[ti:'Twas the Night Before Christmas]
[ar:Milton Cross/Bing Crosby]
[00:00.57]'Twas the Night Before Christmas - Milton Cross Bing Crosby
[00:14.65]Twas the night before Christmas
[00:16.64]When all through the house
[00:18.13]Not a creature was
[00:18.96]Stirring not even a mouse
[00:22.06]The stockings were hung
[00:22.93]By the chimney with care
[00:24.96]In hopes that St Nicholas
[00:26.42]Soon would be there
[00:29.14]The children were nestled
[00:30.00]All snug through their beds
[00:32.43]While visions of sugar plums
[00:33.63]Danced in their heads
[00:35.75]And mamma in her kerchief
[00:36.91]And I in my cap
[00:39.05]Had just settled our brains
[00:40.56]For a long winter's nap
[00:43.20]When out on the lawn
[00:44.25]There arose such a clatter
[00:45.70]I sprang from the bed to
[00:47.02]See what was the matter
[00:48.80]Away to the window
[00:49.54]I flew like a flash
[00:51.29]Tore open the shutters
[00:52.32]And threw up the sash
[00:55.00]The moon on the breast
[00:56.14]Of the new fallen snow
[00:58.74]Gave the lustre of mid day
[00:59.94]To objects below
[01:01.99]When what to my wondering
[01:03.10]Eyes should appear
[01:03.92]But a miniature sleigh
[01:05.80]And eight tinny reindeer
[01:07.81]With a little old driver
[01:08.84]So lively and quick
[01:10.20]I knew in a moment it
[01:11.42]Must be St Nick
[01:13.72]More rapid than eagles
[01:14.70]His coursers they came
[01:16.25]And he whistled and shouted
[01:17.44]And called them by name
[01:19.03]Now Dasher now Dancer
[01:21.17]Now Prancer and Vixen
[01:22.94]On Comet On Cupid on
[01:24.68]On Donner and Blitzen
[01:25.96]To the top of the porch
[01:27.24]To the top of the wall
[01:28.55]Now dash away dash
[01:29.76]Away dash away all
[01:32.93]As dry leaves that
[01:33.77]Before the wild hurricane fly
[01:35.72]When they meet with an
[01:36.70]Obstacle mount to the sky
[01:38.42]So up to the house top
[01:40.13]The coursers they flew
[01:41.71]With the sleigh full of
[01:42.82]Toys and St Nicholas too
[01:45.72]And then in a twinkling
[01:47.91]I heard on the roof
[01:48.98]The prancing and pawing
[01:49.86]Of each little hoof
[01:52.14]As I drew in my head
[01:53.48]And was turning around
[01:54.89]Down the chimney St Nicholas
[01:56.28]Came with a bound
[01:58.82]He was dressed all in fur
[02:00.41]From his head to his foot
[02:02.30]And his clothes were all
[02:03.30]Tarnished with ashes and soot
[02:05.46]A bundle of toys he
[02:06.71]Had flung on his back
[02:07.89]And he looked like a peddler
[02:09.34]Just opening his pack
[02:11.95]He was chubby and plump
[02:13.25]A right jolly old elf
[02:14.77]And I laughed when
[02:15.65]I saw him in spite of myself
[02:17.63]A wink of his eye and
[02:19.45]A twist of his head
[02:20.56]Soon gave me to know
[02:21.72]I had nothing to dread
[02:23.93]The stump of a pipe
[02:25.10]He held tight in his teeth
[02:27.21]And the smoke
[02:28.14]It encircled his head like a wreath
[02:30.86]He had a broad face
[02:32.45]And a little round belly
[02:33.87]That shook when laughed
[02:35.02]Like a bowl full of jelly
[02:37.27]His eyes how they twinkled
[02:39.42]His dimples how merry
[02:41.66]His cheeks were like roses
[02:43.74]His nose like a cherry
[02:45.72]His droll little mouth
[02:47.02]Was drawn up in a bow
[02:48.50]And the beard on his chin was
[02:50.41]As white as the snow
[02:53.00]He spoke not a word
[02:54.21]But went straight to his work
[02:55.45]And filled all the stockings
[02:57.28]Then turned with a jerk
[02:58.86]And laying his finger
[02:59.74]Aside of his nose
[03:01.02]And giving a nod up
[03:02.23]The chimney he rose
[03:04.30]He sprang to his sleigh
[03:06.29]To his team gave a whistle
[03:07.85]And away they all flew
[03:09.25]Like the down of a thistle
[03:10.84]But I heard him exclaim ere
[03:12.24]He drove out of sight
[03:14.38]Happy Christmas to all
[03:16.29]And to all a good night