by Noël Regney & Gloria Shayne Baker
I heard this first as a kid,* listening to radio in my bed, after I was supposed to be asleep. The idea of forbidden news making it all the way to the king’s ears is appealing. I have now sung this with several choirs, reinforcing the original sense of spreading earth-shaking good news.
—Larry Esposito
*“Do You Hear What I Hear?” was written in October 1962 as a plea for peace during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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