The lyrics tell the apocryphal story of a poor young boy who, unable to afford a gift for the infant Jesus, plays his drum for the newborn with the Virgin Mary’s approval. Miraculously, the baby, although a newborn, seems to understand and smiles at the boy in gratitude.
Rankin Bass animation of THE LITTLE DRUMMER BOY.avi in its entirety here.
Frank Rich, New York TimesTHE dead at Fort Hood had not even been laid to rest when their massacre became yet another political battle cry for the self-proclaimed patriots of the American right. Frank Rich Their verdict was unambiguous: Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, an American-born psychiatrist of Palestinian parentage who sent e-mail to a radical imam, was a ter […]