Getting Ready for Christmas Day - Paul Simon

作词：Paul Simon

作曲：Paul Simon

From early in November

To the last week of December

I got money matters weighing me down

Oh the music may be merry

But it only temporary

I know Santa Claus is coming to town

In the days I work my day job

In the nights I work my night

But it all comes down to working man pay

Getting ready I getting ready

Ready for Christmas Day

Getting ready for Christmas Day

And let me tell you namely

The undertaker he getting ready for your body

Not only that the jailer he getting ready for you

Christmas day Hmm And not only the jailer

But the lawyer the police force

Now getting ready for Christmas day

And I want you to bear it in mind

I got a nephew in Iraq

It his third time back

But it ending up the way it began

With the luck of a beginner

He be eating turkey dinner

On some mountain top in Pakistan

Getting ready oh we getting ready

For the power and the glory

And the story of the Christmas day

Getting ready for Christmas day

Done made it up in your mind that I going

New York Philadelphia Chicago

I going on a trip getting ready

For Christmas day

But when Christmas come

Nobody knows where you be

You might ask me

I may be layin in some lonesome grave

Getting ready for Christmas day

Getting ready oh we getting ready

For the power and the glory

And the story of the Christmas day

Yes we getting ready

Getting ready ready for your prayers

I going and see my relatives in a distant land

Getting ready getting ready for Christmas day

If I could tell my Mom and Dad

That the things we never had

Never mattered we were always okay

Getting ready oh ready for Christmas day

Ready getting ready

For the power and the glory

And the story of the Christmas day