Frohe Weihnachten

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Was hat wohl der Esel gedacht
in der heiligen Nacht,
als er plötzlich die Fremden sah im Stall?
Vielleicht hat er Mitleid verspürt,
hat das Bild ihn gerührt,
und er rückte zur Seite sehr sozial.
Vielleicht aber packte ihn die Empörung,
Welch eine nächtliche Ruhestörung!
Kaum schlafe ich Esel mal ein,
schon kommen hier Leute herein.

My favourite Christmas song (although nobody outside of our family seems to know it.) (It´s about the donkey on Christmas night. Very funny, too.)
This one, too:

Es kommt ein Schiff geladen bis an sein höchsten Bord
trägt Gottes Sohn voll Gnaden, des Vaters ewig Wort.

That´s an older one, full of ship metaphors, but very beautiful.



I had a wonderful Christmas: First we had sausages and potato salad and onions, then we sang in the kitchen for a long time until somebody mentioned that maybe we should go into the living room, with the Christmas tree and everything? Where we sang again. We have soprano, alto and two basses, it sounds great.
My brother liked the "Max et Mauritius" I gave him - Max and Moritz in Latin ^^
And I must have been a very nice girl.
And the mass today was great, mama played organ, little brother violin, me recorder, the choir sang and it was beautiful.
(More later, because now there´s dinner and then we go to the theater and did I mention that I love Christmas and my family?)