It's Birthday Time for Jesus
Listen to the Song
To purchase sheet music for this song please contact Sherri Boekweg at sherriboekwegmusic@gmail.com.
Purchase Sheet Music
To purchase sheet music for this song please contact Sherri Boekweg at sherriboekwegmusic@gmail.com.
Song Lyrics
It's Birthday Time for Jesus
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.
.