lp discography - covers & lyrics

1.

LITTLE STRANGER (IN A MANGER)

(Tommie Connor) « © '49 Unichappell Music, BMI »
Little stranger in a manger little stranger sweet and mild
Mother Mary daddy Joseph watch o'er you their holy child
Searching for you to adore you come Three Kings led by a star
Little stranger in a manger they'll find heaven where you are

Choir of angels are singing this night of your birth
Praise and glory to the highest in a stable on earth
Humble shepherds filled will wonder kneel and pray by lanthern light
Little stranger in a manger bless our soul this holy night

Choir of angels are singing this night of your birth
Praise and glory to the highest little stranger here on earth
[ vibes ] Humble shepherds filled will wonder...
(Little stranger here on earth)
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2.

CHRISTMAS ROSES

(Paula Frances Ianello - Nicholas A. Catsos) « © '53 April Music, ASCAP / Catsos Music, ASCAP / Rivera Ray Music, ASCAP »
Christmas roses to you I'm sending
May they bring Christmas joy though we're apart
Christmas roses will say I love you
As the tender message echoes from my heart

Though I can't be with you on this Christmas Day
Remember that I'll always love you though I'm far away
Christmas roses to you I'm sending
May they bring Christmas joy though we're apart
[ piano + guitar ] Though I can't be with you...
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3.

SILENT NIGHT

(Franz Gruber - Joseph Mohr) « © '53 Educational Graphics Press, BMI »
Silent night holy night all is calm all is bright
Round young virgin mother and child holy infant so tender and mild
Sleep in heavenly peace sleep in heavenly peace

Silent night holy night shepherds quake at the sight
Glories stream from heaven above heavely hosts sing hallelujah
Christ the Saviour is born Christ the Saviour is born
[ organ ] Silent night holy night son of God love's pure light
Radiant beams from thy holy face with the dawn of redeeming grace
Jesus Lord at Thy birth Jesus Lord at Thy birth
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4.

C-H-R-I-S-T-M-A-S

(Jenny Lou Carson - Eddy Arnold) « © '49 Unichappell Music, BMI »
(And here's why there's a Christmas Day)

When I was but a youngster Christmas meant one thing
That I'd be getting lots of toys that day
I learned a whole lot different when mother set me down
And taught me to spell Christmas this way

C is for the Christ Child born upon that day
H's for Herald Angels in the night
R means our redeemer I means Israel
S is for the stars that shone so bright

T is for three wise men they who traveled far
M's for the manger where he lay
A's for all he stands for S means shepherds came
And that's why there's a Christmas Day
[ guitar ] T is for three wise men...
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5.

WHITE CHRISTMAS

(Irving Berlin) « © '42 Irving Berlin Music, ASCAP »
I'm dreaming of a white Christmas
Just like the ones I used to know
Where the treetops glisten and children listen
To hear sleigh bells in the snow

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas
With every Christmas card I write
May your days be merry and bright
And may all your Christmases be white

(I'm dreaming of a white Christmas)
The sun is shining the grass is green the old pine trees sway
You know there's never been such a day in the good ole USA
Cause it's December the twenty-four that I'm alone and the way out of knowin'
(To hear the sleigh bells in the snow)

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas...
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6.

BLUE CHRISTMAS

(Bill Hayes - Jay Johnson) « © '48 PolyGram Int, ASCAP »
I'll have a blue Christmas without you
I'll be so blue thinking about you
Decorations of red on a green Christmas tree
Won't mean a thing if you're not here with me

I'll have a blue Christmas that's certain
And when that blue heartache starts hurtin'
You'll be doing alright with your Christmas of white
But I'll have a blue blue Christmas
[ guitar ] You'll be doing alright with your Christmas of white
But I'll have a blue blue Christmas
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7.

REINDEER BOOGIE

(Hank Snow - Peanut Faircloth - Cordia Volkmar) « © '53 Ernest Tubb Music, BMI »
Santa had a cup of coffee and he ate a little snack
Through his pack right over his back
Open the windows of his little shack and shouted oh dasher and dancer
Vixen and blitzen come on here
We're gonna get a goin' and spread some cheer
So limber your legs and sharpen your hooves
Cause tonight is the night were gonna jump on the roof

So the reindeer they were so proud and grand
To take another trip all over the land
They jumped right into thier proper place
To get hepped up for that midnight race
[ guitar ] Ol' Santa he shook off the ice and snow
Boarded his sleigh and then yelled let's go
All the little toys were happy too BEcause they were so bright and new
A little piano then started to play ol' Santa began to swing and to sway
Thought he heard a toy drum starting to beat
But he found it was just the rhythm of the reindeer feet

The reindeer boogied in the middle of the road
Tonight we have a mighty big load
Don't boogie to the left now boogie to the right
Do the reindeer boogie this Christmas Eve night
[ piano ] Oh the reindeer boogied in the middle of the road...
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8.

FROSTY THE SNOWMAN

(Jack Rollins - Steve Nelson) « © '50 Anne Rachel Music, ASCAP »
Frosty the snowman was a jolly happy soul
With a corncob pipe and a button nose and two eyes made out of coal
Frosty the snowman was a fairy tale they say
He was made of snow but the children know how he come to life one day

There must have been some magic in that old silk that they found
For when they placed it on his head he began to dance around
Frosty the snowman was alive as he could be
And the children say he could laugh and play just the same as you and me
[ guitar - piano ] Frosty the snowman knew the sun was hot that day
So he said let's run and we'll have some fun now before I melt away
Down to the village with a broomstick in his hand
Running here and there all around the square saying catch me if you can

He led them down the streets of town right up to the traffic cop
And he only paused a moment when he heard him holler stop
Frosty the snowman had to hurry on his way
But he waved goodbye sayin' don't you cry I'll be back again some day
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9.

CHRISTMAS WANTS

(Waldemar W. Argow) « © '66 Writer Share, PD »
What do you want for Christmas
Ah the truth the answer to no other questions
So complete serves as an index of what we are at heart
At other times of the year we can pretend and make believe
But at Christmas time our true nature reveals itself
And we act from the hidden motives that dominate our lives
Come with me this Yule tide
And let the heart express thoses wishes
It has ever longed for but never dared express
What is it we want
I want a few sincere friends who understand my loneliness
Yet remind loyal when I am silent
I want a growing capacity to understand
And respond to the unuttered sufferings of others
Knowing that they fight as hard a battle against many odds even as I
I want a sense of duty tempered with beauty
A conception of work as a privilege
And urge to justice mainly with mercy
And a feeling that responsibility is my debt
For the opportunity of living in a day when great aims are at stake
I want a task to do which has abiding value
Without which the lives of many would be poorer
And the good I might do be eternally lost
I want a sense of humor and the genius to laugh
The grace to forgive and the humility to be forgiven
The willingness to praise
And the freedom to enjoy a little leisure with tantalizing dreams
I want a glimpse of kneeling hillsides the unresting sea
The horizion and chanting plains
And the thrill of a few high tangled bird notes keenly thinned
I want a few wistful moments of quiet
Amid the garish noises and fevered fret of the day
And when twlight flecks the even tide with spotted shadows
A sense of the presense of God
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10.

RUDOLPH THE RED NOSED REINDEER

(Johnny Marks) « © '49 St Nicholas Music, ASCAP/ Educational Graphic Press, BMI »
You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen
Comet and Cupid and Donder and Blitzen
But do you recall the most famous reindeer of all

Rudolph the red nosed reindeer had a very shiny nose
And if you ever saw it you would even say it glows
All of the other reindeer used to laugh and call him names
They'd never let poor Rudolph join in any reindeer games

Then one foggy Christmas Eve Santa came to say
Rudolph with your nose so bright won't you guide my sleigh tonight
Then how the reindeer loved him as they shouted out with glee
Rudolph the red nosed reindeer you'll go down in history
[ guitar - vibes ] Then one foggy Christmas Eve...
(You'll go down in history)
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11.

GOD IS MY SANTA CLAUS

(W.K. Shewmake) « © '66 Shew-Ming Music, BMI »
In a classroom at the grade school just before the Holidays
The boys and girls were writing notes to Santa far away
Expect a lad who sat alone his paper put away
And when his teacher asked him why so softly he did say

For God is my Santa Claus each and every day
I don't write him letters ma'm I just kneel and pray
Don't you know his greatest gift salvation is afound
God to be my Santa Claus each day the whole you're round
[ guitar ] Then the teacher stood in silence after what the child had said
He really knew real Christmas day and not from books he'd read
He truly met real Santa Clause he said in just one word
God gave his praise for Christmas day my Santa Clause is God

(God is my Santa Claus each and every day
I don't write him letters ma'm I just kneel and pray)
Do you know his greatest gift salvation is afonud
God to be my Santa Claus each day the whole you're round
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12.

CHRISTMAS CANNONBALL

(Jack Rollins - Steve Nelson) « © '66 Anne Rachel Music, ASCAP »
From out the frozen northland to the better tempered clime
There's a train that comes a rollin' every year at Christmas time
All the kids are in their glory when the snow begins to fall
Cause they know it's bringin' Santa Claus on the Christmas cannonball

It takes off at the North Pole with a jingle and a roar
It's partly run by reindeer till it gets to Baltimore
If you hear the cry of timber comin' out of Montreal
You can start to look for Santa Claus and the Christmas Cannonball

Oh the Christmas Cannonball the Christmas Cannonball
Jingle ling ling ling toot toot Jingle ling toot the Christmas Cannonball
[ guitar ] She's loaded down with nice things mama dolls and fancy toys
But he picks out all the best things for the real good girls and boys
Then he hollers Merry Christmas everybody big and small
Cause he means make way for Santa Claus and the Christmas Cannonball

So listen to your mother do the things she tells you too
If you can't be good till Christmas then it's just too bad for you
Take it easy with your crying and be careful one and all
Cause it's almost time for Santa Claus and the Christmas Cannonball

Oh the Christmas Cannonball...
The Christmas Cannonball the Christmas Cannonball the Christmas Cannonball
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