How Did We Live Before Christmas? chords by Mark Lowry

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Verse 1
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Christmas comes but once a year,
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but what if it came more often?
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It would bankrupt the economy,
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snow would surely wreck the ecology,
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kids would sing jingle bell
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s till we're up a tree,
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and drive us to an early coffin.
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Christmas is a yearly thing,
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and  I'm really glad that it's so.
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If it came around every other week,
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we'd be so tired we could hardly
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speak.
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Our checkbooks would be up a creek
and we'd have to
shorten O Santa to just one hoe.
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Yes, once a year it rolls around
on the 25th day of December
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bringing cheery songs with cheery rhymes
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an d shopping sprees
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that pass the time.
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We have to stand in those weary lines
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and there's always someone I
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forget to remember.
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But think with me for just a while
of a time before there was
Christmas.
The time before the angels sang.
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The time before the wise men came.
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The time before we knew his name.
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How did we live before Christmas?
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The days before the star so bright.
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The years before that silent night.
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Before the Savior brought the light.
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How did we live before Christmas?
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Did little children ever sing?
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Did silver bells refuse to ring?
Did Hosannas ever crown the king?
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How did we live before Christmas?
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Did winter's chill make faces
glow?
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Did lovers kiss neath mistletoe?
Try as I might, I'll never
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know.
How did we live before Christmas?
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A virgin bore the blessed gift
of Christmas long ago.
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All heaven wrapped in swaddling clothes.
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Pure deity from head to toe.
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a  baby boy with heaven's glow.
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How did we live before Christmas?
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So, Christmas isn't  gifts and toys
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or waiting on Saint Nicholas.
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Christmas is a Savior's birth,
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a gift from heaven sent to earth
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to show the world just what it's worth.
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How did we live before Christmas?