What’s that there shining up ahead?
Is that one strand thrown across a hedge?
It’s hard to see so let’s get closer
Yesiree them there those are Bob Dylan’s Christmas lights
Ho so bright to see hope hung haphazardly
What’s up and down like the year we’ve seen?
(Bob Dylan’s Christmas Lights)
What’s red blue purple gold and green?
(Bob Dylan’s Christmas Lights)
Bob Dylan’s Christmas lights
Ho so bright to see hope hung haphazardly
Sure he could of done it better. Sure he could have done more
But there’s a whole year of intention in his extension cord
What’s that there shining up ahead?
(A single strand… across a hedge)
What’s up and down like the year we’ve seen?
(Bob’s Christmas lights! Red, gold and green)
And what give us hope thru our winter nights?
(Bob’s Christmas lights! Bob’s Christmas lights!)
Bob Dylan’s Christmas lights
Ho so bright to see hope hung haphazardly
I’m gonna hang my lights like Bobby
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Behind The Song...
Bob Dylan's Christmas Lights
Since 2015 or so I have been made aware of and have been following the yearly ups and downs of Bob Dylan's Christmas lights thanks to the journalistic writings of Merrill Markoe of Vice. Hysterical and poignant I found the coverage, much like I find most things that touch me. So having sworn to never write another Christmas song, this one trampled on my roof one fall and down the chimney it came!