DIANA KRALL - COUNT YOUR BLESSING INSTEAD OF SHEEP

COUNT YOUR BLESSING INSTEAD OF SHEEP

DIANA KRALL

SONGWRITER: IRVING BERLIN

COUNTRY: CANADA

ALBUM: CHRISTMAS SONGS

LABEL: VERVE

GENRE: CHRISTMAS MUSIC

YEAR: 2005

Christmas Songs is the eighth studio album by Canadian singer Diana Krall, performed with the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra. It was released on October 26, 2005 by Verve Records. This is Krall's first full-length album of Christmas songs (not counting her 1998 EP Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas), and her first studio album with a big band. The album was released on vinyl for the first time on October 14, 2016.

Tad Hendrickson of JazzTimes stated "Krall gets a ton of help on her Christmas album from the well-drilled Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra as well as from the usual peeps in her own bands. The singer doesn't work too hard to sell it, preferring to stay in the pocket, and the solos are short all the way around, but it all sounds swingin', fun and jazzy". John Bungey of The Times noted "If your idea of a perfect Yuletide is Jimmy Stewart on the telly and Bing on the radio, and you believe that, musically, it's all been downhill since 1955, then Krall's album will suit perfectly".

When I'm worried

And I can't sleep

I count my blessings

Instead of sheep

And I fall asleep

Counting

My blessings

When my bankroll

Is getting small

I think

Of when I had

None at all

And I fall asleep

Counting

My blessings

I think about

A nursery

And I picture

Curly heads

And one by one

I count them

As they slumber

In their beds

If you're worried

And you can't sleep

Just count

Your blessings

Instead of sheep

And you'll

Fall asleep

Counting

Your blessings

I think about

A nursery

And I picture

Curly heads

And one by one

I count them

As they slumber

In their beds

If you're worried

And you can't sleep

Just count

Your blessings

Instead of sheep

And you'll

Fall asleep

Counting

Your blessings.