Christmas Rappin'-Kurtis Blow

[ti:Rappin' Blow] [ar:Kurtis Blow] [al:The Best of Kurtis Blow 20th Century Masters] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Christmas Rappin' - Kurtis Blow (柯蒂斯·布楼) [00:00.86]Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house [00:03.82]Hold it now Wait hold it That's played out Hit it [00:11.98]Don't you give me all that jive about things you wrote before I's alive [00:16.02]Cause this ain't 1823 -- ain't even 1970 [00:20.32]Now I'm the guy named Kurtis Blow and Christmas is one thing I know [00:24.75]So every year just about this time I celebrate it with a rhyme [00:28.85] [00:33.58]Gonna shake it gonna bake it gonna make it good [00:35.97]Gonna rock shock clock it through your neighbourhood [00:37.56]Gonna read gonna sing it till it's understood [00:39.68]My rappin' bout to happen like a knee you've been slapping [00:41.82]Or a toe you've been tapping on a hunk of wood [00:44.06] [00:46.33]Bout a red-suited dude with a friendly attitude [00:47.83]And a sleigh full of goodies for for the people on the block [00:50.48]Got a long white beard maybe looks kind a weird [00:52.68]And if you ever see him he could give you quite a shock [00:54.87] [00:59.44]Now people let me tell ya bout last year [01:01.19]When the dude came flying over here [01:02.89]Well the hog was out snow's on the ground [01:05.15]Folks stayed in to party down [01:07.67]The beat was thumping on the box and I was dancing in my socks [01:11.86]And the drummer played at a solid pace [01:14.17] [01:16.27]And a taste of the bass was in my face [01:20.53] [01:22.98]And the guitar player layed down a heavy layer [01:24.82]Of the funky junky rhythm of the disco beat [01:31.55]And the guy with the 88's started to participate [01:33.49]And I could sure appreciate a sound so sweat [01:40.27]We were all in the mood so we had a little food [01:42.27]And a joke and a smoke and a little bit of wine [01:44.33]When I thought I heard a hoof on the top of the roof [01:46.64]Could it be or was it me I was feeling super fine [01:48.52]So I went to your attic where I thought heard the static [01:50.58]On the chance that the prance was somebody breaking in [01:52.72]But the noise on the top was a reindeer clop [01:54.88]Just a trick St Nick and I let the sucker in [02:06.27]He was roly he was poly and I said "Holy moly [02:08.26]You got a lot of whiskers on your chinny chin chin" [02:10.17]He allowed he was proud of the hairy little crowd [02:12.00]On the point of his jaw where the skin should've been [02:14.15]Gets cool for a fool going out every Yule [02:16.52]For a day on a sleigh when the cold went low [02:18.71]So the beard may be weird but I'll never have it sheared [02:20.95]Cause it's warm in the storm when it's ten below [02:22.90] [02:27.40]I said "You're right it's cold tonight [02:29.40]But can you stop for a drop before you go " [02:31.59]He said "Why not if the music's hot [02:33.61]And I'll chance a dance beneath the mistletoe" [02:35.87]So he went downstairs and forgot his guests [02:37.86]And he rocked the spot and danced like a pro [02:40.25]And every young girl tried to rock his world [02:42.19]But he boogie oogie oogied til he had to go [02:48.90]And before he went this fine old gent [02:50.74]Brought a gift with a sift through his big red bags [02:52.98]In the top or the bottom he reached in and got 'em [02:55.35]Toys for the boys for the girls glad rags [02:57.42] [03:01.75]And the grownups got some presents too [03:03.63]A new TV and a stereo [03:05.81]A new Seville bout as blue as the sky [03:07.94]The best that money couldn't buy [03:10.07]Cause money could never ever buy the feeling [03:12.19]The one that comes from not concealing [03:14.41]The way you you feel about your friends [03:16.55]And this is how the story ends [03:20.60] [03:23.37]The dude in red's back at the Pole [03:25.19]Up north where everything is cold [03:26.45] [03:27.62]But if he were right here tonight [03:29.37]He'd say Merry Christmas and to all a good night