
I am about to experience my first.
The ache is deep.
My condolences for your loss.
Peace to you.
Amen sending peace and love. 🤍🕊🤍
@@jimsmith9853 Lost mine Christmas 2022. The void is vast, but here's some love to fill what it can
The line "All anguish, pain and sadness.Leave your heart and let your road be clear" gets me every time. Isn't that what is really important in life? No how many presents you may get at Christmas, not material things. Having a life with less stress and more happiness is everything. Still the best Christmas song and a memory of childhood Christmases from the 70's and 80's.
Certainly the most powerful Christmas song ever recorded.
I was 11 when this was released. A new young teacher at school gave an assembly using this record. With the hall in near darkness except for the christmas tree lights, this played as we filed in. I had never heard anything so cool before. Brings a tear all these years later. Thank you Mr Baker hope youre safe and well wherever you are. Will forever remember your assembly that dark winter morning, and its message. The christmas we get we deserve.
What a lovely memory
What a wonderful teacher you had. Be thankful.
That face and that voice
Wow sounds magical
That's a lovely memory. I'd by 15 when this was released. It brings back great memories of a forgotten world.
This song will forever stop me dead in my tracks. Hauntingly beautiful guitar intro... Crisp vocals and just a masterpiece of a song. Most under-rated Xmas song ever.
when they have a top 40 xmas song it always comes in the 20s or early 30s....it would be in my top 3....
Thanks for your share. Thr first time I ever heard this on the radio, I was paralyzed. The most incredible haunting melody I had ever heard.
Ethereal, ineffable. I spent many years attempting to identify the name and artists. God finally had Mercy on me and it was revealed to me. As powerful as Handel's Messiah! Merry Christmas Everyone
Amen Ray... We've Loved Greg Since the Early Daze... MERRY CHRISTMAS y'all... Citrus Heights Calif 🌷🌻🙏✌😎
One of the best, equally as good as a spaceman came traveling
Yes it sparkles with Xmas glitter my friend
The one Christmas song you can listen to any day of the year and enjoy. Beautiful.
You are absolutely correct. When this comes on in my shuffle in May, it stays on.
Yes I agree first I've heard an I love it sad the singer has passed.😅
I play this on my guitar, I play it all year round, at least twice a week, it just sounds so good on an acoustic guitar, it's a song about peace at the end of the day. That's my excuse anyway ❤
Yes, this great in the desert with beduins and camels 😊😊😊🎄🇩🇪🎉
The Christmas we get WE DESERVE !!
WE ARE BLIND FOLLOWERS OF HEINOUS VILE CORRUPT GOVS ..
WE SMILE AND LOOK THE OTHER WAY BUYING THEIR LIES FOR ONE MORE DAY OF TRICKERY BECAUSE WE feel blessed.
It's all fake - just as Greg was illustrating .
You buy the beauty of the song and allow the bombs to destroy at the same time.
They sold you a Dream of Christmas ( of life in fact )
This song like John Cougars " Pink Houses "
" little pink houses for you and me "
" it's the simple man baby that pays the bills " ( taxes)
Pay the bills that KILL"
We get the dreams they sell us as millions die at our ignorant hands
Fools Gold - false hopes
Daydreams and make believes
While you sit in the sun
Sipping spritzers vodka and New England Iced tea
You
This is so poignant especially now with all the troubles in the world....a true classis& arguably one of the best Christmas songs ever RIP Greg
I'm going on 67, and Greg's voice still makes ne glad to be alive to hear it.
Mw too...
67. And feel the same
66...Amen
67 here weighing in on Greg's birthday. his voice takes me right back to happier times.
Stay young at heart
Just what I needed to get me in the spirit...it’s been a heck of a year! RIP Greg ❤️
My most favorite holiday song. Happy holidays.
And me we all need to have a great chirstmas
Amen to that
Amen!
My most favourite Christmas song ever. I wish everybody a healthy and happy 2021.
The Christmas we get we deserve.
No truer words..
🖤
Yes
Listening to this in April 2023. Beautiful.
Just turned 13 when this made the charts, watched it on top of the pops, takes me back to a time when all my family were alive and Christmas felt like Christmas.
Correct so many people no longer hear
@brevlod I'm the same age as you, and I feel exactly the same way as you...
Feel the same. Christmas is not the same without our love ones that have passed away. 💖
Little did we kno how crap bein a grown up was gonna be bak then They didn’t tell us that in school haha
Delise
My mum died on 25 Nov 2007 an Iv Neva ad a good Xmas since then but I wish everyone here a happy one this year an every year from now on
RIP Greg Lake. I'm 50 years old and I still believe in Santa Claus.
Why
That's funny
That's kind of funny considering this song is about how the image of Christmas and Santa Claus that is sold to the masses is a big load of corporate BS!
Best anti-corporate Christmas song ever!
Me too
@@zararity Exactly: "And I saw him and through his disguise"
The sight of war and the father returns, sounds true today.
One of the most beautiful Christmas songs ever 😊
not in my book!. a christmas song that calls Jesus a fairytale, has lost the plot of what christmas is about!!!
@@ayounglivelysoulinanoldtir3512 Go cry about it
@@Ridley369it is those that rubbish the messiah & his teachings that will be crying on judgement day, when they get locked out of paradise!
@@ayounglivelysoulinanoldtir3512 The fact that people like you actually exist is hilarious.
The best xmas song for me 😊
Merry Christmas To ALL The E.L.P. Fans Around the World ..
Same to you man!
Same to you!
Same to you.
Amen esp Greg Lake
thank you ,
ELPFAN Jahrling, GREG LAKE loved his music so much, but he wasn't selfish...my best thoughts from romania, gelu batir, jan, 3rd, 2021
Keith Emerson, Greg Lake & Carl Palmer were in a league of their own.
Yup
That, My friend, is an understatement.
Rest in Power Messrs Lake and Emerson.
Yes, I was a big fan of them. I had a couple of their albums. I also attended their concert at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto, in 1973.
@@James_Knott wow so fortunate!
They took music to such a higher level and. Most of all can be sound tracks for so many scenes in so many movies !
Best Christmas song by a country mile.The video could've been made yesterday which is a sad commentary on world affairs
Lost my Father Christmas 2013 and it still hurts so much.
Seems so many people die this time of year.
Love is love
Listening in March 2023..what talent .. RIP Greg Lake.. Real life. Remember this from my childhood with a warm feeling in my heart because I knew no different...now nearly 58 and understand the lyrics as an adult. Frickin' OUCH!
Just superb, the best Christmas song ever written, God Bless Greg Lake.
That's for sure , but it rarely gets played I haven't heard it on the radio for years , yes it takes a rock musician to do it right.
@patrickparker8417 but ultimately it took a classical composer to really make it right... Its the sample of the "Troika" excerpt from Prokofiev's Lieutenant Kijé Suite that really makes this song
@@DaveAndBeth1978 Whatt
@@SuperPatrick777 ???
But he didn't believe in God sadly.
One of the best if not the best Xmas song and very appt considering what's going on in Gaza and Israel.12th November 2023.
Best Christmas song ever.It's not Christmas until I hear this playing on the radio.
Amen brother
Indeed! And that last scene when the boy runs to his dad after he returns from battle. Priceless.
I never hear it unless I search on here.
@@garystevens4303 the company I work for has it's own radio station and its been played on there a couple of times have an awesome Christmas
I'm gl
Greg Lake had such an amazing vocal range. RIP Greg Lake and thank you for the great music you wrote.
Only a rare talent and genius could do a song like this. Hearing this song doesn't bring a tear to my eyes, it gets me sobbing all the time love love love this song. Makes me realize that all my contemporaries are leaving this world way too soon. I tell people all the time don't spend your money on things, instead spend it on making memories. Memories will last longer than material things.
He had a stunning beautiful voice...very unique...
I play guitar and I cannot get the same feel Greg did in this one. I'll keep trying and try to channel him.
With a little help from Prokofiev....😉
@@brumbykj “Troika" by Sergei Prokofiev.
I wonder how many Radiohead fans are aware that their song “Exit Music (from a film)” is lifted from Chopin’s Prelude No. 4?
If the original composer/creator of these old classical pieces died over 70 years ago their works are considered ‘pubic domain’ and not subject to copyright laws.
"The Christmas we get, we deserve" Oh Greg, how perceptive you were..
I listen carefully to Epitaph and I honestly believe he saw ahead of what is to come. Emerson and Keith did help fill in some lyrics for the man with the golden voice.
Peter Sinfield wrote the lyrics to both songs.
@@paul3463 - Greg wouldn't have sang those lyrics unless he believed in them.
Okay? Just saying he didn't write them. Peter Sinfield has a lot to do with Greg's career. Research is your friend.
@@paul3463 - The only research needed was to hear Greg sing those vocals in a manner that made us understand he was projecting them with conviction.
“Hallelujah Noel be it heaven or hell. At Christmas we get we deserve” god what a line
The Christmas we get, we deserve :)
And yes, the kind of line that makes you stop and think.
best line in a great song.
Its so fucking powerful, I love it
@@VivaLaGiygasisn’t it just! Merry Christmas 🎉
It's about commercializing Christmas basically Greg Lake never really cared about this issue he just thought about it one day wrote it down mixed jingles with another song on the guitar and that's how the song became
In 1975 as a young lad I heard this song sat in the back of a car after playing football , without question the most beautiful of Xmas songs , and today as a 60 year old man it still holds memories of Christmas throughout my life , beautiful song with words that evoke sadness and joy.
What a wonderful memory. Thank you for sharing.
The tears fall as I listen to this song it reminds me of happier Christmases long ago when mum and dad and my sister were together as a family 👪
This is one of the best Christmas songs ever which brings tears to people's eyes.
Mine Too........Merry Christmas !!
Couldn't agree more with you there. I just love the gentle guitar music that's played at the beginning of the song, and then ends into a mighty crescendo. This favourite song is simply magic to me, and I listen to it every Christmas time without fail. A true classic by the late Greg Lake.
Merry Christmas everyone!! 🎄
Every time. 😥
hit gave me hope again
It's brought tears to mine. And Christmas was over a month ago.
Such a beautiful number. It never fails go bring tears to my eyes and I'm 70 years old. Maybe it's the memory of past Christmases and watching my circle of relatives and friends slowly diminishing as time goes on.
Happy Christmas to you enjoy your memories
Merry Christmas to everyone!
Thinking of my dad who passed 14 years ago and yeah your right where has the time gone
@@davidsonowski414 time waits for no one it just flies by
Agree my dear mum passed away on the 26th december 2011 my other relatives have Also passed too 🙏🕊🌈
Thinking of you today, Greg, on this sad poignant day 😢
The dad hugging his son at the end, always gets to me 😓
Takes me back to when all the brothers and sisters were at home, and mom and dad were alive
I think that is the magic of the song. It takes you back in time to our younger days when friends and relatives were all alive and happy. Sadly these times are gone but the song and memories live on as will this fantastic song.
Yes Exactly the feelings this song brings out!!
Great comment got me thinking, my Dad has passed and my wife, but brothers and sister still here. Enjoy it life is too short.
This has lost none of its impact over the years - as fresh as ever.
It's never christmas until I have heard this.
May all see enlightenment and glory. May I see just a little of you.
this is the best christmas song ever written :) what a voice! RIP greg
Agree totally :)
My favourite too
Close but prefer fairytale of new york
So this is Christmas by John Lennon rocks as well.
Chris Rea - Driving home for Christmas. Oh shit, maybe not this year. Stay safe folks.
I just turned 14 and my father called me in one morning and showed me this song and told me when he was young his family had this on record and it wasn't Christmas until this song was played and now he passed on that tradition to me. R.I.P Greg Lake
That's awesome, thanks for sharing ❤
Cool young man. Keep up the tradition. My father also liked Emerson Lake and Palmer. He passed in 1998 57 years old. Now I am 57.
Beautiful x
One of the best rock vocalist. RIP Greg Lake and Keith Emerson.
Of all the Christmas songs ever written this song by Greg Lake is without equal , and it sums up what Christmas has become in the modern world , meaningful lyrics which if listened to really bring home the way humanity has lost its way . Brilliant composition from a member of one of the finest groups from the prog rock era , now just memories and very much missed .
Well said. 😓
Agreed
We will always have the music.
NO WORDS CAN EXPRESS HOW I FEEL ABOUT THIS SONG , BUT ALL SAID IT IS NOT CHRISTMAS UNTIL I HEAR THIS SONG.
It's also interesting. I've heard a radio station play this song on the first snowy day. Even if was the middle of January. The amazing syncronicity was I was driving over the Lion's Gate Bridge just as the orchestra builds to a crescendo. The snow falling down and this song was so perfect. I loved that moment.
This song a gets a little more endearing with every passing year.
to Greg Lake I am 60 yrs old and as a sound man of 15 yrs - a listener of this song since maybe '77 - I must say Bravo this is the Christmas song of our times . it may not have been intended in the beginning but You Sir , created something very special and shared it with all of us and that is something that all musicians strive to do but some achieve this goal to the highest of standards - and that shows in this song !! So i think i speak for all in saying Thank You for this fine piece of music !!! Thank You And Merry Christmas in Heaven
It's THE Christmas song of the postmodern age. If only Greg were still around to perform it.
very well said 👍🏻✌️🙏🏻
So glad i found the name of this song cause it truly resonates with me. At 28 every year i hope for things to change, it never does, but i remain optimistic for the future.
the only kind of Christmas music i don't hate
Can we get this to Christmas number 1 this year, perfect song after this awful year.
I feel like crying with what is going on in our world at the moment 🇦🇺
I have been crying, to much. Their music stirs my heart and gives me hope. Miss their music, bad.😪
Gets my vote
A top notch Christmas song up there with the best beautiful sheer class
It went to number 1 the year he died. I believe it can go back to number one. I love his guitar work.
I pick up my guitar and I play this tune every Christmas. My kids say “oh you’re playing that song again”? Let’s hope they learn to enjoy it as much as I do
keep playing it. When your kids get older they will associate the song with Christmas at home. The voice in their head will say "You know? This song of dad's is really pretty cool"
This is insane - pure genius. First of all, just to have conceived a song like this, then to go out and execute it so brilliantly.
He didn’t purely conceive it. Prokofiev wrote the main catch “Troika”. Though he sampled it well, I’ll give him that.
As a child of the 70s, I always loved this song - listening to this now, at 53 in 2023, the words truly hit me ❤
His guitar playing is underrated.
My father turned me to this great tune many moons ago. He's been deceased for 17 years now. (1948-2005). I am forever grateful to hear this every Christmas season
My Father also loved this song, he was also a 1948 baby and passed in 2006. I’m so sorry for your loss. I also have sentimental value in this song.
Sending love from the UK to all who've lost one or more ❤
ohhhh pps......my dad always played this track on xmas, also born 1948 and died in 2006....group huggles
Yes it reminds me of my Mom and Dad too.
hey, are you that canadian cat from the BTO, man? you're flippin' AWESOME, DUDE~~~~~
but in any case, respecto, sir: yes my parents are boomers too and i'm so lucky they've been here for all my years so far, wow, they made it look very easy when their parents passed away... i don't think i could handle nearly as well, a thing like that no matter how old i get to gettin'.. i'm already almost 58 and i think i'll never make it to anywhere near-their-age... nor do i think it's gonnabe real desirable _as-it-is-now-seen_ ... ha ha~
I still remember listening to this as a child and listening still today in 2023 great Christmas song
Greg Lake was probably the most unrecognised member of Emerson Lake and Palmer. For me this song shows off his talent, so much more than just a bass player. Listen to this song every Christmas (I'm 70) still loved still missed xx
No way was Greg Lake the most {unrecognized} band member; he was their “ voice “ for goodness sake, peace and carry on cheers :)
It wasn’t Christmas until this song was heard in our house growing up. 🥰
Yes same here what a song
I was born in 1972 and this song absolutely hits Christmas home to me. The instant I hear it I'm 7 or 8 years' old again.
I was born 2 days before Christmas that year. This is my favourite Christmas song.
72 here too. The year of the Rat. I remember hearing this as a young kid too and knew it was magic
75
i was born in 65 ,Memories bro Memories , pure feeling this tune.
I was 5 when this was out and my first Christmas that I could clearly remember. My Dad had spent hours, assembling a toy garage for me and I loved it for years. Bless him, all that and partially-sighted.
This song almost has me welling up now, some 45years hence, when I would love a brief jump back to see that particular time if only for a few hours so I could see my Mum again
THIS IS CHRISTMAS! Nothing else to add or diminish. Perfection of humanity found in the sublime art of the humble genius. Oh what a lucky man he was!
Also
A requiem for the peace on earth
RIP Greg Lake
"Hallelujah, Noel, be it Heaven or Hell, the Christmas we get, we deserve" !
Many years ago I was compelled to fill the instrumental break Troika during the outro when the child runs to his father with choral lyrics inspired by John and Yoko "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)". Please include them at 2:55
A very merry Christmas war is over only if you want it to be
Have a peaceful new year one without the fear
We can all live in harmony.
RIP Greg, wished I'd released these earlier I think you would've approved.
Thanks. I read those lyrics above (after the song had finished) and wondered if they'd left out words, but with correct punctuation, it makes sense.
Classic song..everyone deserves a good xmas...
So sad and cynical
One of the best Christmas songs ever written. The lyrics make you stop and think. Merry Christmas to everyone!
Some people are true visionaries, this guy proved that
All the modern christmas songs now feel like comercialized nonsense. There is no authenticity to them. This one you can really hear that he put his heart and soul into it. I enjoy how it starts with a simple tune and builds up to a roaring climax while delivering a heartfelt message.
4 years ago today he passed away. The best Christmas song but it doesn't get the airplay it deserves!. RIP Greg
This is THE song of the season this year! "Hallelujah Noel, Be it Heaven or Hell, the Christmas we get we deserve." Couldn't be more true of a statement.
We'll, Nick. We must not deserve much because most of us are getting royally fuct.
Feel blessed Nick! Blessings from Germany 🙋♀️
An abuse victim may be beaten into agreeing with you..
@@asnieres32 of course we don't deserve it.. human rats spreading this vial disease.
Amen!!
47 years old and still a timeless Christmas Classic, Enjoy 😀🌲🎅
i was 7 years old when this came out and it still makes me have a tear in my eye. i`m 6` 3` but still a softee for a great song.
Absolutely right
One of the best songs ever. This guy talked about how the world REALLY is. My Christmases.....from the beginning. I'm now 57..
Same age. And sadly so little changes every year
The father hugging his kid at the end just kills me. Tears.
Same here. I'm a Veteran and I think of all the Vets who shared this type of moment, and sadly those who never made it home. Peace my friend.
Peace to my fellow humans.
Christmas is upon us.
Many years ago I was compelled to fill the instrumental break Troika during the outro when the child runs to his father with choral lyrics inspired by John and Yoko "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)". Please include them at 2:55
A very merry Christmas war is over only if you want it to be
Have a peaceful new year one without the fear
We can all live in harmony.
RIP Greg, wished I'd released these earlier I think you would've approved.
This is the first time I am hearing and seeing this ; Absolutely beautiful ; And , yes , tears well shed ...
Me too.
Thank god someone else acknowledges this moment, This moment still tears me up even to this day at age 19, That's what christmas is meant to be about, love and reunion
Greg actually wrote this, when he was a little kid. Shows you his genius.
There is no comparison with this song. Sums up all my childhood nostalgia.
My favourite Christmas song. The only one that tells the truth about the commercialism of Christmas. Despite the song's cynicism it leaves us with the message:- " I wish you a hopeful Christmas
I wish you a brave new year, All anguish, pain and sadness leave your heart and let your road be clear". RIP Greg Lake.
When this song first came out my little two years old niece was in hospital she had leukemia this was in the charts and it summed up what I thought about Christmas at that time. that was in the 1970's and that little girl is still with us. So anytime I hear the song that's where i am taken to a hospital bed with a scared little girl. God bless the NHS.
The first Christmas after my husband's bone marrow transplant (5 month ordeal) also for leukemia was a mixture of crying and laughing as we trimmed our tree. He was transplanted 1990 and also still with his family.
One of the best Christmas songs ever wrote and sang. Who else other than Greg Lake to perform this classic song. RIP Greg Lake.
This has always been my favourite Christmas song
its my LEAST favourate, bevause it calls the saviour a fairytale!!!!!!
@@ayounglivelysoulinanoldtir3512 To paraphrase John 10:37-38 slightly - ' If I am doing not the deeds of my father do not believe in me. If I am doing them and you will still not believe in me, believe in the work I do.'
18 when this came out still I cry…..
Brilliant, brilliant song. Doesn’t get the credit it deserves.
But we get the Christmas we deserve
Vincent haha - yes we certainly do.
Ask the average person about this song, the answer will be "Never heard"
Sad but true
There will always be room in my heart for Christmas 1975 xx
Lump in my throat at the boy running to his farther at the end x
RIP Greg...this is my favorite Christmas song...