Key: C major
Verse 1
C
The
Elves and the
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Shoemaker
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Long, long ago, during
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Am
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But sadly inside the shop was strife.
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eat, no
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Christmas pudding or tasty sweets.
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See, the shoemaker and his wife together only
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just had enough pieces of leather to make
He took the leather and then he cut it, sew, sew,
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sewing each little bit, cob -cobbling the
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leather into shoes,
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but the poor shoemaker was feeling blue.
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I just can't carry on, he said,
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and drooped his tired and heavy head, leaving his half -made
He went off to sleep in his big
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old bed.
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The next morning the shoemaker went down,
but soon he lost his worried frown.
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Someone had finished making the shoes.
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Maria, he cried.
eyes were wide.
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My shoes were finished in the night.
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They are so perfect and so bright.
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His wife jumped up and out of her bed.
But who finished them?
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She said.
They looked at the
shoes together.
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That very day the new shoes sold
for seven shiny coins of gold.
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The shoemaker and his wife jumped for joy,
now
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Em
Christmas they could enjoy.
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That night, just before they went to bed,
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they crept silently into the shed.
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They wanted to see if there were clues about
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who had made the lovely shoes.
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Into the shed two elves did bustle.
Marja,
The elves' hats were
fluffy and red.
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Christmas elves! his wife whispered back.
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G
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The elves worked with a creak an d a clack,
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sew -sewing shoes together, cob -cobbling some
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new leather.
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new pair.
They ran out and left the
shoes right there.
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Green leather shoes that sparkled so bright,
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made by elf magic, during the night.
out again.
We should give them something back,
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something those kind elves lack.
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I agree,
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Hmm, aha, I know, they need some warm
winter clothes.
and none of them ever went without.
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