A Christmas Carol-Tom Lehrer

[ti:A Christmas Carol] [ar:Tom Lehrer] [al:The Very Best of Tom Lehrer] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.53]One very familiar type of song [00:02.66]Is the christmas carol [00:03.71]Although it is perhaps a bit out [00:04.92]Of season at this time However [00:06.53]I'm informed by my "Disk jockey" [00:08.23]Friends of whom I have none [00:10.02] [00:11.30]In order to get a song [00:12.24]Popular by christmas time [00:13.44] [00:13.99]You have to start plugging it well in advance [00:16.20]So here goes [00:17.27]It has always seemed to me after all [00:19.18]That christmas with it's spirit of giving o [00:22.61]Us all a wonderful opportunity [00:23.89]Each year to reflect on [00:25.05]What we all most sincerely and deeply believe in [00:27.74]I refer of course to money [00:29.38] [00:30.88]And yet none of the christmas carols [00:34.09]That you hear on the radio or in the street [00:36.61]Even attempt to capture the true [00:38.56]Spirit of christmas as we celebrate it in the unit [00:43.56]Ates That is to say the commercial spirit [00:47.54] [00:48.20]So I should like to offer [00:49.56]The following christmas carol for next year [00:51.35]As being perhaps a bit more appropriate [00:53.19] [00:59.70]Christmas time is here by golly [01:01.38]Disapproval would be folly [01:03.11] [01:03.65]Deck the halls with hunks of holly [01:05.66]Fill the cup and don't say "When " [01:07.56] [01:08.47]Kill the turkeys ducks and chickens [01:10.79]Mix the punch drag out the dickens [01:13.15]Even though the prospect sickens [01:15.17]Brother here we go again [01:17.66] [01:19.48]On christmas day you can't get sore [01:21.67]Your fellow man you must adore [01:23.68]There's time to rob him all the more [01:26.19]The other three hundred and sixty four [01:29.77] [01:30.42]Relations sparing no expense'll [01:32.98]Send some useless old utensil [01:35.15]Or a matching pen and pencil [01:37.25]"Just the thing I need How nice " [01:39.47] [01:40.38]It doesn't matter how sincere it [01:42.87]Is nor how heartfelt the spirit [01:45.03]Sentiment will not endear it [01:47.11]What's important is the price [01:49.77] [01:51.11]Hark the herald tribune sings [01:55.30] [01:55.94]Advertising wondrous things [01:59.15] [01:59.97]God rest ye merry merchants [02:01.98]May you make the yuletide pay [02:04.37] [02:07.31]Angels we have heard on high [02:11.55]Tell us to go out and buy [02:14.87] [02:15.44]So let the raucous sleigh bells jingle [02:20.12]Hail our dear old friend kris kringle [02:22.35]Driving his reindeer across the sky [02:25.07] [02:26.25]Don't stand underneath when they fly by [02:29.82] [02:32.09]A Christmas Carol - Tom Lehrer