{"id":31878,"date":"2020-12-13T11:49:32","date_gmt":"2020-12-13T18:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/?p=31878"},"modified":"2020-12-13T11:49:32","modified_gmt":"2020-12-13T18:49:32","slug":"do-you-hear-what-i-hear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/do-you-hear-what-i-hear\/","title":{"rendered":"Best of New Christmas Music: Do You Hear What I Hear by Gentri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Do You Hear What I Hear<\/em> is not really all that old of a <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> song. But it is a classic and one that has been covered twice this year by Gentri, who we admit have become one of our perennial <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> favs:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/S6QY-ODKYmI\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>That video above is the live studio version with Bri Ray &#8212; and it is a stunner, no?<\/p>\n<p>But don&#8217;t forget this other version, featuring the kids telling the Nativity story:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bGxpxvWNADY\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Both of these versions are worthy of our attention &#8212; for both their musicality and they message.<\/p>\n<p>The song was born in the fall of 1962, a troubled time if there ever was one. It was a tense time, a time when the world was on the verge of war. It is an anthem for <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/sneaking-christmas\/\">peace<\/a>, which is, of course, at the very core of the message of <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Said the night wind to the little lamb,<br \/>\ndo you see what I see<br \/>\nWay up in the sky, little lamb,<br \/>\ndo you see what I see<br \/>\nA star, a star, dancing in the night<br \/>\nWith a tail as big as a kite<br \/>\nWith a tail as big as a kite<\/p>\n<p>Said the little lamb to the shepherd boy,<br \/>\ndo you hear what I hear<br \/>\nRinging through the sky, shepherd boy,<br \/>\ndo you hear what I hear<br \/>\nA song, a song, high above the trees<br \/>\nWith a voice as big as the sea<br \/>\nWith a voice as big as the sea<\/p>\n<p>Said the shepherd boy to the mighty king,<br \/>\ndo you know what I know<br \/>\nIn your palace warm, mighty king,<br \/>\ndo you know what I know<br \/>\nA Child, a Child shivers in the cold<br \/>\nLet us bring Him silver and gold<br \/>\nLet us bring Him silver and gold<\/p>\n<p>Said the king to the people everywhere,<br \/>\nlisten to what I say<br \/>\nPray for <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/sneaking-christmas\/\">peace<\/a>, people everywhere!<br \/>\nlisten to what I say<br \/>\nThe Child, the Child, sleeping in the night<br \/>\nHe will bring us goodness and light<br \/>\nHe will bring us goodness and light<\/p>\n<p>It has become something of a tradition to feature Gentri each year during these &#8220;Best of <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> music&#8221; features. The reason we do this each year is pretty simple: these men have the Spirit of <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> and great talent in bringing for a wonderful message in music.<\/p>\n<p>We want them to know we DO hear them. And we&#8217;re grateful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do You Hear What I Hear is not really all that old of a Christmas song. But it is a classic and one that has been covered twice this year by Gentri, who we admit have become one of our perennial Christmas favs: That video above is the live studio version with Bri Ray &#8212; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31879,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","iawp_total_views":52,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2],"tags":[508],"class_list":["post-31878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christmas-music","category-christmas-news","tag-gentri"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}