WE'LL DRESS THE HOUSE
(Alfred Shaddick Burt / Wihla Hutson - 1954)

Voices of Jimmy Joyce - 1963
Lex de Azevedo & Millennium Choir - 1999
Springbrook Singers - 2001

Also recorded by: Christine Hitt


We'll dress the house with holly bright and sprigs of mistletoe
We'll trim the Christmas tree tonight and set the lights aglow
We'll wrap our gifts with ribbons gay and give them out on Christmas
Day
By everything we do and say, our gladness we will show

We'll dress the table daintily, our finest treasures use
That all a-sparkle it may be and bright with lovely hews
Then for the feasting we'll prepare a kitchen full of wondrous fare
That each from all the dishes rare, his fav'rite one may choose

And ye who would the Christ child greet, your heart also adorn
That it may be a dwelling meet for Him who now is born
Let all unlovely things give place to souls bedecked with heavenly
grace,
That ye may view His holy face with joy on Christmas morn

We'll dress the house with holly bright and sprigs of mistletoe
We'll trim the Christmas tree tonight and set the lights aglow
We'll wrap our gifts with ribbons gay and give them out on Christmas
Day
By everything we do and say, our gladness we will show