I've always loved this song since I heard it sung at the end of It's a Wonderful Life when I was a kid.

(As many of you know, I can tend toward the so-called "high-brow" - although I don't really see it that way.. another post for another time - in my artistic tastes, but this movie is still one of my favourites: a real story, beauty, compelling characters, light-heartedness, darkness, humanity and humour, and HOPE.)

Anyway, it is the perfect, classic New Year's song: nostalgia and beauty--you can feel in the melody the simultaneous looking back and looking forward, I think. Last year, I recorded it independently for my winter/Christmas selection EP.

The tone underneath is a Byzantine chant-inspired touch that made this version what it is. I realized only after that it was fitting for a classic Scottish song with a gentle echo of the bag pipes' drone.

Now it's time to share it with you! Happy new year!

xx,
Kay

• My more official New Year's greeting/sum up: https://steemit.com/steemit/@kayclarity/2017-and-2018-how-steemit-is-shifting-my-paradigm-and-can-shift-yours-quickly-too

• Another cover I recently recorded and posted: https://steemit.com/music/@kayclarity/cover-time-don-t-dream-it-s-over

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