| Well Santa had to close up his workshop*
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| Sometime after Christmas '09
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| 'Cause sadly the economy’s a mess and jobs are hard to find
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| It’s sad to see our holiday heroes
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| Struggling to just make a dime
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| But it’s sink or swim, 'cause the times are grim It’s like a Christmas Special
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| in the unemployment line…
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| Frosty got a job in a kitchen
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| And his boss is in a terrible mood
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| He said, «I swear I’m tossing you in the oven If you keep sweating in the food!»
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| Santa went to work in a coal mine
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| And the irony is perfectly clear
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| He’s got zero toys for the girls and boys
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| I guess we’ve all been bad this year, but oh
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| Empty sleighs in the snow
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| All overrun with mistletoe
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| No magic reindeer putting on a show
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| There’s nothing but coal in Santa’s sack
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| Cause he’s workin’in the mines now and breakin’his back
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| «I don’t know what I’m doing and I feel like a hack
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| And all I want for Christmas is my old job back
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| All I want for Christmas is my old job back!»
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| Tiny Tim got laid off in August
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| And he couldn’t pay his rent anymore
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| So he bounced around from town to town
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| And now he’s selling clothes at the Big &Tall store
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| Little Drummer Boy had a hard time
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| Just deciding what he wanted to be
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| He’s a fat and lazy dirty wreck, just cashing unemployment checks
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| And now I hear he’s working at the library…
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| But hey It’s a job, as they say
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| A lot of work, for a little pay
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| And I only have one wish this Christmas day…
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| Workin’in the coal mine, Santa Claus
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| Got a great big belly gettin’stuck in the wall
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| Got a dirty beard and a nasty cough, from
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| Workin’in the coal mine, Santa Claus
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| St. Nick Where’d ya go?
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| This Christmastime we’re all so low
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| We need to know St Nick
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| Where’d ya go?
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| Santa Claus is workin’as a coal miner
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| Mrs. Claus is livin’off of tips at a diner
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| The elves are in a sweatshop making jacket liners, oh no!
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| Rudolph’s whole career took a nosedive
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| Hanging out in seedy places at night
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| Now he spends his days making minimum wage
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| As the world’s first Living Traffic Light
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| Scrooge is bumming change off of shoppers
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| With a bucket and a donation bell
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| And in the finest twist of Whoville theater
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| The Grinch got a job as a Wal-Mart greeter
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| There’s nothing but coal in Santa’s sack
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| But he’s tightening up his belt and has a plan of attack
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| «I'm no good at this job, and my lungs are black
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| I swear this time next year I’ll have my workshop back
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| Next year I’ll be opening my workshop back
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| 'Cause all I want for Christmas is my old job…» |