TWO PACIFIC NORTHWEST CAROLS
Genre: Choral, SATB, secular themes
Words & Music by Bronwyn Edwards Cryer
and Florence Clayton

DESCRIPTION
Two songs to celebrate the Christmas season in the Pacific Northwest. The first is titled "Christmas Boats," written about the flotilla of brightly-lit boats that accompanies Seattle's Christmas Ship, broadcasting music from regional Seattle choirs to delighted listeners nearby on shore and aboard boats. The second is titled "Christmas on the Beach" (words by Florence Clayton) describing Christmas Day spent rugged up on a beautiful Pacific Northwest beach.

Christmas Boats - SATB (sheet music at link above)

Alternative version - SSAA (sheet music):
Christmas Boats - SSAA - music

Alternative recording (listen): Christmas Boats -SSAA performed by Holy Names Academy, December 2009

Christmas on the Beach

Experience the Pacific Northwest at Christmas with the exquisite harmonies of "Christmas Boats" and the tight polyphonal voices of "Christmas on the Beach." Both pieces will delight and surprise audiences during the Holiday season.

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LYRICS

CHRISTMAS BOATS (by Bronwyn Edwards Cryer)
Christmas boats are floating gently on silent waves; lights ablaze, festive faces rejoice with carols on Christmas boats (Angels from the realms of glory...)
Colored lights that shimmer softly on tranquil lakes; music makes harmony of song and sea on Christmas boats (Deck the halls with boughs of holly...)
Night wraps its cloak around them; voices fill the cold night air
Shimmering lights reflecting from Christmas boats (O come all ye faithful...)
Light dances all around them (Hark the herald angels sing)
Celebration flowing from Christmas boats (O little town of Bethlehem)
Christmas boats are floating... Christmas boats afloat.

CHRISTMAS ON THE BEACH (by Florence Clayton)
Bitter cold, whistling wind, it's Christmas on the beach. Brilliant sunshine, gleaming sand where the frosty sand and waters meet
Christmas, there is Christmas).
Heavy hoarfrost on the shore, it's Christmas on the beach.
And the birds make their small tracks not silently.
We can listen in the wind for their faint and scratchy sounds like pencils on paper, where is Christmas?
Splashing waves, shining foam, rising spray, shooting high
Flooding scenes of changing colors, flashing colors on the beach.
Christmas, there is Christmas.
We are warmed by winter clothes as we walk along the shore.
Christmas sounds seldom heard on a Northwest seashore.
Crunching sand under our feet like a crisp white winter snow.
A clear and sparling Christmas day, but bitter cold... This is Christmas!

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