The other day, eating pad thai and halibut curry with garden peas and cauliflower, this idea:
As part of doing the family musical number on Christmas Eve, I typeset our own sheet music for the first time ever, using the cool free tool GNU Lilypond.
So, without further ado, here is the sheet music, including lyrics and guitar chords, in PDF format and in the Lilypond markup language, in case anyone out there has a use for it.
I should also give credit to Sufjan Stevens for recording the song on a weird kids album from Paper Bag Records and thereby introducing me to it.
I love the lyrics. In the middle of a setting where humans in Rome and Jerusalem were acting like the human-devouring empire-beasts of Daniel’s prophecies, we have beasts of the stable, receiving the (later traditional) gift of speech on Christmas Eve and becoming more humanlike in worship around the newborn Jesus. The Messiah’s birth is the beginning of the New Creation, in which the first creation will eventually be fully redeemed and restored.
This is a couple months old, but still worth posting. Background: “chupa” (lit. “suck”) is the Latin American word used for “pacifier”, and it’s in our family’s vocabulary by way of our friend Terry Tuggy.
And then, out a LONG way from the Earth, is that one planet. It has a RING on it, and it looks like a chupa. That planet is called Chupiter.
—Lily