The Three Kings and I (What Really Happened)

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Trans-Siberian Orchestra (TSO) is an American progressive rock band founded in 1993 by producer, composer, and lyricist Paul O'Neill, who brought together Jon Oliva and Al Pitrelli (both members of Savatage) and keyboardist and co-producer Robert Kinkel to form the core of the creative team. Since then, TSO has sold more than 9 million concert tickets and over 8 million albums. The band's musical style incorporates classical, orchestral, symphonic, and progressive elements into hard rock and heavy metal. The band has released a series of rock operas: Christmas Eve and Other Stories, The Christmas Attic, Beethoven's Last Night, The Lost Christmas Eve (the final installment of their Christmas trilogy), and their two-disc Night Castle. Trans-Siberian Orchestra i… more »

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1998

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O Holy night
The stars are brightly shining
It is the night of our dear savior's birth 

Now you all heard the story about Bethlehem
How the child was born and the three wise men
Heard the preacher tell it like the preacher does
But let me tell you, children, 
That's not how it was 

Now you might ask me what I'm talking about
But I know the part that they all left out, yes I do

Now do you hear what I said
That Herod wanted those wise men dead
But on that blessed evening
My great great great great great great granddad
He saved those kings 

Now granddad made his living 
Playing jazz you see
But jazz wasn't big around one A.D.
So he got himself a job in the palace band
Where he heard about three kings 
In the desert sand 

Let me tell you children that at any time
Three kings in the desert that's a real rare find, yes it is

But Herod heard of it too
And when he heard his curiosity grew
So he asked those kings to drop by
And my great great great great great great granddad
He wondered why

So the Magi told old Herod 
That they had come here
To find a newborn king of kings 
Who'd heal our sins
Then herod told his guards 
To follow those Magi
And that the only king around here 
Was gonna be him

Then he told his soldiers as I recall
When they found that child, to kill them all
But granddad overheard what Herod said
And he had to act fast or else they'd all be dead, yes they would

So granddad got to those kings
Filled them in on the plan, told them everything
When they heard what he had in store
They grabbed the gold, the frankincense
The myrrh, the jewels, the desert tents
And when they found his plan was sound
They followed granddad out the back door, yes they did
They follow them down

And what a night
It must have been
But when God is on your side
You gotta know that in the end 
You're gonna win

They traveled fast
They traveled far
And in the end they found 
That they were standing with the child beneath the star

Hallelujah
Hallelujah (Hallelujah)
Hallelujah
Hallelujah (Hallelujah)
Hallelujah (Hallelujah)
Hallelujah

so you see we've reached the end of our story
When granddad and the kings reached that stable on the hill
And while I said that three kings in the desert is a rare sight
Angels singing in the desert that's far rarer still

Now I ain't sayin' that the bible was wrong
But ya see the whole tale 
Would have taken too long
'Cause way back then in the promised land
Every copy they sold, 
It had to be written by hand, oh by hand

And granddad lived a long life
Stayed friends with those kings 
And found a good wife
eventually I came along
But that my children
That my children
That's another song

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