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John Prine lyrics
John Prine Christmas lyrics
Pretty paper
Pretty ribbons of blue.
(spoken) Man oh man,
I just love Christmas
it's just so darn neat.
I kinda wish every day was Christmas,
except Christmas eve and the Fourth of July.
We wouldn't want to miss out on the fireworks, would we?
When I was a kid, we used to get the Christmas catalog from Montgomery Wards in Chicago.
Sometimes we'd get it as early as late August.
It was the big book of wishes, hopes and desires.
My three brothers and I were allotted twenty-five bucks a piece, including tax.
So I'd make up a different Christmas list every night
from the first of September 'til the twenty-forth of December.
Matter of fact, let me present you with my Christmas credentials.
When I was three years old, at least that's what my mother told me,
I ate an entire ornament. I ate a big red one, I thought it was an apple.
They kinda freaked out and was gonna take me to the hospital
but they couldn't stop me from laughing so they just left me alone.
So I guess I still got that Christmas in me all the time, you know?
One year, I got a wooden Roly-Poly for Christmas,
you know the things you knock down and they bounce right back up.
They made 'em out of wood back then, that's how old I am.
Nowadays, they make 'em out of plastic.
My mom says ";they just don't make 'em like that anymore";. And I says, ";no ma they don't";.
Then there was the year I came home only eave from the army,
from Germany to marry my highschool sweetheart on the day after Christmas.
My little brother Billy, who was twelve at the time,
had just gotten his first job so he was able to afford to buy some Christmas presents
for his brothers and his mom and dad out of his own pocket.
Billy had a job selling subscriptions for the Chicago Tribune.
He told me this guy named Rocky would pick him up in a station wagon,
him and some other boys, and he'd take 'em out to some strange neighborhood
and drop 'em off and he gave them this whole spiel to give their potential customers.
Supposedly their little brother had won a free trip to our nation's capital Washington, D.C.,
but he couldn't go on the trip if his older brother wouldn't accompany him
so if you would please buy a subscription to the Chicago Tribune then my little brother will be happy.
Wow, what a shyster! Some people'll do anything to get to the Whitehouse.
Then there was the year that my mom and dad gave me my first guitar.
Ah man it was gorgeous, I still got the thing.
It was a like aqua blue. Kinda dark aqua blue with a cream colored heart. Was a Silvertone from Montgomery Wards. The model was called Kentucky Blue and man when I saw that sitting under the tree I just couldn't wait.
First year so I didn't know how to play it,
I'd just stand in from of the mirror with a string around my neck with that guitar and I'd try to look like Elvis.
Then my brother Dave taught me a couple of chords,
now I'm here in your living room singing and talking to you.
It's funny how things work out.
So-a whyn't you go find a stranger and extend your hand to 'em.
If you see somebody looks like they ain't doin' quite as well as you, slip 'em a buck,
'specially if they don't ask for spare change.
Go buy your honey a cuckoo clock or a musical snow shaking water ball,
that when you wind it up it plays,
";I want you, I need you, I love ya with all my heart.";
'cause after all, hell man, it's Christmas.
Away in a manger no crib for a bed.
The little Lord Jesus lay down his sweet head.
The stars in the sky look down where he lay.
The little Lord Jesus asleep on the (1-2) hay.
(spoken) Merry Christmas Everybody.
(words finally transcribed by fancy nancy)
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Angel From Montgomery lyrics
Donald and Lydia lyrics
Flashback Blues lyrics
Spanish Pipedream (AKA Blow Up Your TV) lyrics
Hello In There lyrics
Pretty Good lyrics
Your Flag Decal Won't Get You Into Heaven Anymore lyrics
Far From Me lyrics
Quiet Man lyrics
Six O'clock News lyrics
The Torch Singer lyrics
Souvenirs lyrics
Sour Grapes lyrics
Billy the Bum lyrics
The Frying Pan lyrics
They Oughta Name a Drink After You lyrics
Take the Star Out of the Window lyrics
Clocks and Spoons lyrics
Rocky Mountain Time lyrics
Diamonds in the Rough lyrics
Everybody lyrics
The Great Compromise lyrics
Sweet Revenge lyrics
Dear Abby lyrics
Blue Umbrella lyrics
Often Is A Word I Seldom Use lyrics
Onomatopoeia lyrics
Mexican Home lyrics
A Good Time lyrics
Nine Pound Hammer lyrics
Please Don't Bury Me lyrics
Grandpa Was A Carpenter lyrics
The Accident (Things Could Be Worse) lyrics
Common Sense lyrics
Wedding Day In Funeralville lyrics
Way Down lyrics
My Own Best Friend lyrics
Saddle in the Rain lyrics
That Close To You lyrics
He Was In Heaven Before He Died lyrics
Middle Man lyrics
Come Back to Us Barbara Lewis Hare Krishna Beauregard lyrics
Forbidden Jimmy lyrics
You Never Can Tell lyrics
There She Goes lyrics
If You Don't Want My Love lyrics
That's the Way that the World Goes 'Round lyrics
Sabu Visits the Twin Cities Alone lyrics
Aw Heck lyrics
Crooked Piece of Time lyrics
Iron Ore Betty lyrics
The Hobo Song lyrics
Bruised Orange (Chain of Sorrows) lyrics
Chinatown lyrics
Automobile lyrics
Killing The Blues lyrics
No Name Girl lyrics
Saigon lyrics
This Cold War With You lyrics
Baby Let's Play House lyrics
How Lucky lyrics
Ubangi Stomp lyrics
Fish And Whistle lyrics
Down By The Side Of The Road lyrics
Shop Talk lyrics
It's Happening To You lyrics
Sleepy Eyed Boy lyrics
All Night Blue lyrics
Just Wanna Be With You lyrics
Baby Ruth lyrics
One Red Rose lyrics
I Had A Dream lyrics
Living In The Future lyrics
Be My Friend Tonight lyrics
Aimless Love lyrics
Me, Myself, and I lyrics
The Oldest Baby In The World lyrics
Slow Boat To China lyrics
Maureen Maureen lyrics
Somewhere Someone's Falling In Love lyrics
People Puttin' People Down lyrics
Only Love lyrics
The Bottomless Lake lyrics
Lulu Walls lyrics
Speed of the Sound of Loneliness lyrics
Out of Love lyrics
German Afternoons lyrics
If She Were You lyrics
Linda Goes To Mars lyrics
I Just Wanna Dance With You lyrics
Love, Love, Love lyrics
Bad Boy lyrics
They'll Never Take Her Love From Me lyrics
Paradise lyrics
Lets Talk Dirty in Hawaiian lyrics
Everybody Wants to Feel Like You lyrics
It's A Big Old Goofy World lyrics
I Want To Be With You Always lyrics
Take a Look at My Heart lyrics
Great Rain lyrics
Way Back Then lyrics
Unlonely lyrics
The Sins of Memphisto lyrics
Silent Night, All Day Long lyrics
Silver Bells lyrics
I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus lyrics
Christmas In Prison lyrics
All The Best lyrics
Everything Is Cool lyrics
If You Were the Woman and I was the Man lyrics
New Train lyrics
All The Way With You lyrics
Day Is Done lyrics
Big Fat Love lyrics
Same Thing Happened To Me lyrics
This Love Is Real lyrics
Leave the Lights On lyrics
I Love You So Much It Hurts lyrics
Ain't Hurtin' Nobody lyrics
We Are the Lonely lyrics
He Forgot That It Was Sunday lyrics
Daddy's Little Pumpkin lyrics
Humidity Built The Snowman lyrics
If I Could lyrics
Illegal Smile lyrics
Picture Show lyrics
Quit Hollerin' At Me lyrics
Stick a Needle In My Eye lyrics
Storm Windows lyrics
The Late John Garfield Blues lyrics
You Got Gold lyrics
You Mean So Much To Me lyrics
Jesus The Missing Years lyrics
Lake Marie lyrics
Space Monkey lyrics
Unwed Fathers lyrics
(We're Not) The Jet Set lyrics
So Sad (To Watch Good Love Go Bad) lyrics
Milwaukee Here I Come lyrics
I Know One lyrics
It's a Cheating Situation lyrics
Back Street Affair lyrics
Loose Talk lyrics
Let's Invite Them Over lyrics
'Til a Tear Becomes a Rose lyrics
In A Town This Size lyrics
We Could lyrics
We Must Have Been Out Of Our Minds lyrics
In Spite of Ourselves lyrics
Wedding Bells\Let's Turn Back the Years lyrics
When Two Worlds Collide lyrics
Dear John (I Sent Your Saddle Home) lyrics
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