The holidays are a time for wishes.
Another night, another wish …
Someday at Christmas man will not failHate will be gone and love will prevailSomeday a new world that we can startWith hope in every heart, yeah
That wish comes all the way from 1966, when Motown songwriters Ron Miller and Bryan Wells looked around and wondered just what the hell was going on in this land of ours. A lot of us are wondering the same thing today.
Thus that simple wish, voiced a year later by a 17-year-old Stevie Wonder.
“Someday at Christmas,” Stevie Wonder, 1967, from the “Someday at Christmas” LP. (I have this cut on “A Motown Christmas,” the essential 1973 holiday comp on the Motown label.)
Every verse expresses a simple but timeless wish.
A world where people are free.
A world with peace on Earth.
A world where dreams come to be.
A world without hunger.
A world where people care.
Maybe not in time for you and meBut someday at Christmastime