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by Misc Christmas


CHRISTMAS
by Blues Traveller
from "A Very Special Christmas III"

                               
Comes the time for Christmas
                               
And I really have to ask
                               
If this is feeling merry
                               
How much longer must it last?

                               
I wish a one horse open sleigh
                               
Would come carry me away
                               
But I've been waiting here all day
                               
And one just hasn't come my way

                               
Now excuse me if I'm not being reverent
                                 
But I was hoping for a miracle to hold me, wash me
                               
Save me from my righteous doubt 
                        
as I watch helpless, and everybody sings

                               
If it's Chanukah or Kwanza
                                 
Solstice, harvest or December twenty-fifth
                              
Peace on earth to everyone
                               
And abundance to everyone you're with
   
                            
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Comes the time for Christmas
                               
And as you raise your Yuletide flask
                                 
There's like this feeling that you carry
                               
As if from every Christmas past
                   
                       
It's as if each year it grows
                                                        
It's like you feel it in your toes
                                            
And on and on your carol goes
                               
Harvesting love among your woes
                
                          
I want to buy into the benevolent
                                 
And I was hoping for a miracle to hold me, wash me
                               
Make me know what it's about
                               
As the longing in me makes me want to sing
      
                         
Noel or Navidad
                               
Season celebration or just the end of the year
                               
Christmas can mean anything
                               
And I mean to keep its hope forever near

 
Repeat la's....

                                     
As if a cold and frozen soul is warm to love
                               
By loves own hand
                               
So goes the prayer if for a day peace on earth
                               
And good will to man
 
                                   
At twenty below the winter storm it billows
                                    
But the fire is so warm inside
                                      
And the children while nestled in their pillows
                               
Dream of St. Nicholas's ride

                                            
And how the next day they'll get up and they will play
                                 
In the still falling Christmas snow
                                       
And together we'll celebrate forever
                                   
In defiance of the winds that blow

                                    
My god in heaven now I feel like I'm seven
                                   
And the spirit calls to me as well
                                                                
As if Christmas had made the winter warmer
                                   
Made a paradise from what was hell
                       
                                     
As if a cold and frozen soul is warm to love
                               
By loves own hand
                               
So goes the prayer if for a day peace on earth
                                          
And good will to man.......
 
(verses repeat with harmonica, etc.)
                              

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