Tune: No Place Like Home For the Holidays
Lots of better places than home
for the holidays
Maybe best to stay far away and roam
If you usually have a hard time there
on holidays
Think twice before you call that place your ‘home.’
2)Sure everyone deserves a home but media
Have snuck schmaltz in where reality should be
Nobody’s home’s a picture perfect [...]

This is the hem of my red dress and the holly decorations I fastened to my green rubber shoes with two-sided tape for the last Christmas push. I wore them to lead the singing of my peace & justice carols down at city hall on Friday, the day before Christmas Eve.
On [...]

Tune: Silver Bells
City Sidewalks, Busy Sidewalks
Been replaced by the mall
Where the parking’s just awful and ba-ad
Fights will break out
Cops are called out
O the mall is the place
Where corporations all strut their stuff!
O their malls
They appall
Nothing about them says Christmas
Only ding-a-lings bring
Themselves to shop there today
2) If you must shop
Then you should shop
Craft shows, church bazares
Where [...]

Tune: Have A Holly Jolly Christmas
O the Grinch has joined our Christmas
Just like Frosty, Rudoph, Scrooge
Characters from TV specials
Ah, the cast is getting huge
Homer Simpson’s in the lineup
Wearing Santa’s hat with glee
Christmas is more confusing now
From the way it used to be
O ho the media
Got ahold of you & me
It’s those animated specials
Hoggine my TV
2) [...]

O come all ye fearful
Fretful about Christmas
O come ye
O come ye
To reason once again
Come and behold them
All the TV specials
That say it isn’t presents
Or everything just perfect
But who you are and what you do
That mak-kes the day
2)O Sing a little bet-ter
Christmas isn’t madness
All stressed out and chewing out
Your loved ones around
Your TV has nailed it
Calm [...]

Tune: Joy To The World
What is the source of Christmas stress?
Why must things be this way?
It’s from the media, modeling
Illusory enobling
That we must get it right
No room for Christmas blight
Till your nerves and my nerves
Are strung too tight!
V2 No more let Christmas stress abound
Nor sorrow fill the air
We do the best we can
A holiday to [...]

Twelve Steps Song
(Google this tune on youtube – very singable)
Tune: Dwelling In Beulah Land (Old Gospel)
1) I admit I can’t control
The life I have been living
But a Higher Power exists
To take my life in hand.
Admitting I am helpless here,
I look for strength to go on.
As the universe unfolds,
I learn to stand.
CHORUS I’ve living every day [...]

Tune: I wish you a merry Christmas
I wish for a sober Christmas
God grant me a sober Christmas
And courage at Christmas
To change what I can
Serenity at Christmas
Accepting what can’t change
And wisdom for seeing
Just which one is which
V2 I’m working the program
The program is working
Today I am sober
All I have is today
v3 The past years of Christmas
Have [...]

Tune: I’ll Be Home For Christmas
I want peace for Christmas
No more wartoys sold
hungry fed
For each a bed
Homeless in from the cold
Christmas Eve I’m asking
For Peace to start with me
Let it spread throughout the world
And to eternity!

Tune: White Christmas
I’m dreaming of a just Christmas
Something I’ve never known before
Where the poor have voices
And many choices
Not homeless, cold & hungry anymore
I’m dreaming of a just Christmas
While doing all I can to help
Till a dawn breaks when our world’s come right
And Christmas for us ALL is shining bright!