Stevie Wonder released “Someday at Christmas” on the eponymous album in 1967. As with John Lennon/Yoko Ono’s “Happy Xmas War Is Over” four years later, it imagines a time when the holiday will not be celebrated in spite of war. Nice thought, but here we are—55 years later—dreaming of the same thing.
Every single thing in this
song—a world without war, a land where all are free and no one is hungry, a
place where hate is gone and love prevails—is completely in line with the promise
of this season. Sadly, I concur with Wonder that I am unlikely to live long
enough to see any of them, but we can all work toward changing our course.
I’ve chosen Lizzo’s cover of
the song, released this year, because of all the RWNJ’s who didn’t even know
James Monroe was our fifth president lost their damn minds when the classically
trained musician played the long-dead Virginian’s 1813 crystal flute a few
months ago.
May we free our world from hunger,
fear, inequality and men being boys.
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