Holy night, the stars are brightly shining It is the night of our dear Savior's birth Now you all heard the story about Abelaham How the child was born and the three wise men Heard the preacher tell it like the preacher does But let me tell you children, that's not how it was Now you might ask me what I'm talking about But I know the part that they all loved Yes I do Now do you hear what I say That Herod wanted those wise men dead But on that blessed evening My great-great-great-great-great-granddad He saved those kings Now granddad made his living playing jazz you see But jazz wasn't big around 180 So he got himself a job in the palace back where He heard about free kings in the desert sand But let me tell you children, that's not how it was Free kings in the desert, that's a real rare find Yes it is But Herod heard of it too And when he heard his curiosity grew So he asked those kings to come on And my great-great-great-great-great-granddad He wondered why So the mage I told old Herod that they had come here To find a newborn king of kings who'd heal our sins Then old Herod told his guards to follow those mages And that the only king around here was gonna be him Then the tallest soldier says I'll recall When they found a jar to kill them all So granddad overheard what Herod said And then they had to act fast or else they'd all be dead Yes they would So granddad got to those kings Killed them in on the plan, told them everything When they heard what he had in store The gods were cold, the brains obsessed The murder took the desert in And all his plan was down They followed granddad out the back door Yes they did They followed granddad Oh what a night It must have been But when God is on your side You gotta know that in the end you're gonna win They travel fast, they travel far But in the end they found that they were standing With the jar beneath the star Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Yeah So you see, we've reached the end of our story When Granddad and the kings reached that stable on the hill And while I said that three kings in the desert's a rare sight Angels singing in the desert, that's far rarer still Now I ain't saying that the Bible was wrong But you see, the whole tale's gonna take you too long Cause way back then in the promised land Every copy they sold had to be written by hand Oh by hand Granddad lived a long life Stayed friends with those kings and found a good wife Eventually I came along But that's my children, that's my children, that's Another song Thank you for watching!