No Worship: The Christmas Vigil

The progressive Christian songwriter, William Flanders, generously shares this and other progressive hymns for our use. 

“Sing Me a Carol”

Sing me a carol, a Christmas time song.

Sing one that’s easy to hum, I’ll follow along.

Choose your own story, but angels and shepherds bring good cheer

Sing me a carol, one for a tired year.

Sing me a carol, one for a tired year.

Sing me a carol, some warmth in the cold.

Find a new way, then, to tell what’s always been told.

But touch on the baby, sentiment plays a subtle trick.

Sing me a carol, one for a heretic.

Sing me a carol, one for a heretic.

Put Christ back in Christmas, the stickers declare.

I’d rather we let him alone to be anywhere.

Maybe in churches, maybe anew in Palestine.

Sing me a carol, one for a troubled time.

Sing me a carol, one for a troubled time.