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Originally Posted by carnation
Over the last 15 years of this thread, people have mentioned disliking "Little Drummer Boy". While I like the song itself, what bothers me is the playing the drum for a newborn who probably wants to sleep! The year the thread started, I had a baby and all I could think of when I heard the song was, "Doooon't wake up that baby!"
With Jesus being a baby boy (I swear that boys are all such light sleepers), I keep picturing Mary's mental reaction when the drummer boy asks if he can play for them.
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Oh yeah. Meanwhile, I always have to suppress a chuckle (or an eye roll, or both) when I get to "The cattle are lowing, the poor baby wakes/But little Lord Jesus, no crying he makes” in "Away in a Manger." I find the no crying part
very hard to believe.