Getting Ready For Christmas Day-Paul Simon

[ti:Getting Ready For Christmas Da] [ar:Paul Simon] [al:So Beautiful or So What] [by:] [offset:0] [00:32.29]From early in November [00:33.66]To the last week of December [00:36.10]I got money matters weighing me down [00:39.73]Oh the music may be merry [00:41.54]But it's only temporary [00:43.79]I know Santa Claus is coming to town [00:47.54]In the days I work my day job [00:49.67]In the nights I work my night [00:51.54]But it all comes down to working man's pay [00:55.35]Getting ready I'm getting ready [00:58.67]Ready for Christmas Day [01:03.73]Getting ready for Christmas Day [01:05.67]And let me tell you namely [01:07.73]The undertaker he's getting ready for your body [01:11.54]Not only that the jailer he's getting ready for you [01:17.48]Christmas day Hmm And not only the jailer [01:22.23]But the lawyer the police force [01:24.85]Now getting ready for Christmas day [01:28.42]And I want you to bear it in mind [01:32.73]I got a nephew in Iraq [01:35.98]It's his third time back [01:37.92]But it's ending up the way it began [01:41.11] [01:41.73]With the luck of a beginner [01:43.42]He'll be eating turkey dinner [01:45.92]On some mountain top in Pakistan [01:49.42]Getting ready oh we're getting ready [01:57.17]For the power and the glory [01:59.23]And the story of the Christmas day [02:03.55]Getting ready for Christmas day [02:06.36]Done made it up in your mind that I'm going [02:09.79]New York Philadelphia Chicago [02:13.48]I'm going on a trip getting ready [02:17.79]For Christmas day [02:19.36]But when Christmas come [02:21.05]Nobody knows where you'll be [02:24.48]You might ask me [02:27.98]I may be layin' in some lonesome grave [02:31.48]Getting ready for Christmas day [02:47.04] [02:51.42]Getting ready oh we're getting ready [02:58.92]For the power and the glory [03:01.17]And the story of the Christmas day [03:06.30]Yes we're getting ready [03:08.73]Getting ready ready for your prayers [03:11.30]I'm going and see my relatives in a distant land [03:16.42]Getting ready getting ready for Christmas day [03:21.17]If I could tell my Mom and Dad [03:24.17]That the things we never had [03:26.11]Never mattered we were always okay [03:30.23]Getting ready oh ready for Christmas day [03:37.48] [03:39.17]Ready getting ready [03:45.48]For the power and the glory [03:47.67]And the story of the Christmas day