Songs of home

Last year living in Luxembourg was difficult during the Christmas season, especially when there are so many Chrsitmas songs that talk about home. These songs have a new meaning for me now that I'm back in the States. Included in the list of beautiful Christmas songs about home is the "Fratenizers' Hymn" from the movie Joyeux Noel. I know this is an unusally long blog for me, but I've listed three songs below.

1. Christmas Lullaby
   by Amy Grant and Chris Eaton
   
   Are you far
   Away from home
   This dark and lonely night?
   Tell me what best would help
   To ease your mind.
   Someone to give
   Direction for
   This unfamiliar road?
   Or one who says, "Follow me
   And I will lead you home."
   
   How beautiful
   How precious
   The Savior of all
   To love so completely
   The loneliest soul.
   How gently
   How tenderly
   He says to one and all,
   "Child, you can follow Me,
   And I will lead you home.
   Trust Me and follow Me,
   And I will lead you home."
   
   Be near me,
   Lord Jesus,
   I ask Thee to stay
   Close by me forever
   And love me I pray.
   Bless all the
   Dear children
   In Thy tender care,
   And take us to heaven
   To live with Thee there.
   Take us to heaven
   To live with Thee there.
   
   
   
2. Tender Tennessee Christmas
   by Amy Grant and Gary Chapman
   
   Come on weather man,
   Give us a forecast snowy white.
   Can't you hear the prayers
   Of every childlike heart tonight?
   Rockies are callin',
   Denver snow fallin'
   Somebody said it's four feet deep,
   But it doesn't matter
   Give me the laughter,
   I'm gonna choose to keep
   
   Another tender Tennessee Christmas,
   The only Chirstmas for me,
   Where the love circles around us
   Like the gifts around our tree.
   Well I know there's more snow up in Colorado
   Than my roof will ever see,
   But a tender Tennessee Christmas
   Is the only Christmas for me.
   
   
   
3. Hymne des Fraternises
   (I’m Dreaming of Home)
   
   I hear the mountain birds
   The sound of rivers singing
   A song I’ve often heard
   It flows through me now
   So clear and so loud
   I stand where I am
   And forever
   I’m dreaming of home
   I feel so alone
   I’m dreaming of home
   
   It’s carried in the air
   The breeze of early morning
   I see the land so fair
   My heart opens wide
   There’s sadness inside
   I stand where I am
   And forever
   I’m dreaming of home
   I feel so alone
   I’m dreaming of home
   
   This is no foreign sky
   I see no foreign light
   But far away am I
   From some peaceful land
   I’m longing to stand
   A hand in my hand
   Forever
   I’m dreaming of home
   I feel so alone
   I’m dreaming of home