Merry Christmas... Have A Nice Life

Listen to the children sing
Watch them dancing all 'round the christmas tree ...
Waiting for the opening
Early christmas morning ...

All around the world is sleeping
Little children there's no peeping
Wait and see what santa's bringing
Early christmas morning ...

Icicles and breakfast cakes ...
Friends and family we will celebrate
Sounds that joy and laughter make
Early christmas morning ...

All around and far off places
Angels waken smiling faces
Wrapping us with love and graces
Early christmas morning ...
Early christmas morning ...

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Worked with a woman named minnie
One christmas eve long ago
When i asked "what you doing this evening ?"
Minnie took on a seasonal glow
She said she'd be waiting for santa
She'd be wearing a bright red bow

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Minnie and santa
Minnie and santa
What they're up to only
Heaven knows she wrote on a card
"don't take it so hard we're headed for the north pole"

Now minnie could not be persuaded
That santa just did not exist
She swore if she put up some mistletoe
Santa'd come give her a kiss
And there where she'd hung up her stockings
All in their silky, soft, sheen
She'd be laying in wait on a bear skin rug
Where the cookies and milk could be seen

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Minnie and santa
Minnie and santa
What they're up to only
Heaven knows she wrote on a card
"don't take it so hard we're headed for the north pole"
(musical interlude)

Now minnie was older and wiser
Like a dear old auntie to me
But the night that she ran off with santa
Was a real epiphany

Chorus:
Minnie and santa
Minnie and santa
What they're up to only
Heaven knows she wrote on a card
"don't take it so hard we're headed for the north pole"

Next xmas i passed by the bakery
Staring out from on top of a cake
Was jolly old santa with a big silly grin
And a gal in silk stockings and lace
Oh, minnie and santa...

It's time to make the christmas punch
Let's hang the streamers from the ceiling
Bring out the old cheer
Ring in the new year
And get that christmas feeling

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I wish you joy that never ends
Happy times with all your friends
Come on and hold my hips a little longer
As we do the christmas conga,
Bonga, bonga, bonga, bonga
Do the christmas conga

The old white tree still looks good
And grandma's angels got me thinking
String up the new lights,
Brighten the cold nights
And get those baubles blinking

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I wish you joy that never ends
Happy times with all your friends
Come on and hold my hips a little longer
As we do the christmas conga,
Bonga, bonga, bonga, bonga
Do the christmas conga

And then we'll put on party hats
As the year comes to a conclusion
Turn on the yule log
Spike up the egg nog
And break those resolutions

Chorus:
I wish you joy that never ends
Happy times with all your friends
Come on and hold my hips a little longer
As we do the christmas conga,
Bonga, bonga, bonga, bonga
Do the christmas conga

When i first saw you you looked alien
Like someone in mid dance
Like a little old man
When you first held me in your tiny grip
You seemdd just like popeye
With your cap and your souint

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