Sunday Night at the Concert

So as i mentioned the other day, I had a ticket to the Oak Ridge boys Christmas Concert, on Sunday night. The concert was absolutely fantastic, although the venue hosting the concert was way unorganized.

The performance of Topeka Performing Arts Center was very lack luster, but should not distract from the performance of the Boys. They opened the doors at 6:30 pm as scheduled, but for 30 minutes the several thousand who held tickets was compacted into the small hallway outside the theater. While the doors was kept tightly closed, as more patrons were crammed into that small hallway that surrounds the theater. Handicapped, elderly, those who had been on their feet all day at work all day and everyone else were forced to stand for 30 minutes in those very tight quarters and not allowed to get even near their seats.

Once inside the concert was absolutely fantastic. Starting with several of their popular classics, such as "Elvira." After a 20 minute intermission, they came back to sing a number of Christmas songs and was certainly the first time I was wished a Merry Christmas this year.

One of my favorite Oak Ridge Boys songs, is one that isn't on any of their current albums. "(They called her) Christmas Carol" is a song about a very unique woman that everyone called her Christmas Carol.

Like a fixture down on Main Street, she stood there all year round
With a tin cup and tamborine, singin' Christmas songs
Folks thought she was crazy but they loved to hear her sing
Drop some money in her cup and she'd shake that tamborine

And they called her 'Christmas Carol'
There's not a Christmas song she couldn't sing
I remember Christmas Carol
With her snow white hair and a beat up tamborine

She wore that same old ragged coat all the year around
Lived all alone in a little shack just outside of town
She'd stand there singin' 'Jingle Bells' in the heat of the summertime
Yes, everyday was Christmas in Carol Johnson's mind

And they called her 'Christmas Carol'
There's not a Christmas song she couldn't sing
I remember Christmas Carol
With her snow white hair and a beat up tamborine

But I can still remember that twinkle in her eye
'Cause Carol kept a secret from the people passin' by
That secret was a mystery they talked about so long
How each Christmas Eve those gifts showed up
Outside the children's homes

That was 40 years agos, or 50, I believe
And still the toys keep showin' up each year on Christmas Eve
I wonder if we'll ever know just who took the cause
Is it still Christmas Carol or is it Santa Clause?

And they called her 'Christmas Carol'
There's not a Christmas song she couldn't sing
I remember Christmas Carol
With her snow white hair and a beat up tamborine


- Oak Ridge Boys

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