—MO December 20, 1972 NO.194—GP

WC2E 7LX England, or B.P.752, 75123 Paris Cedex 03 France

I was dreaming about a Christmas tree, the gifts, etc when these words began coming to me in my sleep:

You can have your little baubles

And your Merry Christmas tree

But all I want for Christmas

is the Spirit wild and free!

For the Son of God was given

And was hung upon a tree,

And the only Gift for Christmas

Is His Gift for you and me!

It's the Spirit of that Christmas

That gives life to you and me

For a very Happy New Year

And a life that's wild and free!

Give me spirit, give me spirit!

Oh that's the life for me!

So for a Happy New Year

Give me Spirit that is free!

It's the Spirit, it's the Spirit!

It's the Spirit wild and free!

It's the Spirit, it's the Spirit!

Oh that's the life for me!

You can have your earthly treasures

Your silver and your gold,

You can live a life of a pleasure

Like a tale that's often told.

You can have flesh without measure

From your birth till you get old‚

But the Spirit, it's the Spirit

That can never yet be sold!

It's the Spirit, it's the Spirit

Of life that's wild and free,

It's the Spirit‚ it's the Spirit!

It's the Spirit that's for me!

You can travel in the Spirit

From the Moon to distant Mars,

You can travel by the Spirit,

Hitch your wagon to the stars!

You can travel in the Spirit

So much further than in cars,

It's the Spirit, it's the Spirit

That keeps breaking all your jars!

It's the Spirit, it's the Spirit!

It's the Spirit that's for me!

In the Spirit, in the Spirit

You can live a life that's free!

In the Spirit, in the Spirit

You can travel without rhyme,

In the Spirit, in the Spirit

Everything can be a mime!

In the Spirit, in the Spirit

You can live in any clime,

In the Spirit, in the Spirit

You're not bound by tide or time!

It's the Spirit‚ it's the Spirit,

It's the Spirit that's for me!

Oh the Spirit, Oh the Spirit

For the life that's wild and free!

Oh the Spirit, Oh the Spirit

For the life that's never bound!

Oh the Spirit, yes the Spirit

For that place of heavenly sound!

In the Spirit, in the Spirit

I can go around and 'round!

In the Spirit, in the Spirit

I can never yet be found!

It's the Spirit, it's the Spirit

That's the life for me!

Give me Spirit, give me Spirit

So I can be wild and free!

You can have your earthly treasure

And your silver and your gold,

You can live a life of pleasure

Like a tale that's often told.

You can build your house with measure

That will decay and will mold,

It's the Spirit, it's the Spirit

That has never yet been sold!

It's the Spirit, it's the Spirit!

It's the Spirit that's for me!

It's the Spirit, it's the Spirit!

It's the life that's full and free!

In the Spirit‚ in the Spirit

I can travel far and wide,

In the Spirit, in the Spirit

I'm not bound by time or tide!

Thru' the Spirit‚ thru' the Spirit

I can see the other side,

By the Spirit, by the Spirit

I am able there to hide!

Oh the Spirit, it's the Spirit!

That's the life for me!

In the Spirit, by the Spirit

You can live a life that's free!

You can have your earthly pleasure

Your silver and your gold!

I prefer no earthly measure,

And a life that ne'er grows old!

You can live a life of leisure

And have virtues that are sold-

But it's the Spirit, just the Spirit

That will never rot or mold!

It's the Spirit, it's the Spirit!

Yes that's the life for me!

In the Spirit, in the Spirit

I'm so wildly, wildly free!

In the Spirit, in the Spirit

It is better than the flesh,

For the Spirit, by the Spirit

You can carnal means enmesh.

In the Spirit, in the Spirit

You can go to Bangladesh,

In the Spirit, in the Spirit

You can go to Marrakesh!

Oh the Spirit, it's the Spirit!

Yes that's the life for me!

In the Spirit‚ by the Spirit.

You can live a life that's free!

Oh the Spirit, yes the Spirit!

That's the Life for me!

In the Spirit, in the Spirit

Is the only life that's free!

In the Spirit, in the Spirit

All my life is like a song,

In the Spirit, in the Spirit

I am happy all day long!

In the Spirit, in the Spirit

There is much more right than wrong‚

In the Spirit, in the Spirit

You can really kick the gong!

Give me Spirit‚ give me Spirit

Give me Spirit wild and free!

Give me Spirit, give me Spirit

Oh that's the life for me!

In the Spirit, in the Spirit

You can love the girls all day,

In the Spirit, by the Spirit,

And you never have to pay.

In the Spirit, through the Spirit

You can play and play and play!

When I'm happy in the Spirit

I don't care what others say!

Oh the Spirit, yes the Spirit!

That's the life for me!

Oh the Spirit, oh the Spirit

And I'm happy‚ wild and free!

You can live a life of Spirit

In a world that's always free,

You can live a life of Spirit

That's not bound by land or sea.

You can live a life in Spirit

That no man can ever see,

You can live a life of Spirit

And be what you want to be!

Yes the Spirit, yes the Spirit!

Oh the Spirit is for me!

In the Spirit, in the Spirit

I can live a life that's free!

In the Spirit, in the Spirit

I can enter without fee,

By the Spirit, by the Spirit

I can windward o'er the lea.

In the Spirit, through the Spirit

I can be you or her or me,

With the Spirit, yes the Spirit

We can all be them or we!

Oh the Spirit, yes the Spirit-

That's the life for me!

In the Spirit, in the Spirit

I'm whatever I may be!

Oh the Spirit‚ that's the Spirit!

That's the life for me!

In the Spirit, just the Spirit,

Are you really, really free!

Oh the Spirit, yes the Spirit!

Yes that's the life for me!

For the Spirit, by the Spirit

In the Spirit you are free!

Oh the Spirit, blessed Spirit,

How I thank Thee, for by Thee

I am always in the Spirit

And I live a life that's free!

Oh I thank Thee for Thy Spirit

Thou hast given unto me,

For it's only by Thy Spirit

I have truly been set free!

Oh in Spirit, yes in Spirit

Won't you come along with me?

For by Jesus' precious Spirit

We can both be wild and free!

(Crazy thoughts of David,

So happy wild and free!

You must never dare attribute

That these words were made by me!

You must lay aside your tablet

And must bottle up thy pen,

For the wondrous words of David

Are not all for mortal ken,

Neither are the words of David

Always understood by men,

But the Spirit will interpret

If you ever have a yen!-

-If you hear the harp of David

In his spiritual den!)

Oh the Spirit, oh the Spirit!

It's the only life that's free!

Oh the precious Holy Spirit!

That's the life for me!

Neither whisky, wine nor spirits

Can beholden what I see,

But God's precious Holy Spirit

Is the only One for me!

Oh the Spirit, yes the Spirit!

That's the only life for me!

For it's only in His Spirit

I can really be so free!

In the Spirit‚ in the Spirit

Yes that's the life for me!

For it's only by His Spirit

I can ever be set free!

Oh God's precious Holy Spirit

Is like a lovely tree!

So come on my dears and darlings,

Won't you climb it up with me?

Oh the Spirit, I love the Spirit,

In the Spirit I am free!

Oh God's precious Holy Spirit

That's the only gift for Me!

In God's precious Holy Spirit

We can sing and dance so free!

O my dears and O my darlings

Won't you come along with me?

Give me Spirit, give me Spirit

For the life that's wild and free!

I only want the Spirit

For my Merry Christmas Tree!

For the Son of God was given

And was hung upon a tree,

And the only Gift for Christmas

Is His Gift for you and me!

You can have your little baubles

And your Merry Christmas tree!

But all I want for Christmas

Is the Spirit wild and free!