To wish you a very Merry Christmas and a happy holiday season, we’ve brought together some of your favorite country music stars to read the classic holiday poem, ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas (Version 2)
Feel free to follow along with the poem…
Keith Urban:
Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
In hopes that St Nicholas soon would be there.
Carrie Underwood:
The children were nestled all snug in their beds,
While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads.
And mamma in her ?kerchief, and I in my cap,
Had just settled down for a long winter’s nap
Kimberly from Little Big Town:
When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter,
I sprang from the bed to see what was the matter.
TJ Osborne from Brothers Osborne:
Away to the window I flew like a flash,
Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash.
John Osborne from Brothers Osborne:
The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow
Gave the lustre of mid-day to objects below.
Tae from Maddie & Tae:
When, what to my wondering eyes should appear,
But a miniature sleigh, and eight tinny reindeer.
Jimi from Little Big Town:
With a little old driver, so lively and quick,
I knew in a moment it must be St Nick.
Lauren Alaina:
More rapid than eagles his reindeer they came,
And he whistled, and shouted, and called them by name!
“Now Dasher! now, Dancer! now, Prancer and Vixen!
On, Comet! On, Cupid! On Donner and Blitzen!”
Caylee Hammack:
To the top of the porch! to the top of the wall!
Now dash away! Dash away! Dash away all!?
Dierks Bentley:
So up to the house-top the reindeer they flew,
With the sleigh full of Toys, and St Nicholas too
Darius Rucker:
And then, in a twinkling, I heard on the roof
The prancing and pawing of each little hoof.
As I drew in my head, and was turning around,
Down the chimney St Nicholas came with a bound.
Jordan Davis:
He was dressed all in fur, from his head to his foot,
And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot.
Maddie from Maddie & Tae:
A bundle of Toys he had flung on his back,
And he looked like a peddler, just opening his pack.
Karen from Little Big Town:
His eyes-how they twinkled! his dimples how merry!
His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry!
Jon Pardi:
His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow,
And the beard of his chin was as white as the snow.
The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth,
And the smoke it encircled his head like a wreath.
Brandon Lay:
He had a broad face and a little round belly,
That shook when he laughed, like a bowlful of jelly!
He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf,
And I laughed when I saw him, in spite of myself!
Phillip from Little Big Town:
A wink of his eye and a twist of his head,
Soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread.
Luke Bryan:
He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work,
And filled all the stockings, then turned with a jerk.
And laying his finger aside of his nose,
And giving a nod, up the chimney he rose!
He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle,
And away they all flew like the down of a thistle.
Alan Jackson:
But I heard him exclaim, as he drove out of sight,
“Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good-night!”
