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A Christmas Song

With Children's Performance [2:37]

“A Christmas Song” is a modern song written and composed by Paolo Amelio, an Italian teacher of music in a Primary School in Milan, expressly written for children. “A Christmas Song” is one of the songs he composed for feast days and events of the scholar year, with the aim of increasing the joyful participation and personal experience of the great event of the incarnation of God in children. The catching tune and the simple words of this song makes it easy to remember, to sing together in class or in children performances, or as an accompanying melody in teaching children to sing, paint or build up a living Christmas Crib, as in the video.

The video was produced with children aged from 4 to 7 years, in Milan (Italy).

The Italian Song and its English Translation

La stella in cielo già fa capolino
per annunciare con gli angeli l’evento:
la grotta si prepari e del bambino
conforto sia la paglia di frumento.

Finché un canto piano piano
s’ode da lontano verso le città.
Qui giunge festoso e bello:
è nato un bambinello per l’umanità.

Buoni e cattivi attendono davvero,
non sanno ancora che l’umile Maria
e che il suo sposo han detto “così sia”
al piano del celeste messaggero.

Finché un canto piano piano
s’ode da lontano v...

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