Big Idea

• The Prescott Courthouse Lighting will be virtual this year due to COVID-19
• You can sing along at the end of the ceremony
• Just record yourself and your family or friends singing 'Jingle Bells' and 'We Wish You a Merry Christmas'
• Send the recording in, and we will combine it with the video for the Virtual Ceremony
• Read more...

Due to COVID-19, there will be no gathering to light the Prescott Courthouse. But, you can still sing along!

PRESCOTT, AZ: This year the Prescott Courthouse Lighting will be virtual and online so that all can stay home and stay safe. However, we want everyone to be a part of this traditional ceremony.

As we create the virtual broadcast, we are requesting your help with the finale for the lighting ceremony. Here’s how you participate:

Listen to the two musical videos below and follow along. The lyrics are also provided. Then, record yourself and/or your family on video singing the first verse and chorus of “Jingle Bells” and the entirety of “We Wish You a Merry Christmas”. You can use your phone, your computer video recorder, or any other device you have. If possible, please hold the phone horizontally. If you have

The lyrics to both songs and the music videos are at the bottom of this email.

There are no costume suggestions or locations, feel free to be as creative or uncreative as you would like. The goal of this is to spread holiday cheer throughout our community and state, while we stay safe in our homes.

Then, email that recording to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. We need the file by no later than Wednesday at 7 PM so there is enough time to put them all together.

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The recorded videos are linked below:

We Wish You a Merry Christmas

Jingle Bells

Song Lyrics:

“Jingle Bells”

Dashing through the snow
On a one horse open sleigh
O'er the fields we go,
Laughing all the way. 

Bells on bob tail ring,
making spirits bright
What fun it is to laugh and sing
A sleighing song tonight 

Oh, jingle bells, jingle bells
Jingle all the way
Oh, what fun it is to ride
In a one horse open sleigh

Jingle bells, jingle bells
Jingle all the way
Oh, what fun it is to ride
In a one horse open sleigh

“We Wish You A Merry Christmas”

We wish you a Merry Christmas,
We wish you a Merry Christmas,
We wish you a Merry Christmas,
And a Happy New Year.

Good tidings we bring,
To you and your kin,
Good tidings for Christmas,
And a Happy New Year.

Now bring us some figgy pudding
Now bring us some figgy pudding
Now bring us some figgy pudding
And bring it right here

Good tidings we bring,
To you and your kin,
Good tidings for Christmas,
And a Happy New Year.

We won't go until we get some
We won't go until we get some
We won't go until we get some
So bring it right here

Good tidings we bring,
To you and your kin,
Good tidings for Christmas,
And a Happy New Year.

We wish you a Merry Christmas,
We wish you a Merry Christmas,
We wish you a Merry Christmas,
And a Happy New Year.

Good tidings we bring,
To you and your kin,
Good tidings for Christmas,
And a Happy New Year.

Audio-only files:

We Wish You a Merry Christmas

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Z7544AezEF-QzDsdasQpE3otbbGnsVgl/view?usp=sharing

Jingle Bells

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kMTuVyzygvmYSjFTF6hAIZNT2HfBAwLa/view?usp=sharing