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| Remake of "Blue Christmas (To Whom It May Concern) [Columbia, 1962] from the Christmas compilation album "Yule Be Boppin'" (Blue Note, 1997). (Stavro Arrgolus) |
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Where's that shopping list?
I thought it was on the table
Think we need more ribbon and maybe a roll of shopping wrapping paper
Now the toy store closes at nine; I'll be getting something for the neighbor
You know I confess, I could do without this mess
It's really a lot of stress...and I'll never be ready
Makes me want to forget the whole idea
I guess Dickens said it best..."Bah Humbug!"
Monkey's in a barrel and that Christmas music's driving me craaaazy!
Blue Christmas, that's the way you see it when you're feeling blue
Blue Xmas, when you're blue at Christmastime
you see right through,
All the sham, all the haste, all the waste
and plain old bad taste
Sidewalk Santa Clauses are much, much, much too thin
Wearing fancy rented costumes, false beards and phony grins
And everybody's standing round holding out their empty hand or tin cup
Gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme
Fill my stocking up
All the way up
It's a time when the greedy give a dime to the needy
Blue Christmas, all the paper, tinsel and the fal-de-ral
Blue Xmas, people trading gifts that matter not at all
Fal-de-ral
What I call
Fal-de-ral
.......Fal-de-ral
Lots of hungry, homeless children in your own backyard
While you're very, very busy addressing
Twenty zillion Christmas cards
Now, Yuletide is the season to receive and give and ahh, to share
But all you December do-gooders rush around and loudly rant and rave and blare
Merry Christmas
I hope you have a bright one, but for me, it's blue
(instrumental interval)
And now it over
Streets full of garbage
And another Happy New Year's come and gone
And they're taking back the presents
that they never really wanted
and business is as usual going on
Well I'm disgusted and I'm walkin'
My credit card's exhausted
and I see a stripped down Christmas tree in the gutter
And I wonder about the trouble and the pain and anxiety
experienced by some poor single struggling mother
trying to bring some Christmas cheer to the children
Charity begins in January
It should carry on down to December
So remember when you say...
Merry Christmas
I hope yours is a bright one, but for me, it's blue (Stavro Arrgolus) |
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