Bravo Choir members, your performance at our Remembrance Day assembly was beautiful. Merci 🙂
We have now begun learning new repertoire for Christmas. Our plan is to visit Ayre Manor in December to share our singing with the residents there. Please check the blog for upcoming dates, as we have more plans in the works for December!
One Christmas favourite of the Poirier Choir is the song, One Little Candle. Several students have asked for the lyrics, so here they are:
One little candle burning bright. One little gleam of radiant light
Shimmering softly in the night, makes the darkness fade away
One little song that’s freely sung. One little bit of good that’s done
Brightens the world for everyone, like a candle’s golden ray
(Chorus) Keep your light, shining bright, like a torch of hope held high
Let it glow, let it show, keep the flame of love alive,
One little smile for someone new. One little word of kindness, too
Kindles the friendship flame anew, soon the loneliness is gone
One little candle flame when shared, spreads through the darkness everywhere
Reflecting in hearts of those who care, and they pass the light along. (Chorus)
Here is a version from Youtube:
I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas
(Spoken:) Not a lion, not a tiger, not a bear or a kangaroo
Not a donkey, not a monkey, no, they would never do!
I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
Only a hippopotamus will do
I don’t want a doll, no dinky Tinkertoy
I want a hippopotamus to play with and enjoy
I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
I don’t think Santa Claus will mind, do you?
He won’t have to use our dirty chimney flue
Just bring him through the front door
That’s the easy thing to do
I can see me now on Christmas morning
Creeping down the stairs
Oh, what joy and what surprise
When I open up my eyes
To see my hippo hero standing there
I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
Only a hippopotamus will do
No crocodiles, no rhinoceroses
I only like hippopotamuses
And hippopotamuses like me too!
(Spoken): Not a tortoise, not a porpoise, and a zebra would never do
Not an eagle, or a beagle, just one thing at the zoo!
I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
Only a hippopotamus will do
Mom says the hippo would eat me up but then,
Teacher says a hippo is a vegetarian
I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
I don’t think Santa Claus would mind, do you?
Oh there’s room for him in our two car garage
I’d feed him there and wash him there
And give him his massage
I can see me now on Christmas morning
Creeping down the stairs
Oh, what joy and what surprise
When I open up my eyes
To see my hippo hero standing there
I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
Only a hippopotamus will do
No crocodiles, or rhinoceros-es-es
I only like hippopotamus-es-es
And hippopotamuses – No, not rhinoceroses –
Yes, hippopotamuses like me, too!
It’s true!
** Location Change ** (The singalong is no longer at the Community Hall)
The Sooke Community Choir has put out an invitation to the community to join in a Christmas Kick-Off Singalong at Holy Trinity Church – 1962 Murray Road on Sunday, December 6th, at 3:00 pm. Families are welcome to come out and sing calls with the choir! I hope that many Poirier families of our choir members will be able to JOIN IN!
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