Celtic Thunder - Christmas 1915 (A Silent Night) (Key: OR Dmaj - BV)

Title: Christmas 1915 (A Silent Night)
Format: MP3 Backing Track - Instrumental - Karaoke
Created in the style of: Celtic Thunder
Genre: Classical & Classical Crossover; Group & Choir; Christmas; Military & Wartime Music; Opera, Operatic Pop & Lieder
Language: English
Era: 2010s
Key: OR Dmaj
Backing vocals: Yes
More info: Celtic Thunder is an Irish singing group and stage show that was formed in 2007.
Lyrics: Yes
 
1915 on Christmas Day
On the Western Front the guns all died away
And lying in the mud on bags of sand
We heard a German sing from no man's land
 
He had a tenor voice so pure and true
The words were strange, but every note we knew
Soaring o’er the living, dead and damned
The German sang of peace from no man's land
 
They left their trenches and we left ours
Beneath tin hats the smiles bloomed like wild flowers
With photos, cigarettes and pots of wine
We built a soldier's truce on the front line
 
Their singer was a lad of 21
We begged another song before the dawn
And sitting in the mud and blood and fear
He sang again the song all longed to hear
 
Silent night, no cannons’ roar
A king is born of peace for evermore
All's calm, all's bright
All brothers hand in hand
In 19 and 15 in no man's land
 
And in the morning all the guns boomed in the rain
And we killed them and they killed us again
At night they charged; we fought them hand to hand
And I killed the boy that sang in no man's land
 
Silent night, no cannons’ roar
A king is born of peace for evermore
All's calm, all's bright
All brothers hand in hand
And that young soldier sings
And the song of peace still rings
Though the captains and all the kings
Built no man's land
Sleep in heavenly peace
 
Composer: CORMAC MACCONNELL