How Did We Live Before Christmas?-Mark Lowry

[ti:How Did We Live Before Christmas?] [ar:Mark Lowry] [al:Mary, Did You Know?] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]How Did We Live Before Christmas? - Mark Lowry [00:05.11]Christmas comes but once a year [00:07.26]But what if it came more often [00:09.16]It would bankrupt the economy [00:11.16]Snow would surely wreck the ecology [00:13.04] [00:13.70]Kids would sing Jingle Bells till we're up a tree [00:16.94]And drive us to an early coffin [00:18.77] [00:19.42]Christmas is a yearly thing [00:21.41]And I'm really glad that it's so [00:23.64]If it came around every other week [00:25.72]We'd be so tired we could hardly speak [00:28.82]Our checkbooks would be up a creek [00:31.29]And we'd have to shorten ole Santa to just one "Ho " [00:33.90] [00:34.62]Yes once a year it rolls around [00:36.76]On the 25th day of December [00:39.10]Bringing cheery songs with cheery rhymes [00:41.92]And shopping sprees that pass the time [00:44.91]We have to stand in those weary lines [00:47.28] [00:47.95]And there's always someone I forget to remember [00:50.27] [00:51.32]But think with me for just a while [00:53.97]Of a time before there was Christmas [00:56.18] [00:57.43]The time before the angels sang [00:59.50] [01:00.35]The time before the wise men came [01:02.78] [01:03.54]The time before we knew His name [01:06.12] [01:07.10]How did we live before Christmas [01:08.98] [01:09.84]The days before the stars so bright [01:12.71]The years before that Silent Night [01:15.26] [01:15.89]Before the Savior brought the light [01:18.30] [01:18.94]How did we live before Christmas [01:20.93] [01:21.85]Did little children ever sing [01:23.55] [01:24.18]Did silver bells refuse to ring [01:26.32] [01:26.87]Did Hosannahs ever crown the king [01:29.22] [01:29.80]How did we live before Christmas [01:32.12] [01:32.93]Did winter's chill make faces glow [01:35.02] [01:35.71]Did lovers kiss neath mistletoe [01:38.06] [01:38.84]Try as I might I'll never know [01:41.29] [01:42.04]How did we live before Christmas [01:43.96] [01:45.31]A virgin bore the blessed gift of Christmas long ago [01:48.82] [01:49.61]All heaven wrapped in swaddling clothes [01:53.73]Pure Deity from head to toe [01:56.13] [01:56.75]A baby boy with heaven's glow [02:00.36] [02:00.90]How did we live before Christmas [02:02.98] [02:04.35]So Christmas isn't gifts and toys [02:07.59]Or waiting on St Nicholas [02:09.15] [02:09.93]Christmas is a Savior's birth [02:13.07]A gift from heaven sent to earth [02:15.97] [02:16.70]To show the world just what it's worth [02:20.27] [02:22.32]How did we live before Christmas