The Angel of Christmas | Sean of the South

Sean of the South

Sean Dietrich

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5.0 • 546 Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2017

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Sean of the South's first Christmas special—whatever that means. Sean sings a beloved carol, then delivers a story about Christmas and eighteen-wheelers. Live, from the Luverne United Methodist Church. With music by the Red Cedar Review, and carols on the classical guitar by Alex Barnett.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Sean of the South.
0:05.8	I'm your host, Sean Dietrich.
0:07.6	This is our Christmas special.
0:08.8	We're coming to you from the Louverne, United Methodist Church,
0:11.4	a taste of Christmas.
0:15.8	That music here behind me is the Red Cedar Review,
0:18.7	and Fire Tag on Madeline, Brad Edwardson on the guitar.
0:22.8	My special musical guest this week is Alex Barnett, classical guitarist and prodigy on six strings.
0:43.8	You can wish for whatever you want this Christmas, but I know what I'm going to wish for.
0:48.3	I'm going to wish for something that I know I'm going to get older.
0:52.2	That's right. Santa hadn't let me down yet.
1:00.3	I saw a childhood photo myself sitting by the Christmas tree in a pair of pajamas, the kind with the seat flap and the buttons.
1:04.5	Good God, I looked like a baby.
1:08.0	25-year-olds ought not wear them kind of pajamas.
1:14.5	The truth is, you couldn't pay me enough to go backward and grow up all over again.
1:21.3	I don't care how good my skin looked or how plush my hair was.
1:23.1	I hate Algebra.
1:27.9	One of my childhood friends had developed a head of gray hair.
1:35.8	I saw my buddy after about 20 years, and it's funny how silver hair can change someone altogether.
1:38.8	He's not the same man he used to be.
1:45.0	That rambunctious, dark-headed joker who once landed me in jail for exactly one night,
1:49.1	who slept like a log while I hum the fulsome prison blues.
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