Legendary Liz Kennedy "Lizzy's Christmas Sleigh" – Beautiful new Holiday Music Video For All

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“This song is a true story.  As true as a 6-year-old can remember a pivotal event, years and years later.  At the very least, I believed in Santa so much that I hallucinated a sleigh sailing across the moon from atop my father’s shoulders on Meriday Lane, 2 blocks from my house. I know the exact spot.  And it may be the first time in my life that I suspected not everyone believed me, on my return home.  So be it.  But the vision of that sleigh informs my subsequent belief that the magic of holidays exists somewhere in all of us grown children. I saw that sleigh.  I did.” – Liz Kennedy

 

LYRICS:

“LIZZY’S CHRISTMAS SLEIGH”

Liz Kennedy

Yes, I’m not a kid

And no, can’t be young again

Yet at yuletide

I go back in time

To when I saw the sleigh

I did

Maybe only children see

And when those carols start to sing

On the street or some big store

I behold that sleigh once more

Here’s the story

Once

I was hoisted high

It was Christmas eve

We ducked outside

Underneath the sky

Dad at 6 foot three

That’s high

Look up, Lizzy, I heard him say

And I could see a sleigh

We headed home, Dad and me

And everyone, they were all singing

Chorus

Deck the Halls

We Three Kings

Hark the Herald Angels Sing

Chestnuts Roasting

And Christmas White

Oh Holy Night

The Costco Chorus sings on high

Jingle Bells and Silent Night

Interlude 1

I saw that sleigh

And it sailed across the moon

On its way

And that moon so big it fell down to earth

I almost touched the sleigh

As the years go by

Family far and wide

Do I decorate

Must I bake

Hang the sleigh that Ben once made

Or I’ll fly out to St. Paul

With Sammy’s new in-laws

And I’ll bring along Ben’s sleigh

And we’ll sing those songs all day

Then walk through snow outside

And let Winston look up in the sky

And we’ll sing

Chorus

Deck the Halls

We Three Kings

Hark the Herald Angels Sing

Chestnuts Roasting

And Christmas White

Oh Holy Night

The Costco Chorus sings on high

Jingle Bells and Silent Night

Interlude 2

Can you see the sleigh

When the songs play

Did you the sleigh

Sailing across the moon

On its way

And those song can take you far away

Can you see the sleigh

After going through a whirlwind of life changes, the San Francisco based singer-songwriter, Liz Kennedy, has come to see songwriting not as a choice but something she has to do. She says music sustains her and offers a way forward. Her decade plus as a critically acclaimed recording artist has brought her confidence in her ever-unfolding identity as a quirky, often humorous and ever insightful storyteller committed to honesty and finding something unique to say.

Jaffe, whose credits include Maria Muldaur, Lenny Williams and Magic Christian, is the renowned engineer and producer of Studio D in Sausalito, where legendary artists like Bonnie Raitt, Ringo Starr and Carlos Santana have recorded. One of the greatest influences on Kennedy’s development since she took the plunge into recording, he has helmed all her previous recordings, Clean White Shirt, A Good Peach, Nothing Like an Angel, Speed Bump, and Hike Up Your Socks. Jaffe adds numerous string textures to Kennedy’s songs, including acoustic and electric guitar, dobro, mandolin, lap steel and ebow.

Kennedy describes herself as honest and observant and adds, “I sure hope I can easily laugh at myself.” Her songcraft – where the lyrics always follow the music – perfectly reflects that thoughtful self-assessment. The fascinating part of the process is not knowing just where the inspiration will come from. “It’s strange how emotional pain and joy can equally send you racing to the piano to capture something … whether it’s a butterfly or a heavy brick.

After graduating from Stanford University, where she studied anthropology and journalism, she settled in the Bay Area and worked for film companies that made TV commercials. Long before reality TV became a mainstream part of our culture, Kennedy specialized in casting real people (instead of professional actors) for commercials. She also married and raised two children. In her later 40s, around the time she began realizing she had “songs in my head” that had never been recorded, she met Jaffe, who liked what he heard and encouraged her to take her work as a singer/songwriter more seriously. In addition to her growing catalog of recordings, she has performed over the years at such renowned Bay Area hotspots as Sweetwater Music Hall, the Throckmorton Theatre and Club Fox. Kennedy enjoys performing live in an intimate setting and finding a connection people make to her songs. I love to hear what someone gets from a song, in their own way. A good song should translate into another person’s language. Yet before performing there is recording. “I’ve had inexpressibly sublime moments in the studio, listening to what these great musicians bring to my songs,” she says. “I have literally fallen to my knees with the joy of an unexpectedly beautiful touch. There’s no greater moment for me than when we are all listening to the finished product and loving what we hear, experiencing our collective ownership.”

A MUST FOR YOUR HOLIDAY PLAYLIST!

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