I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day
Posted: December 20th, 2007 | Author: Andrew Branch | Filed under: A Song A Week, Family, Music | Tags: acoustic, Christmas music, Hallelujah, I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day, Leonard Cohen | 4 Comments »Well, looking at our calendar we realized we wouldn’t have any time to record our song before next week if we didn’t do it tonight. And I’ll be darned if I don’t meet my goal of a song a week, so that’s what we did. This was a quick recording so it’s rough, but I’m pretty happy with how it turned out. I love my wife’s simple voice. So perfect for a folk hymn like this one.
Of note with this version of the classic Christmas song: since we adapted the words to the melody of Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah, the five original versus didn’t quite work. I did some searching online and found a really old version of the poem that had a 6th verse, so we threw it in.
