December 5, 2024

 

Our 5th Yule Calendar surprise continues with the food theme (after yesterday's saffron buns): it's a mouth-watering Yule song!

This is a new Yule song I have written for the Brandy Badgers, our berry-loving kinship band. It conveys my simple wish for Yule: good food – in good company, of course!

All I Want For Yule is...

 

You ask; what do I wish
For Yule, my dear love.
You ask; what would I want
To receive.
To get into my heart
My love, you need
To bring just one thing:
That’s food.

Halfling I am
I do love food.
All the year around
On Yule too.
So listen up, my love
And heed my wish:
All that I want is food.

–clarinet melody

Bring pie, thick with cream
And berries too.
Bring me cakes, cinnamon buns
Biscuits too.
Please bring me toads-in-the-hole,
Pastries in bowls.
That is all what I want
For Yule.

I want plums, figs and fruit
So juicy sweet.
Candy canes, chewy treats
Sugared pears.
Heaps of fudge, mountains of sweets
All just for me.
Oh that’s all what I want for Yule.

I am just a simple lass
With simple needs.
So all I ask of you
Is food.
That is the right way
Into my heart.
I think that’s the way
Into yours.
All I want is food


So do come, join me
For the feast you brought.
Let us share it all
Biscuits too!
For that is the way
Into our hearts.
Food, that’s all what we want for Yule.

My love, that’s all we…
We want
FOOD!

 

This song is best sung to the melody of Amazing Grace (you can already start howling over the bagpipes, if you are loud enough...).

Celtic Woman - Amazing Grace