Key: G major
Verse 1
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It was the night before Christmas,
and all through the house
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Not a creature was stirring,
not even a mouse
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The stockings were hung
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In hopes that old St. Nicholas
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While visions of sugar plums
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danced in their heads
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And Mom and her kerchief
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and I in my cap
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We'd just settled our brains
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Away to the window I flew like a flash
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And I tore open the shutters
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and I threw up the sash
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Gave a luster of midday
to the objects below
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When worship to my wander
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But a miniature sleigh
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With a little old driver so lively and quick
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More rapid than eagles his
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And he whistled and shouted
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and called them by name
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On Cunard, on Cupid,
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To the top of the porch,
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Now dash away, dash away, dash away all
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And then a twinkling
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The prancing and pawing
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As I drew in my head
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Down the chimney St.
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He was dressed all in fur
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with his head to his foot
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An d his clothes were all tarnished
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and ashes and soot
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A bundle of toys he had flung on his back
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He looked like a peddler
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His eyes how they twinkled,
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His cheeks were like roses
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and his nose like a cherry
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He had a broad face and a
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That shook when he laughed,
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He spoke not a word,
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but went straight to his work
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And filled all the stockings,
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and then turned with a jerk
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And layin' his finger upside his nose
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He sprang to his sleigh,
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to his team he gave a whistle
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And away they all flew,
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like the dawn of a missile
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But I heard them explain,
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Merry Christmas to all,
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and all a good night
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Merry Christmas, and all a good night
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Merry Christmas to all, and all a good night
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Merry Christmas to all,
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Yeah
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