FLINT HILLS CHRISTMAS NIGHT - Song Page
© words & music by Annie Wilson
from CD Sky & Water, Wind & Grass
Album Note: This song attempts to capture the peaceful imagery and atmosphere of this most special of winter evenings in the Flint Hills. We incorporated instrumental phrases from some of our favorite Christmas carols between verses.
This video shares Flint Hills wintertime photos to illustrate this song.
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LYRICS:
The deep red buckbrush berries
The cedar’s forest green
The frosting of new-fallen snow
In the moonlight’s silver gleam
In these grasslands half a world away
From Bethlehem’s far hills
The stars still shine their light to tell
Of kindness and good will
(Instrumental: Oh Little Town of Bethlehem)
The upland pastures empty
The yearlings shipped and gone
The prairie grass lies dormant
Asleep the winter long
The cows are in the lowlands
Bedded ‘neath the spreading oaks
The whitetail doe beside her fawn
There nestled in her coat
God’s peace lies here before us
In these gentle hills of white
In the beauty and the comfort of
This Flint Hills Christmas night
(Instrumental: Good King Wenceslas)
The horses gaze the moonlight
And bend to eat some hay
They take their winter rest and wait
For rides in warmer days
The saddles and the bridles
And chaps are in the barn
The blankets in the tack room
Keep the baby kittens warm
CHORUS
(Instrumental: Joy to the World)
The coyote mother lifts her head
To sing her winter song
It echoes cross the hilltops:
As she holds the last note long
The parents in the ranch-house
Tuck their children in for night
With a story to remind them
To be thankful and be kind
CHORUS
(Instrumental: Silent Night)
