Honolulu Boy Choir (Honolulu Boy Choir performing Caroling, Caroling)   Caroling, caroling now we go Christmas bells  are ringing Caroling, caroling through the snow   Christmas bells are ringing Joyous voices sweet  and clear Sing the sad of heart to cheer Ding,   dong, ding, dong Christmas bells are ringing  Caroling, caroling through the town Christmas   bells are ringing Caroling, caroling up and down  Christmas bells are ringing Mark ye well the song   we sing Gladsome tidings now we bring Ding, dong,  ding, dong Christmas bells are ringing Caroling,   caroling, near and far; Christmas bells are  ringing.

Following, following yonder star,   Christmas bells are ringing.

Sing we  all this happy morn: "Lo, the King of   Heav'n is born!"

Ding, dong, ding,  dong!

Christmas bells are ringing.

Charlotte Simmons: The time of year doesn't matter, it's what is in   our hearts that does.

This year, the staff of Pau  Hana Years brings you a little bit of Christmas   with the Honolulu Boy Choir and Charles Peck.

Charles Peck  This Christmas season in the islands is like  no other place, but like everywhere else,   there is love at Christmas.

We express this  love as we celebrate Christmas in Hawaiʻi.

Honolulu Boy Choir Christmas in Hawaiʻi What a wonderful time of the   year Surf is running high Higher than the sky all  year Christmas in Hawaiʻi 0000 flowers flaming red   in every flower bed --- Keiki --- with faces all a  glow --- the snowman ---Christmas in Hawaiʻi how I   wish in my heart you were here Christmas  in Hawaiʻi this year Jing jing jing a   ling --- Ding dong ding along --- Christmas in  Hawaii is like Christmas ev'rywhere The bells   ring out and children shout their greetings on the  air Christmas in Hawaii is the day when Christ was   born There is no snow but people go to church  on Christmas morn Ting, ting, ting-a-ling jingle   bells ring from a steel guitar Ding, ding,  ding-a-long all the bells ring from near and   far --- Christmas in Hawaii how I wish  in my heart you were here grab a lucky   start --- Christmas in Hawaiʻi this year.

Charles Peck  You know, there are many roads that lead  to Christmas and when the day is done,   to make it completely perfect, they  all blend into a happy and joyful one.

Honolulu Boy Choir Jingle bells upon a steel guitar Through   the palm trees we see the same bright star Kani  kani pele Kani kani pele Kani ma'o ma'a nei Le'a   le'a makou Ika holo-ana Ika ka'a hao lio ho'o-kahi  Kani kani pele Kani kani pele Kani ma'o ma'a nei   Le'a le'a makou Ika holo-ana Ika ka'a hao lio  ho'o-kahi Mele Kalikimaka is the thing to say On   a bright Hawaiian Christmas day That's the island  greeting that we send to you From the land where   palm trees sway Here we know that Christmas will  be green and bright The sun to shine by day and   all the stars at night Mele Kalikimaka is  Hawaiʻi's way To say Merrry Christmas A very Merry   Christmas a very Merry Christmas to you Charles Peck  What love Mother Nature has for with  one Christmas snowfall, she creates   beauty for us all.

(Piano playing)   Honolulu Boy Choir The sun is shining, the grass   is green The coconut palm trees sway There's  never been such a day in Hawaiʻi USA.

But it's   December and you must know, I am just longing to  enjoy the Snow I'm dreaming of a white Christmas   Just like the ones I used to know Where  the treetops glisten and children listen   To hear sleigh bells in the snow  I'm dreaming of a white Christmas   With every Christmas card I write May your  days be merry and bright And may all your   Christmases be white (Piano) I'm dreaming of  a white Christmas Just like the ones I used to   know Where those treetops glisten and children  listen To hear sleigh bells in the snow, the   snow I'm dreaming of a white Christmas With every  Christmas card I write May your days be merry and   bright And may all your Christmases be white (Group singing) Jingle bells Jingle bells   Jingle all the way Oh, what fun It is to  ride In a one-horse open sleigh Hey Jingle   bells Jingle bells Jingle all the way Oh,  what fun It is to ride In a one-horse open   sleigh Ho ho ho Charles Peck  Well, may Christmas bring you happiness and  laughter and a song to fill your heart.

May   Christmas be a blessed time you spend with  those most dear and a reminder that Christmas   should be for all year.

Honolulu Boy Choir  Haul out the holly Put up the tree before  my spirit falls again Fill up the stocking I   may be rushing things, but deck the halls again  now For we need a little Christmas, right this   very minute Candles in the window, carols at  the spinet Yes, we need a little Christmas,   right this very minute It hasn't snowed a single  flurry, but Santa's here we're in a hurry So climb   down the chimney Turn on the brightest string  of lights I've ever seen Slice up the fruit   cake It's time we've hung some tinsel on  the evergreen bough For I've grown a little   leaner, grown a little colder Grown a little  sadder, grown a little older And I need a little   angel sitting on my shoulder  Need a little Christmas now   Charlotte Simmons: Children, have you all heard   the story the Night Before Christmas?

(Charles: And all through the house?)

Charlotte Simmons: Would you like Charles to tell it to us again?

(Kids: Yeah) Charles Peck  All right, if you want me to read to  you, come on over here.

Come on all of   you.

That's good.

I just happened to have  a copy here with me.

Okay, come on, that's   it.

All right.

What's happening?

What is this?

(Charlotte: You have to make it look like Santa)  Okay, come on, sit down here.

All right.

Here we go.

It's been a long time since  I read this, Charlotte.

Charles Peck 'Twas the night before Christmas, when   all through the house Not a creature was stirring,  not even a mouse; The stockings were hung by the   chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon  would be there; The children were nestled all snug   in their beds; While visions of sugar-plums danced  through their heads; And mamma in her 'kerchief,   and I in my cap, Had just settled our brains for  a long winter's nap, When out on the lawn there   arose such a clatter, I sprang from my bed to see  what was the matter.

Away to the window I flew   like a flash, Tore open the shutters and threw up  the sash.

The moon on the breast of the new-fallen   snow, Gave the lustre of midday to objects below,  When what to my wondering eyes should appear, But   a miniature sleigh and eight tiny reindeer, With  a little old driver so lively and quick, I knew   in a moment he must be St. Nick.

More rapid than  eagles his coursers they came, And he whistled,   and shouted, and called them by name: "Now,  Dasher!

Now, Dancer!

Now Prancer!

Now Vixen!

On,   Comet!

On, Cupid!

On, Donder and Blitzen!

As I  drew in my head, and was turning around, Down the   chimney St. Nicholas came with a bound.

He was  dressed all in fur, from his head to his foot,   And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and  soot; A bundle of toys he had flung on his back,   And he looked like a pedler just opening his  pack.

His eyes—how they twinkled!

His dimples,   how merry!

His cheeks were like roses, his nose  like a cherry!

His droll little mouth was drawn   up like a bow, And the beard on his chin was as  white as the snow; The stump of a pipe he held   tight in his teeth, And the smoke, it encircled  his head like a wreath; He had a broad face and a   little round belly That shook when he laughed,  like a bowl full of jelly.

He was chubby and   plump, a right jolly old elf, And I laughed when  I saw him, in spite of myself; A wink of his eye   and a twist of his head soon gave me to know  I had nothing to dread; He spoke not a word,   but went straight to his work, And filled all the  stockings; then turned with a jerk, And laying his   finger aside of his nose, And giving a nod, up  the chimney he rose; He sprang to his sleigh,   to his team gave a whistle, And away they all  flew like the down of a thistle.

But I heard   him exclaim as he drove out of sight— “Happy  Christmas to all, and to all a good night!”   Charlotte Simmons: Thank you, Charles, that was nice.

Charles Peck Tell me, Charlotte, do you have any children?

Charlotte Simmons: Of course I do.

Three sons.

Charles Peck Three sons?!

Are they little boys?

Charlotte Simmons: No, well, they're little boys in their hearts,   but big little boys now.

Charles Peck  Do they believe in Santa Claus?

Charlotte Simmons:  Of course they do.

Charles, let me tell you a  story.

I remember the day when one of my sons   had entered his new world of school, and someone  there had told him that there was no Santa Claus.

I saw the blazing light of hope in his dark eyes  flicker with doubt as he sought the truth.

He   wanted the answer from me.

So I told him that  as long as there are children in the world,   there will be a Santa Claus, and as surely  as love and faith and hope and generosity   live in the heart and in the home, there will be  a Santa Claus, and he will Come at Christmas time,   again and again and again.

No, you will really  never see him.

No one ever has.

But no one ever   saw love in his mother's heart, right?

And faith  in the soul of a child, but these are the part of   the wonderment of life.

There's a thin veil  covering children and the unseen world, and   only the children themselves can push it aside and  enter it to see all the magic and beauty and the   glory that flows behind.

It's from this wonderful  world, the world of make believe that the great   realities are born.

The unseen wonders of the  world create faith and fancy, love and poetry and   romance.

How dreary a world would be for little  children if there was no Santa Claus, right?

So I   told my son that Santa loves and lives forever  to make all the hearts of the little children   everywhere glad.

When you are young, you have your  own special world, and once you pass through it,   of your make believe world, you never come back.

You never return.

Yeah, Charles, my sons believe   in Santa Claus.

They still do.

Charles, what is  the greatest gift a person can give someone?

Charles Peck Well, I feel that the greatest   gift you can give is of yourself.

Now it's great  to know to wrap gifts and bring them to people,   but somehow at Christmas time, when people  are lonely, I think that a visit is much   more important.

I think that's the greatest  gift you can give.

The gift of yourself.

Honolulu Boy Choir Come, they told me Pa ra pa pa pum A   new born King to see Pa ra pa pa pum Our finest  gifts we bring Pa ra pa pa pum To lay before   the King Pa ra pa pa pum, Ra pa pa pum, Ra pa  pa pum So to honour Him Pa ra pa pa pum When we   come.

Baby Iesu Pa rum pum pum pum I am a  poor boy too Pa rum pum pum pum I have no gift   to bring Pa rum pum pum pum That's fit to give  our king Pa rum pum pum pum, Rum pum pum pum,   Rum pum pum pum Shall I play for you Pa rum  pum pum pum On my drum Mary nodded Pa rum pum   pum pum The ox and lamb kept time Pa rum pum pum  pum I played my drum for him Pa rum pum pum pum   I played my best for him Pa rum pum pum pum,  Rum pum pum pum, Rum pum pum pum Then he smiled   at me Pa rum pum pum pum Me and my drum Charles Peck  The best and sweetest things in life are things  you cannot buy: the music of the birds at dawn,   the rainbow in the sky, the dazzling  magic of the stars, the miracle of light,   the precious gift of health and strength, of  hearing, speech and sights and peace of mind and   a setting sun.

And as the years go by, you find  the greatest gifts are the things you cannot buy.

Honolulu Boy Choir O come, all ye faithful, joyful and   triumphant O come ye, o come ye to Bethlehem Come  and behold Him, born the King of Angels O come,   let us adore Him O come, let us adore Him  O come, let us adore Him Christ the Lord   Charlotte Simmons: I'd like you to meet our faithful Pau Hana Years   staff, our executive producer, Nino Martin.

Charles Peck  Oh, I never thought we would have Nino  Martin on Pau Hana Years finally made it   Nino J. Martin: I finally made it on Pau Hana Years.

Thank you, and I want to thank the folks out there  for joining us this past year on Pau Hana Years,   we really enjoyed bringing you the programs  that we've got here.

And also like to thank   our staff here who worked very hard to bring  you the program.

And that's Charlotte Simmons,   our producer and our two directors.

Joy Chong.

Hi  Joy, merry Christmas to you.

And Larry Sickter,   both of them working very hard in the control room  and switching the shows and so forth.

Charlie.

(Charles: Yes) Nino J. Martin:  May I touch your beard?

(Charles: Everybody else has)  Nino J. Martin: Does it mean that when I   grow up I'm going to look like that too?

(Charles: If you have any luck at all)  Nino J. Martin: Ah, okay.

Well, when I come back   on Pau Hana Years, I'll have a full beard.

From all of us on the staff,   Merry Christmas and happy holidays to you.

Charlotte Simmons:  Charles.

Tell us more about  Christmas.

What is it all about?

Charles Peck Well, Christmas is dreams and hopes fulfilled   and carols.

It's magic rising up to bless each  year, a flashback to the glory which was youth.

Christmas is so many, many things.

It is a  star which wise men follow with humble hearts.

We wish you a world of happiness on Christmas  Day.

May you have many visitors with friendliness   to share, and may God bestow His grace  on you and answer your every prayer.

Honolulu Boy Choir Hark the herald angels sing "Glory to the newborn   King!

Peace on earth and mercy mild God and  sinners reconciled" Joyful, all ye nations rise   Join the triumph of the skies With the angelic  host proclaim: "Christ is born in Bethlehem"   Hark!

The herald angels sing  "Glory to the newborn King!"

Honolulu Boy Choir All to all our friends, relatives   and loved ones.

We thank you, especially Peter  and Henry.

Thank you.

To our older generation,   we thank you for the gifts you have given us.

You  have given us attention and a sense of value and a   sense of humor.

You gave us discipline and a will  to work.

You taught us to share and to believe and   to respect justice and truth, and you've given us  hope and love.

All of these we will pass on to our   children and other generations will continue to do  so too, all because you took the time to give to   us.

We wish you all a happy and merry Christmas.

Honolulu Boy Choir  Pō kamahaʻo, Maluhia, malamalama  Ka makuahine aloha ē Me ke   keiki hemolele ē Moe me ka maluhia lani  Moe me ka maluhia lani Silent night,   holy night All is calm, all is bright  Round yon Virgin Mother and Child   Holy Infant so tender and mild Sleep in  heavenly peace Sleep in heavenly peace.