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Christmas in The Country

By Gaither Vocal Band

2,230 views Sep 29, 2026 updated Christmas Gaither Vocal Band Style album Verified editorial review

Song Meaning

Gaither Vocal Band spends most of this song on ordinary domestic detail — fudge and apples in the kitchen, bubble lights flickering on the tree, children whispering secrets — before the real turn arrives in the third verse: 'the laughter stops as Dad picks up the Bible, it falls from habit open to Luke chapter 2.' The nativity story isn't introduced as a separate, more serious topic; it's presented as something so worn into this family's Christmas that the book falls open to it on its own.

Reading Luke's shepherds-in-the-field account aloud inside a scene about a farmhouse Christmas collapses the distance between the original story and this particular family's living room. 'Of how God loved us once and loves us still' reaches for John 3:16's claim that God so loved the world that he gave his son — treated here not as a one-time historical fact but as a love that's still active in the room where it's being read aloud, generation after generation, in someone's 'well-worn voice.'

Lyrics Verified by Editorial Team

Oh there is nothing quite 
like christmas in the country 
The simple joy of family by the fire  
And carols ringing out across the valley 
From neighbours that make up the village choir  .

Oh, the joy of Christmas in the country 
The love and warmth and gentle memories 
And knowing that the simple old love story 
Is waiting in the country country just for me.  .

The smell of fudge and apples from the kitchen 
The bubble lights that flicker on the tree 
The wispered sounds of secrets from the children 
Embrace and call back home the likes of me  .

There is nothing quite 
like christmas in the country 
When the silent snow is falling on the barn 
And the children press there noses to the window 
As winter turn to magic the old farm  .

That's the joy of Christmas in the country 
The love and warmth and gentle memories 
And knowing that the simple old love story 
Is waiting in the country country just for me  .

The loughter stops as Dad picks up the Bible 
It falls from habit open to Luke chapter 2 
And none of us will ever tire of hearing 
Wow children here is how God came to you  .

"There were in that same country shepherds watching 
The flocks at night upon a lonely hill ..." 
And with his well-worn voice he tells the story 
Of how God loved us once and loves us still  .

Oh, the joy of Christmas in the country 
The love and warmth and gentle memories 
And knowing that the simple old love story 
Is waiting in the country country just for me. 
is waiting in the country just for me

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