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Bill Gaither - Gaither Vocal Band - All Heaven And Nature Sing

December 25, 2024 | S

Bill Gaither - Gaither Vocal Band - All Heaven And Nature Sing
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Gaither Gospel | Bill Gaither - Gaither Vocal Band - All Heaven And Nature Sing | December 25, 2024
  • ♪how they linger♪
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  • ♪how they ever flood my soul♪
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  • Bill gaither: an unforgettable memory was made when dozens of friends...
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  • ... who had spent their lives in gospel music...
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  • ... gathered to sings some songs from their own...
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  • ... personal treasure of memories.
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  • For these folks, many precious memories...
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  • ... had begun around a piano somewhere.
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  • They're sharing songs about how their lives have been changed...
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  • ... by god's amazing grace.
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  • ♪precious scenes unfold♪
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  • All: ♪ heaven and nature sing. ♪
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  • ♪ heaven and nature sing. heaven and nature sing. ♪
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  • ♪ heaven and nature sing. ♪
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  • ♪ heaven and nature sing. heaven and nature sing. ♪
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  • ♪ heaven and nature sing. ♪
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  • ♪ a seed shall sprout in bethlehem, ♪
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  • ♪ a gentle tender shoot, ♪
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  • ♪ a king to rule in israel from jesse's ancient root. ♪
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  • ♪ an angel and a peasant girl, a song of simple praise. ♪
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  • ♪ "my soul does magnify the lord," ♪
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  • ♪ sweet hymn does mary raise. ♪
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  • ♪ and the song goes on. ♪
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  • - ♪ heaven and nature sing. ♪
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  • - ♪ and the song goes on. ♪
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  • - ♪ heaven and nature sing. ♪
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  • - ♪ and the song goes on. ♪
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  • - ♪ heaven and nature sing. ♪
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  • ♪ and the song goes on, and on. ♪
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  • ♪ joy to the world. the lord is come. ♪
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  • ♪ and the song goes on, ♪
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  • ♪ and on, and on. ♪
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  • ♪ a journey long, no vacancy, a stable in a cave. ♪
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  • ♪ some cows and sheep for company, ♪
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  • ♪ a manger and some hay. ♪
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  • ♪ ooh-ooh. ♪
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  • ♪ a hillside where some shepherds sleep, ♪
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  • ♪ a flood of blinding light. ♪
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  • ♪ a glorious song of angel choirs ♪
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  • ♪ explode into the night. ♪
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  • ♪ and the song goes on. ♪
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  • - ♪ heaven and nature sing. ♪
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  • - ♪ and the song goes on. ♪
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  • - ♪ heaven and nature sing. ♪
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  • - ♪ and the song goes on. ♪
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  • - ♪ heaven and nature sing. ♪
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  • ♪ and the song goes on, and on. ♪
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  • - ♪ oh, come let us adore him. ♪
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  • - ♪ and the song goes on, ♪
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  • ♪ and on, and on. ♪
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  • ♪ the song of mary, angel's song, ♪
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  • ♪ still to this very day... ♪
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  • - ♪ ba-da-da-ba-da-ba-ba. ♪
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  • - ♪ the song that filled that holy night ♪
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  • ♪ will never fade away. ♪
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  • ♪ and the song goes on. ♪
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  • - ♪ heaven and nature sing. ♪
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  • - ♪ and the song goes on. ♪
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  • - ♪ heaven and nature sing. ♪
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  • - ♪ and the song goes on. ♪
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  • - ♪ heaven and nature sing. ♪
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  • - ♪ and the song goes on, and on. ♪
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  • ♪ and he shall reign ♪
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  • ♪ forever and ever. ♪
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  • - ♪ and the song goes on, ♪
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  • ♪ and on, and on. ♪
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  • - here we go. - ♪ and the song goes on. ♪
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  • - ♪ heaven and nature sing. ♪
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  • - ♪ and the song goes on. ♪
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  • - ♪ heaven and nature sing. ♪
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  • - ♪ and the song goes on. ♪
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  • - ♪ heaven and nature sing. ♪
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  • - ♪ and the song goes on. ♪
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  • - ♪ heaven and nature sing. ♪
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  • - ♪ and the song goes on. ♪
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  • - ♪ heaven and nature sing. ♪
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  • - ♪ and the song goes on. ♪
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  • - ♪ heaven and nature sing. ♪
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  • - ♪ and the song goes on. ♪
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  • - ♪ heaven and nature sing. ♪
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  • - ♪ and the song goes on. ♪
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  • - ♪ heaven and nature sing. ♪
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  • - ♪ and the song goes on, ♪
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  • ♪ and on, and on. ♪
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  • - yes.
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  • [cheers and applause]
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  • - ♪ and the song goes on. ♪
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  • - ♪ heaven and nature sing. ♪
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  • - ♪ and the song goes on. ♪
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  • - ♪ heaven and nature sing. ♪
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  • - ♪ and the song goes on. ♪
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  • - ♪ heaven and nature sing. ♪
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  • - ♪ and the song goes on. ♪
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  • - ♪ heaven and nature sing. ♪
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  • - ♪ and the song goes on. ♪
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  • - ♪ heaven and nature sing. ♪
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  • - ♪ and the song goes on. ♪
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  • - ♪ heaven and nature sing. ♪
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  • - ♪ and the song goes on. ♪
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  • - ♪ heaven and nature sing. ♪
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  • - ♪ and the song goes on. ♪
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  • - ♪ heaven and nature sing. ♪
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  • - ♪ and the song goes on, ♪
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  • ♪ and on, and on. ♪
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  • - yes. - yeah.
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  • [cheers and applause]
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  • - ♪ and the song goes on. ♪
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  • - ♪ heaven and nature sing. ♪
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  • - ♪ and the song goes on. ♪ - ♪ heaven and nature sing. ♪
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  • Bill: the story of creation begins
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  • With the sound that some call the big bang.
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  • The bible calls it the word.
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  • In the beginning was the word.
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  • The account in genesis tells us
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  • That there was peace and joy,
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  • Creativity, sweet relationships
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  • From the very beginning.
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  • God and the companions he made
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  • Walking together in the cool of the day
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  • In a place full of sounds of nature making music.
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  • But deception and shame muffled the song,
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  • Stole away the glory
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  • God intended his companions to know.
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  • But even then, there was always the promise
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  • That the song that heaven and nature sang
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  • Would one day return
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  • And there would be peace and joy again.
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  • No wonder, that night on the hills of judea,
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  • The heavens burst open with the song of the angels.
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  • Even the lowly shepherds couldn't miss the message.
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  • The glory that had always echoed through the heavens
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  • Had returned to earth to us.
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  • The angels sang it. young mary sang it.
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  • Joy restored,
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  • Glory returned to earth, to us.
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  • - ♪ be near me, lord jesus, ♪
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  • ♪ i ask thee to stay. ♪
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  • Bill: and those who hear it can't stop singing it.
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  • The song just won't stop.
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  • Even in the darkest of times, there is the song.
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  • Each generation added verses to the song.
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  • Children sing it. old folks sing it.
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  • Voices echo it. instruments play it.
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  • The song rises in every language
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  • From every corner of the earth,
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  • Joining again the alpha song of creation.
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  • Heaven and nature sing it.
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  • A savior is born.
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  • Gvb: ♪ and the song goes on. ♪
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  • Chorus: ♪ heaven and nature sing. ♪
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  • Gvb: ♪ and the song goes on. ♪
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  • - now it's up to us.
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  • It's up to us to sing the song.
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  • And i can't think of better voices to do that
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  • Than these guys that i travel with all year long.
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  • Wes hampton, reggie smith,
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  • Todd suttles, adam crabb,
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  • The gaither vocal band.
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  • Join us. let heaven and nature sing
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  • And let the song go on,
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  • And on, and on.
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  • - ♪ mm. ♪ - all right, boys.
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  • - come on, now.
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  • - let's check it out.
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  • All: ♪ look who just checked in, ♪
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  • ♪ into the barn, into the world, ♪
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  • ♪ into the hearts of the boys and girls. ♪
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  • ♪ never met a baby quite like him. ♪
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  • ♪ look who just checked in. ♪
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  • ♪ look who just checked in, ♪
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  • ♪ into the barn, into the world, ♪
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  • ♪ into the hearts of the boys and girls. ♪
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  • ♪ never met a baby quite like him. ♪
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  • ♪ look who just checked in. ♪
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  • - ♪ he knew us in the garden, ♪
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  • ♪ he brought us through the flood, ♪
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  • ♪ saw a sacrifice of the fire and the blood. ♪
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  • ♪ everybody thought he'd been away for a while ♪
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  • ♪ but he came on down in the form of a child. ♪
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  • All: ♪ look who just checked in, ♪
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  • ♪ into the barn, into the world, ♪
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  • ♪ into the hearts of the boys and girls. ♪
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  • ♪ never met a baby quite like him. ♪
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  • ♪ look who just checked in. ♪
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  • ♪ check out who just checked in. ♪
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  • - ♪ now he made us a promise ♪
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  • ♪ a long time ago... ♪
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  • Both: ♪ the king is a-coming and the world's gonna go. ♪
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  • - ♪ reigns in glory in his home on high. ♪
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  • ♪ came down to take us to the sweet by and by. ♪
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  • All: ♪ look who just checked in, ♪
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  • ♪ into the barn, into the world, ♪
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  • ♪ into the hearts of the boys and girls. ♪
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  • ♪ never met a baby quite like him. ♪
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  • ♪ look who just checked in. ♪
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  • - ♪ he's the prince of peace, the king of kings. ♪
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  • - ♪ lord of the universe and every little thing. ♪
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  • - ♪ emmanuel, it's his time again. ♪
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  • All: ♪ god is with us once again. ♪
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  • ♪ once again. ♪ - ♪ whoo! ♪
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  • All: ♪ look who just checked in, ♪
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  • ♪ into the barn, into the world, ♪
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  • ♪ into the hearts of the boys and girls. ♪
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  • ♪ never met a baby quite like him. ♪
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  • ♪ look who just checked in. ♪
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  • ♪ look who just checked in, ♪
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  • ♪ into the barn, into the world, ♪
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  • ♪ into the hearts of the boys and girls. ♪
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  • ♪ never met a baby quite like him. ♪
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  • ♪ look who just checked in. ♪
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  • ♪ never met a baby quite like him. ♪
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  • ♪ look who just checked in. ♪
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  • ♪ check out who just checked in. ♪
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  • [laughter] - i like that.
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  • [violin melody]
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  • ♪ ♪
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  • All: ♪ be near me, lord jesus. ♪
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  • ♪ i ask thee to stay ♪
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  • ♪ close by me forever ♪
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  • ♪ and love me, i pray. ♪
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  • ♪ bless all the dear children ♪
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  • ♪ in thy tender care. ♪
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  • - ♪ and take us to heaven... ♪
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  • All: ♪ to live with you there. ♪
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  • - i saw him in the drugstore.
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  • He was a big, awkward-looking guy
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  • With work-worn hands.
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  • And he was fumbling through the card section.
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  • The section marked,
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  • "birthday, wife."
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  • I watched him out of the corner of my eye
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  • As he took out a card and read it,
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  • Put it back.
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  • I could tell by the look on his face
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  • It wasn't what he wanted,
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  • He read another card, put it back.
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  • And another.
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  • Finally, he picked up one of those
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  • Kinda corny-looking cards with flowers on the front.
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  • Still didn't look like it was what he wanted.
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  • Probably said something like,
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  • "roses are red, violets are blue," you know.
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  • But he sighed and took it to the checkout counter.
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  • He paid the lady and she put it in a little brown paper sack
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  • And he took it home.
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  • I suppose he scrawled something simple
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  • On the bottom of it like, "love, pete."
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  • And he gave it to her.
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  • But it didn't say what he wanted it to say.
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  • Because it's not always easy to say the things
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  • That really matter, is it?
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  • It's not always easy to say, "i really love you."
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  • Sometimes it's hard to say, "i'm sorry, i was wrong."
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  • Sometimes it's hard to say,
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  • "i acted like a fool yesterday.
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  • Please forgive me."
  • 00:14:10.506 --> 00:14:16.178
  • Sometimes it's hard to say,
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  • "you're the glue that holds my whole world together,
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  • "and if it weren't for you,
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  • I think i would just fall apart."
  • 00:14:21.684 --> 00:14:25.587
  • The things you want to say aren't always easy, are they?
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  • But i think she probably knew.
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  • I think probably by the way he kinda grinned at her
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  • And maybe poked her on the elbow.
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  • I think she probably knew.
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  • Because something about living with somebody for a long time,
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  • Really getting to know them and how they tick
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  • And knowing what goes on inside of their head and their heart,
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  • Some of those things that are so hard to say
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  • Don't have to be said.
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  • You just know.
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  • Love says it.
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  • And i think god tried, all down through history,
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  • To tell us what he wanted us to know.
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  • And he sent his prophets and his teachers,
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  • And they tried.
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  • And we got part of it.
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  • We got the part about god's justice and his law.
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  • We got the part about when we do bad things,
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  • We somehow have to pay.
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  • Oh, but the part that god wanted us to know,
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  • The part that says "i really love you,"
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  • We weren't getting that.
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  • God seemed so far away.
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  • But i think before time began, god knew that would happen,
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  • And he had a plan.
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  • And he said, "i know what i'll do.
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  • "i'll send my love right down there
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  • "where they can see it and touch it.
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  • "and i'll send it as a little, tiny, vulnerable baby.
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  • "so they'll have to touch it.
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  • They'll have to hold it close."
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  • God's love, wrapped in a baby blanket
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  • In our arms.
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  • And my bible says, "the word became flesh
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  • And dwelt among us."
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  • And we beheld his glory,
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  • The glory of the only begotten of the father.
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  • Full of grace and truth.
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  • God's love right where we are.
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  • All: ♪ his love ♪
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  • ♪ went on longing. ♪
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  • ♪ his love ♪
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  • ♪ went on reaching ♪
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  • ♪ right past the shackles ♪
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  • ♪ of my mind. ♪
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  • ♪ and the word of the father ♪
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  • ♪ became mary's little son. ♪
  • 00:17:49.391 --> 00:17:56.798
  • ♪ and his love ♪
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  • ♪ reached all the way ♪
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  • ♪ to where i was. ♪
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  • ♪ reaching, ♪
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  • ♪ longing, ♪
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  • ♪ longing, ♪
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  • ♪ and searching. ♪
  • 00:18:34.403 --> 00:18:45.747
  • - ♪ and the longing, ♪
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  • ♪ and the reaching ♪
  • 00:18:54.289 --> 00:19:00.128
  • ♪ became mary's little son. ♪
  • 00:19:00.128 --> 00:19:10.539
  • All: ♪ and his love ♪
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  • ♪ reached all the way to where ♪
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  • ♪ i ♪
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  • ♪ was. ♪
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  • ♪ ooh. ♪
  • 00:19:44.806 --> 00:20:55.877
  • - and the angels sang on the hillside,
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  • "glory to god in the highest,"
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  • And the song started, and it kept going on.
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  • Writers down through the ages like mendelssohn,
  • 00:21:07.422 --> 00:21:10.892
  • Charles wesley, isaac watts, handel, longfellow,
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  • And even coming down to 1989,
  • 00:21:16.398 --> 00:21:21.370
  • When two writers like buddy greene and mark lowry
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  • Got together and continued that great tradition
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  • In this wonderful christmas classic,
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  • "mary, did you know?"
  • 00:21:31.980 --> 00:21:36.418
  • - ♪ mary, did you know that your baby boy ♪
  • 00:21:40.422 --> 00:21:48.964
  • ♪ would one day walk on water? ♪
  • 00:21:48.964 --> 00:21:53.935
  • ♪ mary, did you know that your baby boy ♪
  • 00:21:53.935 --> 00:22:01.643
  • ♪ would save our sons and daughters? ♪
  • 00:22:01.643 --> 00:22:07.482
  • - ♪ did you know that your baby boy ♪
  • 00:22:07.482 --> 00:22:13.455
  • ♪ has come to make you new? ♪
  • 00:22:13.455 --> 00:22:19.127
  • ♪ this child that you delivered ♪
  • 00:22:19.127 --> 00:22:24.666
  • ♪ will soon deliver you? ♪
  • 00:22:24.666 --> 00:22:30.906
  • - ♪ mary, did you know that your baby boy ♪
  • 00:22:30.906 --> 00:22:38.613
  • ♪ would give sight to the blind man? ♪
  • 00:22:38.613 --> 00:22:43.351
  • ♪ mary, did you know that your baby boy ♪
  • 00:22:43.351 --> 00:22:50.425
  • ♪ would calm the storm with his hand? ♪
  • 00:22:50.425 --> 00:22:55.730
  • - ♪ did you know that your baby boy ♪
  • 00:22:55.730 --> 00:23:03.305
  • ♪ would walk where angels trod? ♪
  • 00:23:03.305 --> 00:23:08.510
  • ♪ and when you've kissed your little baby, ♪
  • 00:23:08.510 --> 00:23:14.516
  • ♪ you have kissed the face of god? ♪
  • 00:23:14.516 --> 00:23:20.489
  • All: ♪ the blind will see, ♪
  • 00:23:20.489 --> 00:23:23.358
  • ♪ the deaf will hear, ♪
  • 00:23:23.358 --> 00:23:26.228
  • ♪ the dead will live again. ♪
  • 00:23:26.228 --> 00:23:32.000
  • ♪ the lame will leap, ♪
  • 00:23:32.000 --> 00:23:34.803
  • ♪ the dumb will speak ♪
  • 00:23:34.803 --> 00:23:37.806
  • ♪ the praises of ♪
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  • ♪ the lamb. ♪
  • 00:23:41.076 --> 00:23:55.056
  • - ♪ mary, did you know that your baby boy ♪
  • 00:23:55.123 --> 00:24:05.367
  • ♪ that he's lord, he's lord of all creation? ♪
  • 00:24:05.367 --> 00:24:11.139
  • ♪ mary, did you know that your baby boy ♪
  • 00:24:11.139 --> 00:24:18.747
  • ♪ would one day rule the nation? ♪
  • 00:24:18.747 --> 00:24:23.985
  • All: ♪ did you know that your baby boy ♪
  • 00:24:23.985 --> 00:24:30.559
  • ♪ is heaven's perfect lamb? ♪
  • 00:24:30.559 --> 00:24:44.039
  • - ♪ and the sleeping child you're holding... ♪
  • 00:24:44.105 --> 00:24:52.047
  • All: ♪ is the great
  • 00:24:52.047 --> 00:24:57.786
  • ♪ i am? ♪
  • 00:24:57.786 --> 00:25:13.768
  • ♪ ♪
  • 00:25:17.038 --> 00:25:24.212
  • - ♪ mary, did you know? ♪
  • 00:25:24.212 --> 00:25:36.257
  • - yes.
  • 00:25:36.324 --> 00:25:39.995
  • All: ♪ and the song goes on, ♪
  • 00:25:43.732 --> 00:25:45.867
  • ♪ and on, and on. ♪
  • 00:25:45.867 --> 00:25:49.771
  • - here we go! all: ♪ and the song goes on. ♪
  • 00:25:49.771 --> 00:25:51.606
  • - ♪ heaven and nature sing. ♪
  • 00:25:51.606 --> 00:25:53.408
  • - ♪ and the song goes on. ♪
  • 00:25:53.408 --> 00:25:54.776
  • - ♪ heaven and nature sing. ♪
  • 00:25:54.776 --> 00:25:56.711
  • - ♪ and the song goes on. ♪
  • 00:25:56.711 --> 00:25:57.946
  • - ♪ heaven and nature sing. ♪
  • 00:25:57.946 --> 00:25:59.881
  • - ♪ and the song goes on. ♪
  • 00:25:59.881 --> 00:26:01.116
  • - ♪ heaven and nature sing. ♪
  • 00:26:01.116 --> 00:26:03.151
  • - ♪ and the song goes on. ♪
  • 00:26:03.151 --> 00:26:04.386
  • - ♪ heaven and nature sing. ♪
  • 00:26:04.386 --> 00:26:06.454
  • - ♪ and the song goes on. ♪
  • 00:26:06.454 --> 00:26:07.722
  • - ♪ heaven and nature sing. ♪
  • 00:26:07.722 --> 00:26:09.591
  • - ♪ and the song goes on. ♪
  • 00:26:09.591 --> 00:26:10.859
  • - ♪ heaven and nature sing. ♪
  • 00:26:10.859 --> 00:26:12.727
  • - ♪ and the song goes on. ♪
  • 00:26:12.727 --> 00:26:14.095
  • - ♪ heaven and nature sing. ♪
  • 00:26:14.095 --> 00:26:16.064
  • - ♪ and the song goes on, ♪
  • 00:26:16.064 --> 00:26:18.133
  • ♪ and on, and on. ♪
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  • [cheers and applause]
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  • All: merry christmas!
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