The Priests feat. Shane MacGowan - Little Drummer Boy/Peace On Earth

Thank you, my friend Maj William W. 'Bill' Price for posting the music video of The Priests featuring Shane MacGowan performing Little Drummer Boy, followed by Spancil Hill from November 2009.

"Little Drummer Boy" composed by Katherine K. Davis, Henry Onorati and Harry Simeone in 1958.
Lyrics
Come they told me
Pa rum pum pum pum
A new born King to see,
Pa rum pum pum pum
Our finest gifts we bring
Pa rum pum pum pum
To lay before the King
Pa rum pum pum pum
Rum pum pum pum
Rum pum pum pum
So to honor Him
Pa rum pum pum pum,
When we come.

Little Baby
Pa rum pum pum pum
I am a poor boy too,
Pa rum pum pum pum
I have no gift to bring
Pa rum pum pum pum
That's fit to give our King
Pa rum pum pum pum
Rum pum pum pum
Rum pum pum pum
Shall I play for you!
Pa rum pum pum
On my drum.

Mary nodded
Pa rum pum pum pum
The ox and lamb kept time
Pa rum pum pum pum
I played my drum for Him
Pa rum pum pum
I played my best for Him
Pa rum pum pum pum
Rum pum pum pum
Rum pum pum pum
Then He smiled at me
Pa rum pum pum pum
Me and my drum."

Spancil Hill
Lyrics
"Last night as I lay dreaming of pleasant days gone by
My mind being bent on rambling to Ireland I did fly
I stepped on board a vision and I followed with the wind
And I shortly came to anchor at the cross of Spancil Hill

It being the 23rd June the day before the fair
When lreland's sons and daughters in crowds assembled there
The young and the old, the brave and the bold their journey to fulfill
There were jovial conversations at the fair of Spancil Hill

I went to see my neighbors to hear what they might say
The old ones were all dead and gone and the young one's turning grey
I met with the tailor Quigley, he's a bould as ever still
Sure he used to make my britches when I lived in Spancil Hill

I paid a flying visit to my first and only love
She's as white as any lily and as gentle as a dove
She threw her arms around me saying "Johnny I love you still
" Oh she's Ned the farmers daughter and the flower of Spancil HiII

I dreamt I held and kissed her as in the days of yore
She said, "Johnny you're only joking like many's the time before"
The cock he crew in the morning he crew both loud and shrill
And I awoke in California, many miles from Spancil Hill."

FYI COL Mikel J. Burroughs LTC Stephen C. SFC William Farrell SSgt Robert Marx TSgt Joe C. SGT John " Mac " McConnell Maj Marty Hogan PO1 William "Chip" Nagel SP5 Robert Ruck SCPO Morris Ramsey SPC Margaret Higgins SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL LTC Wayne Brandon LTC Bill Koski Maj Bill Smith, Ph.D. MSG Andrew WhiteMSgt Jason McClish AN Christopher Crayne SPC Tom DeSmet

Very nice share!

Great pick tonight Bill - thank you.