Merry Christmas everyone. At the time I composed this next song, which was about 1978, people compared the color of their skin.
Merry Christmas everyone. At the time I composed this next song, which was about 1978, people compared the color of their skin.
When I was very young I never noticed their color. Everyone looked the same to me. That is what made me compose this song.
What Color is Christmas?
What color is Christmas? No one seems to know.
I’ll tell you the colors of the ones I know.
Christmas is white, Christmas is blue, what does Christmas means to you?
It’s a time of endless colors, a time when all man honors, the new born child.
Christmas is green in Hawai‘i, where all people sing merrily,
Together the brown and the yellow, black and white all sing ‘Silent Night.’
What color is Christmas, what color is Christmas in everybody’s sight?
Most people say it’s a white Christmas, but really, what color is Christmas?
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Larry Rivera has been an entertainer and song writer on Kaua‘i for more than six decades, and shares the stories behind his songs in “Lyrics of Aloha,” appearing once a month in the Sunday edition of The Garden Island. Win prizes and earn an entry in the Vacations Hawai‘i Vegas vacation for two drawing by listening to KONG radio the following Monday and Tuesday between 6 and 8 a.m. and taking part in a contest based on the column.
