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by Capital Lights


Capital Lights - His Favorite Christmas Story

Chorus 1: 
                              
He met her up in Delaware in 1937
                                                  
She was wearing red lipstick to match her pretty dress
                                                                      
December 24th at a quarter till eleven is when he finally gained the 
            
courage to ask her to dance

         (4X)

Verse 1:
                                                        
It was the night before Christmas, it was love at first sight
                                                
The carolers sang as they danced through the night
                                            
She was a small town girl, he was a traveling guy
                                                     
He never caught her name before they said their goodbyes
                                       
A couple years later he was out on the road
                                   
Having Christmas dinner in a diner alone
                                                
When he saw a young waitress with a gleam in her eye
                                                        
Her favorite day of the year she showed her spirits were high
                                          
She said sir can you shed a little holiday cheer
                                              
A simple Christmas story was all she wanted to hear
                                                                     
He looked prepared with a smile as he started to say here’s my favorite 
                         
Christmas story about a girl with no name

        

Chorus  2:
                                      
He said I met her up in Delaware in 1937
                                                
She was wearing red lipstick to match her pretty dress
                                           
December 24th at a quarter till eleven is when I               
                                         
finally gained the courage to ask her to dance


Verse 2:
                                                                         
Every holiday season as he traveled he’d 
                
tell about his Christmas dance 
                             
partner that he never knew well
                                                
He’d share his favorite story with the locals he met
                                                    
He was called the Christmas story tellin traveling man

       

                               
By age 53 he had done settled down
                                               
All the neighborhood kids liked to gather around
                                                                 
Just to listen to his stories about his life on the road
                                     
All he had now were these children he told
                                                
And every Christmas eve they showed up before dark
                                               
He’d tell them all the story but they knew it by heart
                                                     
They could quote it word for word, he always told it the same.
                                               
It was his favorite Christmas story called the girl with no name


Chorus  2


          (3X)          

Verse  3:
                                     
Twenty years later as he took his last breath
                                               
It was on a cold Christmas morning on a hospital bed
                                     
The children were grown, he had nobody left
                                     
Except the little old nurse who was holding his hand
                                                                    
He said Ma’am can you share a little holiday cheer
                                               
A simple Christmas story was all he wanted to hear
                                                 
But his eyes filled with tears at the words that she spoke
                                          
Because his favorite Christmas story was the one that she told


Chorus 3:
                                        
She said I met him up in Delaware in 1937
                                               
Though I never caught his name he was a traveling man
                           
December 24th at a quarter till eleven
                                        
I’m so glad he got the courage to ask me to dance.