Here's to a Christmas song, number 2

I shall from now until Christmas, occasionally post the Youtube video and lyrics to a Christmas song that I like. The songs will hopefully be ones with which you are not overly familiar, and ones that will you give you something to think about or something to smile about, or both.

Here is Jill Phillips singing Andrew Peterson's Labor of Love.


Labor of Love

It was not a silent night
There was blood on the ground
You could hear a woman cry
In the alleyways that night
On the streets of David's town
And the stable was not clean
And the cobblestones were cold
And little Mary full of grace
With the tears upon her face
Had no mother's hand to hold
It was a labor of pain
It was a cold sky above
But for the girl on the ground in the dark
With every beat of her beautiful heart
It was a labor of love
Noble Joseph at her side
Callused hands and weary eyes
There were no midwives to be found
In the streets of David's town
In the middle of the night
So he held her and he prayed
Shafts of moonlight on his face
But the baby in her womb
He was the maker of the moon
He was the Author of the faith
That could make the mountains move
It was a labor of pain
It was a cold sky above
But for the girl on the ground in the dark
With every beat of her beautiful heart
It was a labor of love
For little Mary full of grace
With the tears upon her face
It was a labor of love

You may have noticed that the last Christmas on Youtube video I posted was also from Andrew Peterson's Behold The Lamb Tour. You can see the rest of the videos from this amazing Christmas concert here:
http://andrew-peterson.blogspot.com/2007_11_01_archive.html
You can download the cd (which I highly recommend) here:
http://www.rabbitroom.com/
And you can check out Andrew's official site here:http://www.andrew-peterson.com/