"Colorado Christmas"

"Colorado Christmas" written by Steve Goodman ~
Looking out the window of this Hollywood hotel
You'd never know that this was Christmas Eve
The billboards and the neon took the place of silver bells
And the temperature is 84 degrees
I remember Christmases when I was just a boy
In the morning I would run to see the tree
And the carolers on the hillside sang their songs of Christmas joy
Well, I always thought they sang them just for me
Now all along the Rockies you can feel it in the air
From Telluride to Boulder down below
Now, the closest thing to heaven on this planet anywhere
Is a quiet Christmas morning in the Colorado snow ...................

I've been trying to come up with a link for “Colorado Christmas” by Steve Goodman. And, my link is pretty tenuous methinks :-) Anyway, it is just after midnight here in Aylesbury so it is now Christmas Eve. My photo from 2010 was definitely NOT taken in Colorado :-) but, there is some snow. Steve's song mentions 'Christmas Eve' and 'snow' so that is two links for the price of one methinks :-)

Steve wrote the song for the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. The first link is to Steve's version where he is accompanied by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. The second link is the NGDB version from their 1997 Christmas album cleverly called “The Christmas Album” :-)

Added to ~ Sight and Sound

♫ ♪ ♪ ♫ Listen here ~ Colorado Christmas ~ Steve Goodman accompanied by The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

And, here ~
♫ ♪ ♪ ♫ ~ Colorado Christmas ~ Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

p.s. It took me a while to realise that the NGDB sing the lines in a slightly different order :-)