Like The First Time It's Christmas Lyrics

Your childhood, it was stolen
By sad and troubled times
Belfast was crying
For some star to shine
It wasn't much like Christmas
When peace was nowhere near
But now a star is shining
And hope is in the air

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Like the first time, it's Christmas time,
I feel it in the breeze
All over Ireland, they're singing for peace
Like the first time, it's Christmas time,
Standing by your side
Singing with the children, "Silent Night".

I hear the small birds singing
In the bushes of Tyrone
The piper in the Derry Air
No longer plays alone
Go tell it on the mountain
That sweeps down to the sea
All I want for Christmas
Is a land of love and peace

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I know your darling, Marie,
She never will return
And the young lads in the showband
No longer sing their song
But all the ones so near and dear
Who fill you with delight
Will gently join our chorus
And sing with us tonight

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Like the first time it’s Christmas time