《A Christmas Carol》歌词

[00:00:00] A Christmas Carol (圣诞颂歌) - Tom Lehrer

[00:00:00] One very familiar type of song is the christmas carol

[00:00:03] Although it is perhaps a bit out of season at this time

[00:00:05] However I'm informed by my disk jockey friends

[00:00:08] Of whom I have none

[00:00:10] In order to get a song popular by christmas time

[00:00:14] You have to start plugging it well in advance

[00:00:16] So here goes it has always seemed to me after all

[00:00:19] That christmas with its spirit of giving

[00:00:22] Us all a wonderful opportunity each year to reflect

[00:00:25] On what we all most sincerely and deeply believe in

[00:00:28] I refer of course to money

[00:00:31] And yet none of the christmas carols

[00:00:34] That you hear on the radio or in the street

[00:00:36] Even attempt to capture the true spirit of christmas

[00:00:41] As we celebrate it in the Unitstates

[00:00:45] That is to say the commercial spirit

[00:00:48] So I should like to offer the following christmas

[00:00:50] Carol for next year

[00:00:51] As being perhaps a bit more appropriate

[00:00:59] Christmas time is here by golly

[00:01:01] Disapproval would be folly

[00:01:04] Deck the halls with hunks of holly

[00:01:06] Fill the cup and dont say when

[00:01:08] Kill the turkeys ducks and chickens

[00:01:11] Mix the punch drag out the dickens

[00:01:13] Even though the prospect sickens

[00:01:15] Brother here we go again

[00:01:19] On christmas day you cant get sore

[00:01:22] Your fellow man you must adore

[00:01:24] Theres time to rob him all the more

[00:01:26] The other three hundred and sixty-four

[00:01:31] Relations sparing no expensell

[00:01:33] Send some useless old utensil

[00:01:36] Or a matching pen and pencil

[00:01:37] Just the thing I need how nice

[00:01:41] It does't matter how sincere it

[00:01:43] Is nor how heartfelt the spirit

[00:01:45] Sentiment will not endear it

[00:01:48] Whats important is the price

[00:01:51] Hark the herald tribune sings

[00:01:56] Advertising wondrous things

[00:02:00] God rest ye merry merchants

[00:02:02] May you make the yuletide pay

[00:02:08] Angels we have heard on high

[00:02:12] Tell us to go out and buy

[00:02:16] So let the raucous sleigh bells jingle

[00:02:20] Hail our dear old friend kris kringle

[00:02:23] Driving his reindeer across the sky

[00:02:27] Don't stand underneath when they fly by

[00:02:45] Actually I did rather well myself

[00:02:46] This last christmas

[00:02:48] The nicest present I received was a gift certificate

[00:02:51] Good at any hospital for a lobotomy

[00:02:58] Rather thoughtful now