Lyrics
Merry Christmas
I hope you have a bright one, but for me, it's blue
Blue Christmas
That's the way you see it when you're feeling blue
Blue Xmas
When you're blue at Christmas time, you see right through
All the waste, all the sham, all the haste
And plain ol' bad taste
Sidewalk Santy Clauses are much, much, much too thin
They're wearing fancy rented costumes
False beards and big fat phony grins
And nearly everybody's standing 'round
Holding out their empty hand or tin cup
Gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme
Gimme, gimme, gimme
Fill my stocking up
All the way up
It's a time when the greedy
Give a dime to the needy
Blue Christmas
All the favoritism and the fal-de-ral
Blue Xmas
People trading gifts that matter not at all
What I call fal-de-ral, bitter gall
Fal-de-ral
Lots of hungry, homeless children in your own backyards
While you're very, very busy
Addressing twenty zillion Christmas cards
Now, Yuletide is the season to receive
And oh, to give and ah, to share
But all you December do-gooders rush around
And rant and rave and loudly blare
Merry Christmas
I hope yours is a bright one, but for me, it's blue
I hope you have a bright one, but for me, it's blue
Blue Christmas
That's the way you see it when you're feeling blue
Blue Xmas
When you're blue at Christmas time, you see right through
All the waste, all the sham, all the haste
And plain ol' bad taste
Sidewalk Santy Clauses are much, much, much too thin
They're wearing fancy rented costumes
False beards and big fat phony grins
And nearly everybody's standing 'round
Holding out their empty hand or tin cup
Gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme
Gimme, gimme, gimme
Fill my stocking up
All the way up
It's a time when the greedy
Give a dime to the needy
Blue Christmas
All the favoritism and the fal-de-ral
Blue Xmas
People trading gifts that matter not at all
What I call fal-de-ral, bitter gall
Fal-de-ral
Lots of hungry, homeless children in your own backyards
While you're very, very busy
Addressing twenty zillion Christmas cards
Now, Yuletide is the season to receive
And oh, to give and ah, to share
But all you December do-gooders rush around
And rant and rave and loudly blare
Merry Christmas
I hope yours is a bright one, but for me, it's blue
