
The Kelly Song Collective
Happy Christmas I Suppose
The streets are paved with asphalt in this town
The price of stuff is going up and spirits going down
Wondering if this winter’s like the last
But someone’s singing carols in the bar that I just passed
I can’t see the shop signs for the snow
Imagine it’s a movie I’m an actor that you know
Peace on earth but I have to make sure
That the tiger glows and Christie and that thing at Jane and Bloor
Happy Christmas I suppose
Will you be giving gifts
Or watch those Christmas shows
Happy Christmas we’ll just say
Will you see your family
On this or any other day
Friday was as black as Christmas white
But other shades best tell the tale that I’ve heard all my life
More metaphor than a greeting card
Where snow may blanket where you sleep or cover my front yard
Here’s my carol
Not the one you hear in church
Here’s my Christmas song
Or on the 8 track Christmas morn
I once heard Bing Crosby sing a song
Maybe it was Burl Ives but I had just had to sing along
I know Christmas morning in a place
Saddled with the present trapped in states of grace
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© Michael Worthington Music 2014

Not your parents' Christmas song.