Opening Dialogue

Silent Night - that means Christmas to some people
 Here comes Santa Claus here comes Santa Claus
 That means Christmas to some people
 A lot of people from different parts of the country and all over the world
 Have different ways of celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ
 The prophets of old had foretold of his comin' for four thousand years
 And a lot of people say that the wise men from the East were probably astronomers
 That may have studied the stars and knew that the new star that was gonna
 Appear in the East the time of it was at hand
 A lot of others of course say that they were told by God
 That the star was about to appear so they could begin their long journey
 From the East and where was the East
 Some people say it could have been India some people speculate
 That one of the wise men came from as far away as Korea all the way across Asia
 And he must have been a comin' for many months maybe
 Maybe even years to get to the place where that new star
 That was to hang over that manger in the town of Bethlehem
 Ten miles from Jerusalem
 Whatever the shepherds came in from the fields
 And you know it's really somethin' that a shepherd would leave his flock
 To come in for anything because that was really about a crime for a man to do
 That was a shepherd to leave his flock of sheep
 And come in for anything because the sheep were man's livelihood
 The milk and the meat and the wool for the clothing
 It really took something for a shepherd to leave a flock
 And there were a lot of 'em that did it and came in to worship
 The new baby Jesus that was born in the manger
 The wise men came bearing gifts of gold frankincense and myrrh
 And they brought them and laid them at the foot of the manger where Jesus lay
 And you know the voice of God so the scriptures say
 According to the scriptures had been silent for four hundred years
 There had not been a divinely inspired prophet for four hundred years
 And all of a sudden you can imagine what kind of night it must have been
 For a new star to suddenly appear out of the heavens
 And shepherds to leave their flock and men
 Wealthy lookin' strangers come in from the East
 And all of a sudden on top of all that for a heavenly choir to start to singin'
 Singin' voices from Heaven, singing words that they understood
 Words like peace on Earth goodwill to men, what a night it must have been