Hello Rogier 
Thank you so much for your heartwarming post with the kind words, the beautiful festive song and the hug 
Great to know that you still enjoy your musical journey so much.
Your posts and contributions are always a highlight for me.
Have a wonderful festive season full of cheer, fun, love and music 
My very best wishes for you and your wife 
Christmassy greetings
Gunhild 
This was lovely, hope you and yours also have wonderful holidays, Rogier.
Hi Deborah @GrumpyMac that was Quickly noticed of you 
, there is always one who sees your mistakes 
Thank you very much 
Jasmine @Avalon426
very kind words, thank you ā¦ 
Yes and the more hours pass the more we find out that I was using my phone as a decent storage bank for more than I can record nowā¦ this weekend or just after Iāll start again with a clean slate, with cloud yes yes with cloudā¦
I sit with a big smile and full of gratitude after readingā¦ 
HĆ© Gunhild @Gunhild Havenāt seen you in a while (very quickly and gone again) ,very nice for dropping by thank you very much ,and what an very very sweet words, if you write them down like this then you will probably know what it means to me, but Iāll say it anyway
Christmassy( ) greetings
Hi Constance @ConstanceClaire How nice of you to drop by ,thank you very much , next year I expect nothing less than a fingerstyle Christmas song from you 
ā¦ or the year after that or maybe after that ā¦ if you continue as it is, that shouldnāt be a problem 
Thank you all
What a morning, I hope you all realize that this gives me extra energy to get through the dark days with a cheerful feeling, and strengthens the connections and now with a winter storm howling through the garden, this gives off a lot of warmthā¦ 
also thank you for just reading and leaving good vibes on the first post 
Australian christmas sounds very attractive now
Thanks Rogier for sharing it once moreā¦it was very sweetly played and a most enjoyable Christmas treat for my ears 
I wish I could be there to see the expression on your wifeās face when you showed her the nativity scene you made for herā¦ah, how much holy patience! 
Hello Rogier
Thank you so much for your very kind response. You always find such friendly and heartwarming words
You are right, Iām surely not one of the most active contributors here 
I guess Iām more of a listener and reader than a talker and frequent poster.
But Iām sneaking around here a lot and still love and enjoy this community as much as I did on the very first day.
And thanks to the continued kindness and motivation from all these great members here, I still enjoy playing and practising a lot 
ā¦ haha, even though Iām still in Grade 3 
Wishing you and your wife a very merry cheerful and musical Christmas time
Hi Silvia @Silvia80
Thank you very much and for dropping by
Itās quite amazing how our brain fills in such things and even without words everyone sees a nativity scene in itā¦ I canāt stop grinning about it
Hi Gunhild @Gunhild
Thank you
Very nice to read and nice that you take this opportunity to say something , those are the moments that matter the most ā¦ Good that you continue to play and grade 3 is a very big and important one that I did to fast but now still staying/playing/learning there on a regular basis
Thank you
Dear Rogier!
Thank you for your lovely Christmas wishes! Iām sending out my best wishes to you and your lovely wife 
! A big virtual hug for being such a nice and thoughtful community member. Without you, this wouldnāt be the same place 
.
You inspired me with your electric version of āSilent Nightā and I decided to give it a go. Still a work in progress, but I wanted to pick up your invitation to contribute to this thread! I posted the video in my log, as Deborah opened a second christmas thread and I didnāt want to select one (so I leave my link here and in Deborahās thread).
Hi Andrea,
How sweet to see you here and I was just visiting you while I was going through my notification from top to bottomā¦
Your words mean a lot and everything where you want to post/post is of course perfectā¦I sometimes say something subtly ( yes sometimes )and then hardly anyone picks up on it and some just donāt want it for various reasonsā¦itās all goodā¦no pressure/choice stressā¦thereās already enough of that when weāre looking for our next guitar 
and what strikes me is your modesty about your song ā¦it is goodā¦hear the few versions that can be heard here, yours is really a top one to listen toā¦
O which I forgot to tell you ā¦those rolling chords are quite nice too 
All the best and,that there are literally dark and silent nights, clear days and that the energy comes back 
Thanks you
Rogier, thanks again for your kind words. I picked your thread up as an invitation and somewhat expected, a few more people would do so.
Thanks for the compliments on my Silent Night. Not really sure about āa top oneā . But still a bit time for polishing and then the song will stay in my ālifetime repertoireā, so will probably get better over the years.
Thanks for the feedback for the rolling chords, good to read that the ārollingā is coming through,
I hope we spend lots of future christmas seasons together here in this community and are able to share our progress on this one when we are real old dogs 
!
Thanks for all the good wishes, Iāll give them back to you !
I apologized to Rogier in PM cause I had doubt whether it was an invitation or not
my bad 
-Translating from Dutch to English like this doesnāt make a number of things sound so niceā¦ Unfortunately not a cheerful Christmas song but given the current situations I feel the itch,
I just heard this live on Radio 2 and wanted to share it (I donāt have the live performance )ā¦ maybe something for you Brian ( @brianlarsen (or am I missing the nail here? )
It grabbed me by the throat and I wasnāt sure where to post, my LL might have been better but that sometimes seems like a black hole
and next year I will see this again
Lyrics:
near the path behind the church, where the wild blackberries grow, there is a stone like so many others, without date, without name, the story has never been forgotten, he lies there forever, a lost, silent boy, barely twenty years old
he had danced, he had been drinking, he was talking in a bar with the girl from the shop when someone asked him do you dare to fight for freedom, are you a coward or a man and still reeling from whiskey he signed up
tell mom weāre going to win, tell her things will go well, that when I come back for Christmas, sheāll make me spaghetti, twenty-eight thousand boys were waved goodbye that night by the ministers and the hitters and the traffickers in hate
one morning just before Christmas the enemy came very close it was a little pale boy and just as scared as he no one knows what they were thinking but they shot at each other with tears in their eyes and barely twenty years old
in the silence a blackbird sang, in the hills the lost dead sons lay next to each other like brothers
they loved a plate of spaghetti and the same music in their hands the guns from the same factory
At the path behind the church where the wild blackberries grow, there is a stone like so many others, without date, without name
Happy holidays
Haha, Iām probably the last person who needs to see this. Itās for anyone who believes military violence is the solution to any problem 
Nice song though, and thanks for providing the English lyrics. I was able to understand the Dutch singing whilst reading them 
What a cool small guitar. Classical neck on the body of a uke! 
(Made me go and re-listen to the gold standard)
Rogier
Superb performance of a superb song. Good singing, good playing, good lyrics. Powerful and moving.
Brian
Well, because the song is an indictment and is about the madness of the politicians and the sadness of war ā¦ thatās why I thought of you 
and the kind of song and sadness within that you might appreciateā¦ 
I was watching this live at a distance from my computer and that ukulele sounds beautiful 
Greetings 
( hey look,the sun ā¦seen 1 afternoon of sun in the last 14 days, only in the 50s it was darkly cloudy for longer 
)
Edit:
Hi other Brian 
Yes he does ,and is a popular singer in the āmore seriousā genre, I like it a lot (but not all)
Greetings
I never heard this before, a sad and powerful song indeed, and unfortunately fitting the times we live in.
Itās a guitalele 
Yes indeed Rogier a sad and powerful song that will Iām afraid continue to be sung for as long as the human race inhabits this earth. We will never change or learn to accept each others differences.
Hi Els @LadyOfTheCastle
Aaa yes that was it`s name ā¦ and yes also to Gordon @sairfingers
We as humans have the annoying habit of not learning from a large number of things and making the same mistakes over and over again, often driven by things that we do not discuss here and greed 
Merry Christmas 
There are so many Christmas threads around here, so I decided to pick just one of them to add my wishes for a joyous, harmonious, peaceful and happy Christmas time.
May all of you find many guitar and music related presents under the Christmas tree 
Happy Holidays Nicole!
