歌曲名 Christmas Wants 歌手名 Hank Snow

作词：W Waldemar Argow

作曲：W Waldemar Argow

What do you want for Christmas

Ah the truth the answer to no other questions

So complete serves as an index of

What we are at heart

At other times of the year

We can pretend and make believe

But at Christmas time our true nature reveals itself

And we act from the hidden motives

That dominate our lives

Come with me this Yule tide

And let the heart express those wishes

It has ever longed for but never dared express

What is it we want

I want a few sincere friends

Who understand my loneliness

Yet remind loyal when I am silent

I want a growing capacity to understand

And respond to the unuttered sufferings of others

Knowing that they fight as hard a battle

Against many odds even as I

I want a sense of duty tempered with beauty

A conception of work as a privilege

And urge to justice mainly with mercy

And a feeling that responsibility is my debt

For the opportunity of living in a day

When great aims are at stake

I want a task to do which has abiding value

Without which the lives of many would be poorer

And the good I might do be eternally lost

I want a sense of humor and the genius to laugh

The grace to forgive and the humility to be forgiven

The willingness to praise

And the freedom to enjoy a little

Leisure with tantalizing dreams

I want a glimpse of kneeling

Hillsides the unresting sea

The horizon and chanting plains

And the thrill of a few high tangled

Bird notes keenly thinned

I want a few wistful moments of quiet

Amid the garish noises and fevered fret of the day

And when twlight flecks the

Even tide with spotted shadows

A sense of the presence of God