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Joan Baez - The Little Drummer Boy [HD]+

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Channel: Gary Larson · 2017 · People & Blogs

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Joan Baez sings 'The Little Drummer Boy' from her 1966 Vanguard album 'Noel'. The lyrics are in the video and listed below along with a note on the video and some notes on the song from Wikipedia.

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Note: This is a complete redo of the earlier video with this song. Many images were added or improved and the display of the images and lyrics changed. The WAV version of the song file was used for best audio.

"The Little Drummer Boy" (originally known as "Carol of the Drum") is a popular Christmas song written by the American classical music composer and teacher Katherine Kennicott Davis in 1941. First recorded in 1951 by the Trapp Family Singers, the song was further popularized by a 1958 recording by the Harry Simeone Chorale; the Simeone version was re-released successfully for several years and the song has been recorded many times since. In the lyrics the singer relates how, as a poor young boy, he was summoned by the Magi to the Nativity of Jesus. Without a gift for the infant the little drummer boy played his drum with Jesus' mother, Mary's approval; recalling, "I played my best for Him" and "He smiled at me."


The Little Drummer Boy

Singer - Joan Baez

Come, they told me ... a newborn King to see
Our finest gifts we bring ... to lay before the King
Rum pum pum pum, rum pum pum pum
So to honor Him ... when we come

Little Baby ... I am a poor boy too
I have no gift to bring ... that's fit to give our King
Rum pum pum pum, rum pum pum pum
Shall I play for you ... on my drum?

Mary nodded ... the ox and lamb kept time
I played my drum for Him ... I played my best for Him
Rum pum pum pum, rum pum pum pum

Then He smiled at me
Me and my drum
Me and my drum

Songwriters: Harry Simeone, Katherine Kennicott Davis, Henry Onorati 

© Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.

[Lyrics from LyricFind]

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