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by Blues Traveler


"Christmas" by Blues Traveler
>From the album "A Very Special Christmas"


		                                    
Comes the time for Christmas, and I really have to ask
                                              
If this is feeling merry, how much longer must it last
                                                          
I wish your one-horse open sleigh, would come and 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 your with

CHORUS:                                     
         La Laaaa La La La La…             Laaaaaa

		                                               
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 benevolence, 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 CHORUS

                                                          
As if a cold and frozen soul was warmed, to love, by love’s own hand
                                                          
So goes the prayer, if for a day peace on Earth, and good will to men 

                                                                       
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’ 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 warmed, to love, by love’s own hand
                                                          
So goes the prayer, if for a day peace on Earth, and good will to men

Mixed Verses

                                                         
Comes a time for Christmas, and I can not help but ask…
Twenty below, the winter storm it billows, but the fire is so warm inside…
                                              
If this is feeling merry, how much longer must it last
The children while nestled in their pillows, dream of St. Nicholas’ ride
                                                              
I wish your one-horse open sleigh, would come carry me away…
Comes a time for Christmas, and I can not help but ask…
                                                            
But I've been waiting here all day, and one just hasn’t come my way
If this is feeling merry, how much longer must it last
                                                                    
It’s as if each year it grows, it’s like you feel it in your toes
Comes a time for Christmas, and I can not help but ask…
Now excuse me if I’m not being reverent, but I was hoping for a miracle…
My God in Heaven, now I feel like I’m seven…
                                                       
And on and on your carol grows, harvesting love among your woes
If this is feeling merry, how much longer must it last
Save me from my righteous doubt, as I watch helpless…
                                                     
Oh Chanukah Oh Kwanza, Solstice Harvest or December twenty fifth…
Comes a time for Christmas, and I can not help but ask…
I wish your one-horse open sleigh, would come carry me away…
La Laaaa La La La La, La La La La La La La La, La La…  
                                                       
Peace on Earth to everyone, and abundance to everyone your with
If this is feeling merry, how much longer must it last
But I've been waiting here all day, and one just hasn’t come my way
                                                   
Hark! The Herald Angels sing            Glory to the newborn King
Mix in other verses                     Mix in other verses
                                                   
Peace on Earth and mercy mild           God and sinners reconciled
Mix in other verses                     Mix in other verses
                                                   
Hark! The Herald Angels sing            Glory to the newborn King
Mix in other verses                     Mix in other verses
                                                   
Peace on Earth and mercy mild           God and sinners reconciled
Mix in other verses                     Mix in other verses


OUTRO

                                                      
I wish your one-horse open sleigh, would come carry me away
                                                             
And I'll keep waiting through next May, until Christmas comes my way