Released: November 17, 2003
Songwriter: Chris Eaton Nick Trevisick
Come rest you weary gentlemen
Let nothing you dismay
Lay down your swords and fight no more
For the sake of Christmas Day
A saviour came down to this earth
To show us everyone
How to live in harmony
Together under the sun
Beyond the dark horizon
Lies a far more bountiful land
Void of all starvation
For every woman and man
So reach out from the wilderness
And pray to heaven above
A future lies in wait for us
A world united in love
We don't need a merry Christmas
We don't need a Happy New Year
The only wish on Santa's list
Is that one day there will be
Peace on this earth
Through the valleys
Over the hills
Church bells echo their sound
Whispers travelling through the trees
Over the snow covered ground
Spread the message far and wide
So every one can hear
Home fires glow on angel wings
And banishes every tear
We don't need a merry Christmas
We don't need a Happy New Year
The only wish on Santa's list
Is that one day there will be
Peace on this earth
Grant us.. One wish
No more.. Pain or sorrow
Hear us.. Help us
Build a new tommorrow
So reach out from the wilderness
And pray to heaven above
A future lies in wait for us
A world united in love
We don't need a merry Christmas
We don't need a Happy New Year
The only wish on Santa's list
Is that one day there will be
No more tears or pain at Christmas
No more children living in fear
The only wish on Santa's list
Is that one day there will be
One day there will be
One day there will be
Peace on this earth
Grant us.. Our wish this Christmas
Let nothing you dismay
Lay down your swords and fight no more
For the sake of Christmas Day
A saviour came down to this earth
To show us everyone
How to live in harmony
Together under the sun
Beyond the dark horizon
Lies a far more bountiful land
Void of all starvation
For every woman and man
So reach out from the wilderness
And pray to heaven above
A future lies in wait for us
A world united in love
We don't need a merry Christmas
We don't need a Happy New Year
The only wish on Santa's list
Is that one day there will be
Peace on this earth
Through the valleys
Over the hills
Church bells echo their sound
Whispers travelling through the trees
Over the snow covered ground
Spread the message far and wide
So every one can hear
Home fires glow on angel wings
And banishes every tear
We don't need a merry Christmas
We don't need a Happy New Year
The only wish on Santa's list
Is that one day there will be
Peace on this earth
Grant us.. One wish
No more.. Pain or sorrow
Hear us.. Help us
Build a new tommorrow
So reach out from the wilderness
And pray to heaven above
A future lies in wait for us
A world united in love
We don't need a merry Christmas
We don't need a Happy New Year
The only wish on Santa's list
Is that one day there will be
No more tears or pain at Christmas
No more children living in fear
The only wish on Santa's list
Is that one day there will be
One day there will be
One day there will be
Peace on this earth
Grant us.. Our wish this Christmas
more tracks from the album
Cliff at Christmas
- The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas to You)
- Come to Us
- When a Child Is Born
- Let It Snow
- Christmas Is Quiet
- Mary’s Boy Child
- Walking in the Air
- Mistletoe & Wine
- Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
- Little Town
- Santa’s List
- The Millennium Prayer
- Saviour’s Day
- We Should Be Together
- Silent Night
- White Christmas
- Winter Wonderland
From the album
- Cliff at Christmas (2003)
Cliff Richard popular songs
- Congratulations
- Devil Woman
- Visions
- We Don’t Talk Anymore
- Ocean Deep
- Shine, Jesus, Shine
- Constantly
- Mistletoe & Wine
- Spider Man
- Power to All Our Friends
- With A Girl Like You
- Ich träume deine träume
- Daddy’s Home
- Every Face Tells a Story (It Never Tells a Lie)
- Little Bitty Pretty One
- Blueberry Hill
- I Wish We’d All Been Ready
- In the Country
- When the Girl in Your Arms Is the Girl in Your Heart
- Better Than I Know Myself
- All I Ask of You
- Peace in Our Time
- Thief in the Night
- Shout