To ask you to search your memory for this Christmas song

[Firstbornunicorn]

I have a very vivid memory of singing a song at one of my primary school nativity plays. I went to a Catholic school in the 90s, so it might have been written as part of an RE curriculum. Still, I remember really liking it, and I'd love my future DC to have a recording of it to sing along to. I can't seem to find it anywhere online. Here are the words as I remember them.

Clip, clop, clippedy clop
Come on, little donkey, there's no time to stop!
You've got to carry Mary to Bethlehem, and it's almost Christmas morn.

And on Christmas morn, a child will be born
To save our souls for heaven to this world forlorn.
The sky is bright with heavenly light
And it's almost Christmas morn.

Shepherds, watching their sheep.
Wake up, sleepy shepherds, there's no time to sleep!
There's something special happening in Bethlehem,
And it's almost Christmas morn.

And on Christmas morn, a child will be born,
To save our souls for heaven from this world forlorn.
The sky is bright with heavenly light, and it's almost Christmas morn.

Wise men, journeying far,
Keep watching the very special shining star.
You've got to travel onwards to Bethlehem, and it's almost Christmas morn.

And on Christmas morn, a child will be born ...etc

I think it had a few more verses, but those are the ones I remember. Does anyone else remember this? Have I made it up, somehow???

is it this one

@elizabethdraper nope, although we did sing that as well.

@Mokepon not this one, either.

I'm starting to think I imagined this!

Little Donkey?

Maybe its one that one of the teachers made up, one of our teachers at primary who was in charge of all the music for any school plays often made up songs to fit the theme

@JorahsMistress maybe! But I think we learned it from an audio tape in class. That doesn't mean she couldn't have done that, she was super creative.

Probably, my teacher could also sing and thats the sort of thing she used to do 😊

I have to say that first verse shakes a memory! But no idea, sorry!

It may be from a Christmas play that the school purchased. They often come with CD etc. (cassette back in the day)

I think I've found it!
www.holychildps.com/video-clips-from-our-christmas-carol-service/

"Almost Christmas Morn"

Wow Frosty - what a detective!

@FrostyMoanyWind THAT IS IT!!!! How did you manage that? I've been all over Google. I literally cried when I heard it! Interesting that it's an NI school and I'm in NI as well. It must be from one of those Alive-O packages or something similar.

@FrostyMoanyWind forgot to say - thank you!!

Wow @FrostyMoanyWind nice detective skills 😁

Luck! I spend a while searching donkeys and Mary and carols with no luck but was pretty sure that, unlike most carols, the title isn't the first line. So picked a phrase from the text that sounded title-like! I can't find it anywhere else though. I'm certain we sang it too, not in NI though. Have sent you a PM

Mn at its best!

I'm seriously impressed! I've subjected poor DH to it several times now. It seems I may be misremembering some of the lyrics, but the assembly-style singing is a bit difficult to make out. It's definitely the right song, though!