Intro: Nirva Ready
Mmm-hmm-mmm
Joy to the world
Let Heaven and nature sing
Let Heaven and nature…
Verse 1: TobyMac, Nirva Ready, TobyMac & Nirva Ready
Now Jonnie’s never got his wish on December 25th (Mmm-hmm)
That’s what he said when we left the orphanage
Nine years old but Jonnie was an old soul
Gonna spend his first Christmas in a real home (In a real home)
Showed me a picture that he drew the night before
Was a picture of a man standin’ outside a door
He said, “I see him in my dreams
He comforts me when I can’t sleep” (Mmm-mmm-mmm-hmm)
Chorus 1: Nirva Ready
Father of the fatherless
Be with your sons and daughters
This Christmas
This Christmas
Verse 2: TobyMac, Nirva Ready, TobyMac & Nirva Ready
“Believe in angels?” Jonnie asked me starin’ at the sky (At the sky)
I said, “I do,” I saw a sparkle in his eye (In his eye)
Big brother for the weekend, respondin’ to the season
Took the chance that givin’s better than receivin’ (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
Two nights, a new family, some holiday cheer (Holiday cheer)
We laughed and sang, came on a midnight clear (Came on a midnight clear)
We gave, received, and as we headed to a close
We looked to the Heavens and it started to snow down blessings
Chorus 1: Nirva Ready & TobyMac
Father of the fatherless
Be with your sons and daughters
This Christmas
You ain’t livin’ ’til you choose to give
This Christmas
The love and joy and peace to one o’ His
Chorus 2: Nirva Ready & TobyMac
Woah-oh-oh, Father, let us not forget
The children who are all alone
This Christmas
You ain’t livin’ ’til you choose to give
This Christmas
You ain’t livin’ ’til you choose to give
Interlude: Moses, Marlee, Leo and Judah McKeehan, truDog
Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this:
(Chihuahua, Chihuahua, Chihuahua, Chihuahua, Chihuahua)
To look after orphans and widows in their distress
(Chihuahua, Chihuahua, Chihuahua, Chihuahua, Chihuahua)
Merry Christmas, everyone
(Chihua—)
Bridge: Nirva Ready
Joy to the world
The Lord is come
Let Heaven and nature sing
Let Heaven and nature sing
Let Heaven and nature sing
Let Heaven and nature sing
Verse 3: TobyMac, Nirva Ready, TobyMac & Nirva Ready
“Believe in angels?” Jonnie asked me starin’ at the sky
I said, “I do,” I saw a sparkle in his eye
Nine years old but Jonnie was an old soul
Gonna spend his next Christmas in a real home (In a real home)
Chorus 1: Nirva Ready & TobyMac
Father of the fatherless
Be with your sons and daughters
This Christmas
You ain’t livin’ ’til you choose to give
This Christmas
The love and joy and peace to one o’ His
Chorus 2: Nirva Ready & TobyMac
And, Father, let us not forget
The children who are all alone
This Christmas
You ain’t livin’ ’til you choose to give
This Christmas
You ain’t livin’ ’til you choose to give
Chorus 1: Nirva Ready
Father of the fatherless (Father of the fatherless)
Be with your sons and daughters
This Christmas
(Let Heaven and nature sing)
This Christmas
(Let Heaven and nature sing)