Christmas On The Block ©Alan Mann '83 [rip '88] by permission Mann family.
2012- Larry Saklad, featuring Kenn Kweder blues-harp, Kim De Meo bu vocal
**newly remixed/mastered for ’12, which opened doors last year @ WXPN Helen Leicht, WSTW Mark Rogers, WCHE/WBZH Charlie Sylvestri, Dan Herman and Michael Tearson, more & online. Recording some new guitar traks and special attention to drum & bass, sibilance & sweetening are all fresh ear candy!~ LS

There's a streetlight that sits above the night
and it shines it's gray light on the midnight air
and the houses twinkle on the block
but there's one house that shines a special way out there

It's Christmas in the city
and the trees are lighted pretty
but the prettiest Christmas tree of all,
They can see all the colors that we cannot
and theirs' is the most beautiful Christmas on the Block

Though they cannot see the light of day
and their night is forever the fact still remains
In this world of confusion there is peace
There is hope in despair sometimes the beauty is a beast

And they cannot see the lightning
and they cannot see the thunder
But they know what no-one understands
The beauty is a blessing, love is all we got
And theirs' is the most beautiful
Christmas on the Block

In the darkest corner of the night
only dreams illuminate their eyes
They can see all the colors that we cannot
And theirs' is the most beautiful
Christmas on the Block

The cannot see the lightning
and they cannot see the thunder
but they know what no-one understands
The beauty is a blessing, love is all we got
And theirs' is the most beautiful
Christmas on the Block