Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song A Christmas Carol, artist - Christmas Songs. Date of issue: 25.11.2018
Song language: English
A Christmas Carol |
| One very familiar type of song is the Christmas carol. |
| Although it is perhaps a bit out of season at this time. |
| However, I’m informed by my disk jockey friends — of whom |
| I have none, that in order to get a song popular by Christmas |
| Time, you have to start plugging it well in advance. |
| So here |
| Goes. |
| It has always seemed to me after all, that Christmas, |
| With it’s spirit of giving, offers us all a wonderful opportunity |
| Each year to reflect on what we all most sincerely and deeply |
| Believe in — I refer of course, to money. |
| And yet none of the |
| Christmas carols that you hear on the radio or in the street, |
| Even attempt to capture the true spirit of Christmas as we Celebrate it in the United States, that is to say the commercial |
| Spirit. |
| So I should like to offer the following Christmas carol |
| For next year, as being perhaps a bit more appropriate. |
| Christmas time is here, by golly |
| Disapproval would be folly |
| Deck the halls with hunks of holly |
| Fill the cup and don’t say when |
| Kill the turkeys, ducks and chickens |
| Mix the punch, drag out the Dickens |
| Even though the prospect sickens |
| Brother, here we go again |
| On Christmas Day you can’t get sore |
| Your fellow man you must adore |
| There’s time to rob him all the more |
| The other three hundred and sixty-four |
| Relations, sparing no expense, 'll |
| Send some useless old utensil |
| Or a matching pen and pencil |
| («Just the thing I need, how nice!») |
| It doesn’t matter how sincere it is Nor how heart felt the spirit |
| Sentiment will not endear it What’s important is the price |
| Hark, the Herald Tribune sings |
| Advertising wondrous things |
| God rest ye merry merchants |
| May ye make the Yuletide pay |
| Angels we have heard on high |
| Tell us to go out and — buy! |
| So let the raucous sleighbells jingle |
| Hail our dear old friend Kriss Kringle |
| Driving his reindeer across the sky |
| Don’t stand underneath when they fly by |
| (Spoken) |
| Actually I did rather well myself, this last Christmas. |
| The nicest present I received was a gift certificate |
| «Good at any hospital for a lobotomy»… rather thoughtful. |