Jack & Jill Politics

Happy holidays, y’all! Posting will be light during the holidays until the first week of January. I hope you enjoy the pause that refreshes.

One of my favorite Christmas songs is the Stevie Wonder classic “Someday at Christmas“, (listen) later recorded by the Jackson 5 and more recently by Mary J. Blige. “Someday at Christmas” was originally written in 1967 and references the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights Movement. It’s a bit hopeful, I know. But hope is what we need when the words to this song seem so appropriate 40 years later. Let me share it with you (Feel free to swap in your favorite holiday for “Christmas” if you don’t celebrate it):

Someday at Christmas men won’t be boys
Playing with bombs like kids play with toys
One warm December our hearts will see
A world where men are free

Someday at Christmas there’ll be no wars
When we have learned what Christmas is for
When we have found what life’s really worth
There’ll be peace on earth

Someday all our dreams will come to be
Someday in a world where men are free
Maybe not in time for you and me
But someday at Christmastime

Someday at Christmas we’ll see a Man
No hungry children, no empty hand
One happy morning people will share
Our world where people care

Someday at Christmas there’ll be no tears
All men are equal and no men have fears
One shining moment my heart ran away
From our world today

Someday all our dreams will come to be
Someday in a world where men are free
Maybe not in time for you and me
But someday at Christmastime

Someday at Christmas man will not fail
Take hope because your love will prevail
Someday a new world that we can start
With hope in every heart

Someday all our dreams will come to be
Someday in a world where men are free
Maybe not in time for you and me
But someday at Christmastime
Someday at Christmastime