It’s Birthday Time for Jesus – Sherri Boekweg Music

It's Birthday Time for Jesus

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To purchase sheet music for this song please contact Sherri Boekweg at sherriboekwegmusic@gmail.com.

Song Lyrics

It's Birthday Time for Jesus

You don't need to have a tree to have Christmas

And you don't need a wreath on your door.

There doesn't have to be any Santa

Or all the fancy gifts from the store.

There doesn't have to be any presents

Or stockings or lights on the tree.

For Christmas is more than a party.

It's birthday time for Jesus, you see.

If the world could give a present to Jesus

Then everyone would have a friend.

And nobody would ever be lonely

And peace would be on earth once again.

And nobody would have to go hungry

For sharing would come naturally,

And we'd all know the reason for Christmas.

It's birthday time for Jesus, you see.

It's all about the child in the manger.

It's all about the life that he lived.

That's why we sing the carols of Christmas

And why it is the season to give.

So when you gather round with your family

The best celebration will be

When Christmas is more than a party.

It's birthday time for Jesus, you see.

So remember the reason for Christmas.

It's birthday time for Jesus, you see.

The Story Behind the Song

This is the first Christmas song written primarily for my young daughters, Jennifer and Jessica, to sing. I wrote the melody and first verse one day, and then I forgot about it. It would have been left unfinished had I not come across it a year later while going through some music I had stored. I revised and finished it and my daughters enjoyed singing and performing it. The message is an important one. You don’t need all the Christmas things to have Christmas, because that’s not what it is all about. It is the time we celebrate the birth of Jesus. The second verse suggests that the gift the world could best give to Jesus would be to love and care for each other and to remember him at Christmas time. Then a few years later I added the third verse when I had my Shine Show Choir perform this song.