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Holiday songs on the radio (can you hear them play?) / jingle everywhere you go (it's almost Christmas
Day) / signals fly through the air / music is everywhere / carolers are out in the street (now it's Christmas Eve) / songs of
happiness and peace (can you hear them sing?) / voices in the night air / beauty is everywhere / churchbells toll across the
town (now it's Christmas time) / joyful, sacred Christmas sounds (can you hear them chime?) / choirs sing in the night /
hymns sung by candlelight.
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Candy Corn at Christmas
02:15
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Remember back at Halloween, running through the streets /
pumpkin pails and pillowcases filled up to the brink / I dressed as a butterfly and flew from door to door / gathering sweet
fun-sized nectar, oh my pumpkin overflowed with / Butterfinger, Snickers, Caramello, Milky Way / how I hoped my stash
would last 'til Independence Day / now the air is cold and my supplies are running low / a squirrel dug up the Chunky I had
buried in the snow / though I've rationed carefully, the good stuff is all gone / at the bottom of my mocking jack-o-lantern all
I've got is / Jolly Ranchers, Dum-Dums, Smarties, Tootsie Rolls and pops / while you're singing Deck the Halls with boughs
of holly and O Tennenbaum, I'll be singing / candy corn at Christmas, candy corn at Christmas, yellow white and orange on
the tree / candy corn at Christmas, Swedish Fish and Swiss Miss, everybody sing along with me.
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Christmas at the Movies
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At Christmas,
look for me / watching the stars on the big silver screen / love is magic, the movies say / I know real life doesn't work quite
that way / but love is real / if it's a dream, come true for me / I brought Christmas cookies I made at home / I don't really mind
seeing movies alone / here in the front row it's not so bad / I bet sometimes even Matt Damon feels sad / after the credits,
December's cold / the cinema's home to so many tired souls / so Merry Christmas, I'll be around / with stars in my eyes as
the house lights go down.
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Christmas in the Car
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Headlamps light up the snow like driving through starfields silent and cold / driving through the
dark trees, kids in the backseat have fallen asleep / night, oh magic night, before the morning we awake / Christmas comes
at dawn and after miles of interstate / celebrate the season anywhere you are / raise your travel mugs, it's Christmas in the
car / my wife is trying to rest on a folded coat, she's doing her best / jackets, napkins and snacks, a small crowded car
through wintry black / now in solemn quiet, peace and wonder fill my mind / sacred little moments can still happen any time.
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Dance Like Snoopy
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I don't think I'll ever fall asleep / it's like my mind is a hive of bees / all those presents underneath the
Christmas tree / oh morning, won't you come to me / won't you come to me / all year long I've been such a good and patient
boy / and I swear, I swear, it's not just about the toys / I wanna sing, I wanna shout for joy / I wanna celebrate, and I just can't
wait anymore / I'm gonna lose it / I'm going loopy / I wanna dance like Snoopy!
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Just Like Santa
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In my
reindeer sweatshirt I'll stay up 'til midnight tonight / watching Home Alone 2 with a ball of cheese and a box of wine / I've
been waiting all year for the eggnog to hit the stores / I swept out the fireplace just to make some gingerbread s'mores / I
get so lonely, I get so lonely, just like Santa / I've been walking out late, through the neighborhood in the snow / I made two
snow angels holding hands beneath plastic mistletoe / I won't put an orange in my stocking / please don't remind me of
Summer's warmth / give me Christmas, give me ice and beauty / won't you take the chill from my hands with yours?
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Mighty Mississippi
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Frozen city on the Mississippi / Mighty Mississippi, won't you carry my home?
I've never been so cold, tired or alone / southern small town / where my heart may still be found / I know it's Christmas
everywhere / but Saint Paul's stripping my heart bare / Mighty Mississippi, won't you carry me home? water rolling / distant
churchbells tolling / icy, dark days / wandering under the skyways / the streets are blanketed in snow / just leaving foot-
prints, no place to go / night and snow fall / not a soul on the streets at all / on this still night, lonely folks cast back their
minds / as they spill out of the bars / their breath rising to the stars.
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The Christmas Zither
02:50
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From Decembers long ago / memories pure as the fallen snow / Oh,
Holy Nights / happy faces, twinkling lights / all the family's gathered 'round / listening to the glorious sound / Grandma plays
the Christmas Zither / Grandpa's singing along with her / let your voices rise and sing along / let that zither ring! sing a
Christmas song / Silent Night and Auld Lang Syne fill the air at Christmastime / stories from the ancient stable / we all sing
as we are able / through the windows flocked with white, voices sail into the night / as the family joins together / carols sung
to Grandma's Zither.
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New Year's Tears
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We're moving through a crowded
party / hand-in-hand, we step onto the balcony / the city's glowing all around you / we're both shivering, and you're looking
right at me / ooh, New Year's Eve with you / inside the party's loud as ever / let's stay awhile longer, talking in the cold / we'll
tell each other little stories / where we've been, where we'd still like to go / snowflakes falling in the dark / let the new year
start / wipe those old tears away, it's almost New Year's Day / suddenly everything is quiet / inside they're counting down to
zero, glasses raised / the room erupts in cheers and singing / people are kissing, it's another New Year's Day / snowflakes
melting in your hair / love is everywhere / wipe those old tears away look around, it's New Year's Day.
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