Christmas is Coming
Traditional Nursery Rhyme
Christmas is coming, the geese are getting fat
Please to put a penny in the old man’s hat;
If you haven’t got a penny, a ha’penny will do,
If you haven’t got a ha’penny then God bless you.
Tom’s Best of 2018 Top 10 Songs
Here’s my favorite 10 new songs from 2018. These are the top 10 out of 36 songs that made my combined two CD set this year.
1). High Horse – Kacey Musgraves
2). Sensitive – Brother Ali
3). Army Of Clay – Belly
4). Singing to Me – Parker Millsap
5). Seventeen – Tomberlin
6). Wither with You – Rolling Blackouts
7). Summer’s End – John Prine
8). Best Years of My Life – Pistol Annies
9). Kindness of Strangers – Courtney Marie Anderson
10). Beyond – Leon Bridges
Tom’s Best of 2018 – Complete Albums – Top Five
These are my favorite albums this year that literally doesn’t have a bad song on the entire album even though in some cases no one song made my top 10 and in the case of Dessa didn’t even make my best of CDs. Dessa’s album is fantastic when taken all together, but a bit depressing and clashed when I tried to include in the mix. What are you favorite new songs of 2018? What was your favorite new CD or Album of this year?
1). Belly – Dove
2). Van William – Cosmic Sign
3). I’m With Her – See You Around
4). Kacey Musgraves – Golden Hour
5). Justin Courtney Pierre – In The Drink
6). Dessa – Chime
Mistletoe a Christmas
by Walter de la Mare
Sitting under the mistletoe
(Pale-green, fairy mistletoe),
One last candle burning low,
All the sleepy dancers gone,
Just one candle burning on,
Shadows lurking everywhere:
Some one came, and kissed me there.
Tired I was; my head would go
Nodding under the mistletoe
(Pale-green, fairy mistletoe),
No footsteps came, no voice, but only,
Just as I sat there, sleepy, lonely,
Stooped in the still and shadowy air
Lips unseen—and kissed me there.
Fourteen Lines 