CHRISTMAS TIME IN TEXAS

synthesized demo

Yes, Freddy Fender wrote a Christmas song! This lively arrangement is for unison or two-part choir with a piano accompaniment just a bit in the button-accordion style famous in Tejano music. This is a Texas song, so I’m pretty sure a Texas middle-school choir would be most interested. It could also work for a high school or adult choir that needed a short, learn-in-30-minutes-piece to add to their Winter Concert. The lyrics mentions the towns of Laredo, San Antonio, Amarillo, El Paso, Midland and Odessa, and there’s an optional verse where students can make up lyrics about their own towns, and even substitute lyrics in languages that are spoken in their towns. Add guitar and bass on the written-in chord changes, and accordion (or another melody instrument) on Part I for even more fun.