{"id":22959,"date":"2014-12-09T07:07:42","date_gmt":"2014-12-09T15:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=22959"},"modified":"2014-12-09T11:02:13","modified_gmt":"2014-12-09T19:02:13","slug":"watch-bahamas-perform-the-bands-christmas-must-be-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2014-12\/watch-bahamas-perform-the-bands-christmas-must-be-tonight\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Bahamas Perform The Band&#8217;s &#8220;Christmas Must Be Tonight&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Band-Islands-cover-art1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-22964\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Band-Islands-cover-art1-600x600.jpg\" alt=\"The-Band-Islands-cover-art1\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Band-Islands-cover-art1-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Band-Islands-cover-art1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Band-Islands-cover-art1-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Band-Islands-cover-art1.jpg 605w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s that time of year.\u00a0 Leave it to the great Canadian <strong>Bahamas<\/strong> to cover one of our favorite Christmas songs, <strong>The Band&#8217;s<\/strong> <em><strong>Christmas Must Be Tonight<\/strong><\/em>, which was best featured on <strong>The Band&#8217;s<\/strong> last studio album, <em><strong>Islands<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 <strong>Afie Jurvanen<\/strong> is one of the greats, and he, band and backing vocal-angels give a glistening reading of the song below.\u00a0 After, listen to the <strong>Robbie Robertson<\/strong>-penned original, with the dynamic <strong>Rick Danko<\/strong> convincingly delivering and former Anglican-church organist <strong>Garth Hudson<\/strong> augmenting so well from behind the organ keys.\u00a0 Sublime.\u00a0 The song&#8217;s lyrics follow the videos.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/47vRaiiSu5k\" width=\"625\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/t8cwDqsqN2Q\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Come down to the manger, see the little stranger<br \/>\nWrapped in swaddling. Lo! the Prince of Peace<br \/>\nWheels start turning, torches start burning<br \/>\nAnd the old wise men journey from the East<\/p>\n<p>CHORUS:<br \/>\nHow a little baby boy bring the people so much joy<br \/>\nSon of a carpenter, Mary carried the light<br \/>\nThis must be Christmas, must be tonight<\/p>\n<p>A shepherd on a hillside, where over my flock I bide<br \/>\nOn a cold winter night a band of angels sing<br \/>\nIn a dream I heard a voice saying \u201cfear not, come rejoice<br \/>\nIt\u2019s the end of the beginning, praise the new born king\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I saw it with my own eyes, written up in the skies<br \/>\nBut why a simple herdsman such as I<br \/>\nAnd then it came to pass, he was born at last<br \/>\nRight below the star that shines on high&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s that time of year.\u00a0 Leave it to the great Canadian Bahamas to cover one of our favorite Christmas songs, The Band&#8217;s Christmas Must Be Tonight, which was best featured on The Band&#8217;s last studio album, Islands.\u00a0 Afie Jurvanen is one of the greats, and he, band and backing vocal-angels give a glistening reading of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22959"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22971,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22959\/revisions\/22971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}