Key: G major
Verse 1
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This story was told to me
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Mama said Un cle Johnny had a glass eye
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an d she said it was a bit unusual
about looking at it
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when he was in the room.
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His eyes were funny.
Uncle Johnny slept late
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But I couldn't wait to see what
Santa had brought,
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but he just had one eye open.
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And I told him it wasn't,
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but I thought he ought to come down
And he said,
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but why don't you take my eye down
was sitting on the table
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It was half full of water,
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It was a little scary, but I took it and walked
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carefully down the stairs to the front room.
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so the eye could look at all those
to look in our stockings,
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not until everybody got out of bed.
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But I didn't see any harm
peeking inside of mine.
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I slowly slid the glass down
that had verdant stitched on it,
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then swiveled it all around,
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I handed the glass back
to Uncle Johnny,
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and put the eye back in his head,
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and he said, Well, lookie here.
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to get a shiny, round orange
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We went straight to our stockings
a shiny round orange
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and a brand new Barlow knife.
that his eye hadn't seen
who had brought the orange
and the Barlow knife
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an d many of the presents
that went into the stockings
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that Christmas.
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Now I have a family of my own
is no longer with us,
see the magic in Christmas.
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you
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