A Christmas Carol-Tom Lehrer

[ti:A Christmas Carol] [ar:Tom Lehrer] [al:In Concert] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]A Christmas Carol (圣诞颂歌) - Tom Lehrer [00:00.46]One very familiar type of song is the christmas carol [00:03.81]Although it is perhaps a bit out of season at this time [00:05.72]However I'm informed by my disk jockey friends [00:08.94]Of whom I have none [00:10.04] [00:10.55]In order to get a song popular by christmas time [00:13.60] [00:14.15]You have to start plugging it well in advance [00:16.18]So here goes it has always seemed to me after all [00:18.80] [00:19.41]That christmas with its spirit of giving [00:21.48] [00:22.33]Us all a wonderful opportunity each year to reflect [00:24.90] [00:25.41]On what we all most sincerely and deeply believe in [00:28.03]I refer of course to money [00:29.54] [00:31.26]And yet none of the christmas carols [00:34.12]That you hear on the radio or in the street [00:36.14] [00:36.86]Even attempt to capture the true spirit of christmas [00:39.64] [00:41.55]As we celebrate it in the Unitstates [00:44.45] [00:45.73]That is to say the commercial spirit [00:47.96] [00:48.62]So I should like to offer the following christmas [00:50.71]Carol for next year [00:51.79]As being perhaps a bit more appropriate [00:53.50] [00:59.67]Christmas time is here by golly [01:01.61]Disapproval would be folly [01:03.52] [01:04.03]Deck the halls with hunks of holly [01:06.12]Fill the cup and don't say when [01:08.04] [01:08.85]Kill the turkeys ducks and chickens [01:11.20]Mix the punch drag out the dickens [01:13.60]Even though the prospect sickens [01:15.76]Brother here we go again [01:18.35] [01:19.71]On christmas day you can't get sore [01:22.21]Your fellow man you must adore [01:24.30]Theres time to rob him all the more [01:26.66]The other three hundred and sixty-four [01:30.33] [01:31.02]Relations sparing no expensell [01:33.69]Send some useless old utensil [01:35.49] [01:36.03]Or a matching pen and pencil [01:37.92]Just the thing I need how nice [01:40.16] [01:41.20]It does't matter how sincere it [01:43.49]Is nor how heartfelt the spirit [01:45.29] [01:45.86]Sentiment will not endear it [01:48.10]What's important is the price [01:50.65] [01:51.83]Hark the herald tribune sings [01:56.14] [01:56.80]Advertising wondrous things [01:59.80] [02:00.81]God rest ye merry merchants [02:02.36]May you make the yuletide pay [02:04.96] [02:08.18]Angels we have heard on high [02:12.23]Tell us to go out and buy [02:15.67] [02:16.38]So let the raucous sleigh bells jingle [02:20.98]Hail our dear old friend kris kringle [02:23.31]Driving his reindeer across the sky [02:26.37] [02:27.18]Don't stand underneath when they fly by [02:30.62] [02:45.25]Actually I did rather well myself [02:46.71]This last christmas [02:47.67] [02:48.20]The nicest present I received was a gift certificate [02:51.39]Good at any hospital for a lobotomy [02:53.71] [02:58.85]Rather thoughtful now