We Wish You Happy Holidays – Multicultural Version

We wish you a Merry Christmas
Warm Solstice and Happy Hanukkah
A most meaningfu-ul Kwanzaa
And Boxing Day too! **see note below about other holidays

Good tidings we bring, good cheer we all sing!
We wish you a happy holiday
And a tranquil New Year!

Whateve-er the-e date is
In all the-e wo-orld’s places
A seaso-on of justice
Is our wish for you!

Good tidings we bring, good cheer we all sing!
We wish you a happy holiday
And a tranquil New Year!

We all love our celebrations
Special foods a-and li-ibations
Across cultures a-and nations
May peace come to you!

Good tidings we bring, good cheer we all sing!
We wish you a happy holiday
And a tranquil New Year!

**Other greetings might be inserted in the first stanza, for example Shubh Diwali (“Shoob dee-vah-lee”; Eid Mubarak (“Eed moo-bahr-ak”); Ramadan Kareem or Ramadan Mubarak; or Blessed Isra & Miraj. But care must be taken to only include these when they fall within the month you will be singing! The Muslim and Hindu calendars are lunar/lunisolar and do not follow the 12-month cycle most of us are used to. As of this writing, none of the above-mentioned festivals will fall in December until at least 2027. However well-intentioned, it would be insensitive to sing about them at the wrong time of the year.