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The source video I used to create this one is here: [ Ссылка ]
That was the best-quality upload of this music video I could find online, and it is the official upload by the official Greg Lake channel. Its picture had been horizontally stretched, so that everything appeared too wide, so I have used special software to unstretch it. It had a resolution of 4K, but I was not able to maintain this while also unstretching the video picture, so my video has a resolution of 1080p, which is the maximum I was able to have. I have also replaced the audio track with a high-quality one, and this involved slowing down the footage slightly, as it was running a bit fast compared to the HQ audio track I am using. The source video was also slightly out of sync, with the picture running late compared to the sound, so I have fixed that. I have also added optional subtitles for the lyrics.

This song was written by Greg Lake, Peter Sinfield and Sergei Prokofiev. The credit to Prokofiev is due to the song using a melody from the "Troika" portion of his "Lieutenant Kijé Suite", written for the 1934 Soviet film "Lieutenant Kijé". This track was produced by Greg Lake and Peter Sinfield, and was released in 1975. It was released as a stand-alone (non-album) single, and then in 1977 was released as a track on the Emerson, Lake & Palmer album "Works Volume 2". This single reached No. 2 in his native UK, and according to Wikipedia, it reached No. 17 in Ireland, No. 95 in the USA, and No. 97 in Australia. No other territories are mentioned. In the UK, it was kept off the No. 1 spot by Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody", and this was for two weeks just after Christmas 1975. In the Christmas chart, it was at No. 3, and at No. 2 was Laurel & Hardy's "The Trail Of The Lonesome Pine". Info source: [ Ссылка ]

For more information on this song and track, see these pages:
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I currently have one other video which features Greg Lake, and it's this:
Emerson, Lake & Palmer : "Fanfare For The Common Man" (1977) • Unofficial Music Video • HQ Audio
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I currently have one other video which features a song co-written by Peter Sinfield, and that song is also Christmas classic; it's this:
Chris Squire & Alan White : "Run With The Fox" (1981) • Unofficial Music Video • HQ Audio • Lyrics
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I have not been able to find an official presentation of the lyrics to this song. Presented below and as optional subtitles in the video is my own transcript of the lyrics, for which I have used the transcripts found on lyrics websites as a guide. In trying to determine the exact correct lyrics, I have also referred to videos of live performances of the song by Greg.

Lyrics:

"I Believe In Father Christmas"

- Greg Lake

(Words and Music by Greg Lake, Peter Sinfield and Sergei Prokofiev)

They said there'll be snow at Christmas
They said there'll be peace on earth
But instead, it just kept on raining
A veil of tears for the virgin birth
I remember one Christmas morning
A winter's light and a distant choir
And the peal of a bell and that Christmas tree smell
And their eyes full of tinsel and fire

They sold me a dream of Christmas
They sold me a silent night
And they told me a fairy story
Till I believed in the Israelite
And I believed in Father Christmas
And I looked to the sky with excited eyes
Then I woke with a yawn in the first light of dawn
And I saw him and through his disguise

I wish you a hopeful Christmas
I wish you a brave new year
All anguish, pain and sadness
Leave your heart and let your road be clear
They said there'd be snow at Christmas
They said there'd be peace on earth
Hallelujah, Noël, be it heaven or hell
The Christmas we get we deserve

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