Lyrics

10JAN2021
Words and Music by Jay Banwell
BPM=78
Christmas Day 1944
1st Verse
Christmas wishes passed around
Wounded soldiers hunker down
We check on one of our guys
The surgeons removed his eye

2nd Verse
Soldiers post with frozen feet
Midnight Mass is just the treat
The warmth goes right thru our skin
Homesickness quickly sets in

Chorus
Let’s not talk about the war
It’s Christmas Day 1944

Bridge

3rd Verse
Mortars knock us on our backs
Medics dying from attacks
The trench gets hit by a shell
Our troops are screaming like hell

Chorus