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It was Christmas Eve, babe
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In the drunk tank
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An old man said to me
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"Won't see another one"
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And then he sang a song
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'The Rare Old Mountain Dew'
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I turned my face away
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And dreamed about you
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Got on a lucky one
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Came in eighteen-to-one
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I've got a feeling
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This year's for me and you
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So, Happy Christmas
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I love you, baby
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I can see a better time
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When all our dreams come true
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They've got cars big as bars
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They've got rivers of gold
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But the wind goes right through you
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It's no place for the old
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When you first took my hand
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On a cold Christmas Eve
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You promised me Broadway
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Was waiting for me
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"You were handsome!" "You were pretty
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Queen of New York City"
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When the band finished playing
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They howled out for more
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Sinatra was swinging
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All the drunks, they were singing
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And we kissed on a corner
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Then danced through the night
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And the boys of the NYPD choir
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Were singing 'Galway Bay'
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And the bells were ringing out
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For Christmas day
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"You're a bum, you're a punk"
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"You're an old cut on junk
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Lying there almost dead
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On a drip in that bed"
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"You scumbag, you maggot
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You cheap lousy ?
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Maybe Christmas, you mother
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I pray God it's our last"
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And the boys of the NYPD choir
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Were singing 'Galway Bay'
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And the bells were ringing out
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For Christmas day
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"I could have been someone"
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"Well, so could anyone
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You took my dreams from me
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When I first found you"
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"I took them with me, babe
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I kept them with my own
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Can't make it all alone
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I've built my dreams around you"
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And the boys of the NYPD choir
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Were singing 'Galway Bay'
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And the bells were ringing out
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For Christmas day
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Outro
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Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way
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Oh, what fun it is to ride in a one horse open sleigh hey
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Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way
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Oh, what fun it is to ride in a one horse open sleigh hey
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Dashing through the snow
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On a one horse open sleigh
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O'er the fields we go
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Laughing all the way
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Bells on bobtail ring
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Making spirits bright
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What fun it is to ride and sing
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A sleighing song tonight
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Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way
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Oh, what fun it is to ride in a one horse open sleigh hey
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Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way
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Oh, what fun it is to ride in a one horse open sleigh hey