Here’s a song to open your advent calendar by: “The Christmasy Blues,” music and lyrics by Irene Vipersdottir Jerving, age 5. There’s some good advice in here, so listen up.
‘The Christmasy Blues”
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The song is from a forthcoming CD to be titled Christmasy, as recorded by the two-person band (me and her) that she calls The Reds and the Blues. The entire run of the CD will be 1 copy, which she plans to give to our upstairs neighbors for Christmas.
December 18, 2009 at 4:07 pm
Irene you rock! You have a promising future
Merry Christmas
Janice
December 19, 2009 at 4:48 pm
This is absolutely hysterical! Irene is something else, and we miss her very, very, very much here in Maryland! I am sure she has been a very good girl this year, so that she will not be dealing with rocks and coal on Christmas! Love to all the Hanlon/Jerving clan, and very best wishes for a wonderful Christmas.
Anne
December 22, 2009 at 11:50 pm
But Irene, a newly self-styled rock hound, WANTS coal and rocks for Christmas. She’s worried that if she’s bad, Santa will bring her toys and candy.
December 23, 2009 at 5:50 pm
This is pure rock and roll genius. She’s already got that growl.
“otherwise he’ll think you’re a really demanding kid…” Excellent.
We told Otis that the modern version of coal is petrified dog turds, since I don’t know where the heck we’d get coal in a pinch.
December 23, 2009 at 8:34 pm
Hey Irene,
Call me ‘good’ from now on! Way to jam.
December 24, 2009 at 11:41 am
This is awsome. When does the album get released?
December 25, 2009 at 12:17 am
This is SO great! I’m chuckling as I listen – don’t want to LOL b/c I want to hear it all! I can’t wait for my kids to hear it.
December 25, 2009 at 4:56 pm
Irene that was awesome-happy Christmas to you! That was inspiring and it makes me want to call you.
PS – my sister Libby loved getting a ukulele from Santa.
April 16, 2010 at 2:50 pm
Coming late to the ball. But this rocks. Nicholas loved it and was happy to hear his old friend!