Carol of the Bells, a song never intended to be a Christmas staple, is mashed up with another not-exactly-a-Christmas-song titled Wayfaring Stranger, in a collaboration of BYU Vocal Point with the sensational father/daughter duo of Mat and Savannah Shaw:
You likely have heard the song Wayfaring Stranger before. It is a traditional American folk tune that has seen many interpretations over the years. It has been famously covered by the likes of Burl Ives, Emma Lou Harris and Johnny Cash, just to name a few.
Does it fit in this mash-up of non-traditional Christmas? Check out the lyrics and you decide:
I’m just a poor wayfaring stranger
Traveling through this world below
There’s no sickness, no toil or danger
In that bright land to which I go
I’m going there to see my father
And all my loved ones, who’ve gone on
I’m just going over Jordan
I’m just going over home
I know dark clouds will gather ’round me
I know my way is hard and steep
Yet beauteous fields arise before me
Where God’s...
