Words & Ideas presents

The First Drafts of Christmas

An interactive glimpse into the magic and mystery of inspiration.

Please choose from any of these three songs to experience the spark of creativity in its embryonic stage:

Christmas treeChristmas Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire
DreidlChanukah I Have a Little Dreidel
Holiday LightsGenericSleigh Ride

THE CHRISTMAS SONG


Chestnuts roasting on an open fire

Jack Frost

Yuletide carols being sung by a choir

And folks dressed up

Everybody knows a turkey

Helps to make the season bright

tots with their eyes all aglow

Will find it hard to sleep tonight



They know that Santa's on his way

He's loaded

And every mother is gonna spy

To see if reindeer really



And so I'm offering this simple phrase

To kids

Although it's been said many times, many ways

to you.

The Chanukah Song


I have a little dreidel

I made it out of clay

And when it’s dry and ready

I’ll



Oh, dreidel, dreidel, dreidel

I

And when you’re dry and ready

The Generic Holiday Song


Just hear those sleigh bells jingling, ring-ting-tingling, too.

Come on, it's lovely weather

Outside the snow is falling and friends are calling,

Come on, it's lovely weather



Giddy-yap, giddy-yap, giddy-yap, let's go,

Let's look at the show

We're riding

Giddy-yap, giddy-yap, giddy-yap, it's grand,

Just holding your

We're gliding along with a song of a wintery fairyland.



Our cheeks are nice and rosy and are we.

We're snuggled up together

Let's take that road before us and .

Come on, it's lovely weather for a sleigh ride together with you.



There's a happy feelng nothing in the world can buy,

When they pass and the pumpkin pie.

It'll nearly be like from Currier and Ives.

These wonderful things are the things we remember all through our lives!



Just hear those sleigh bells jingling,

Come on, it's lovely weather for a sleigh ride together with you.

Outside the snow is falling and friends are calling, “Yoo-hoo!"

Come on, it's lovely weather