We wish you the merriest, the merriest,
The merriest, O the merriest,
We wish you the merriest Christmas and
The happiest New Year!
Feliz Navidad
Feliz Navidad
Feliz Navidad
Prospero Año y Felicidad
Mele Kalikimaka is the thing to say on a bright Hawaiian Christmas Day
That’s the island greeting that we send to you from the land where palm trees sway
I won a competition in a little column in my local paper,
So I packed my bags and flew across the sea–all on my local paper.
I sailed to Hawaii, in the U.S.A.
I’m just an English boy who won a holiday in Waikiki.
I want to go back to my little grass shack in Kealakekua Hawaii
I want to be with all the kanes and wahines that I knew long ago
I can hear old guitars a-playing
On the beach at Ho’onaunau
I can hear the Hawaiians saying
‘Komo mai no kaua ika hale welakahao’
While my guitar gently weeps
Listen to me when I’m a-gonna say
I’m all cried out, yeah, over you
Listen to me when I’m a-tellin’ you
I’m all cried out, yeah, over you
Over you
It’s hard to understand
But the touch of your hand
Can start me crying
Dollars down the penny drain
Frozen in the clouds
Dream away the last of pain
In waterfalls of sounds
Float across the icy pools
Leaves with curl and sway
Now your mind is floating cool
And you can find the way
Can you understand you can really understand?
When the darkness comes you still shine
Open up your eyes and make the day shine sunshine now
Open up your dreams and and make the way shine sunshine now
Can you understand you understand
Can you understand you understand
Open up your life and make your lifetime sunshine now
Open up your soul and make your lifeline sunshine now
Can you understand you understand
Can you understand you understand?
If an Irish Callahan can
Maybe we can can-can too!
Let me put you on a ship
On a long, long trip
Your lips close to my lips
All the islands in the ocean
All the heaven’s in motion
Let me show you the world in my eyes
Take me on a trip upon your magic swirlin’ ship
My senses have been stripped, my hands can’t feel to grip
My toes too numb to step, wait only for my boot heels to be wanderin’
I’m ready to go anywhere, I’m ready for to fade
Into my own parade, cast your dancing spell my way
I promise to go under it
Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me
I’m not sleepy and there is no place I’m going to
Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me
In the jingle jangle morning, I’ll come followin’ you
Drop your silver in my tambourine
Help a poor man fill his pretty dream
Give me pennies I’ll take anything
Now listen while I play
My green tambourine
Watch the jingle jangle start to chime
Reflections of the music that is mine
When you drop a coin you’ll hear it sing
Now listen while I play
My green tambourine
And the troll on the corner, I flipped him a quarter
And he looked at me and smiled
Well, he wasn’t abused, he wasn’t confused
He had nothing to gain and less to lose in Hollywood
Hey, look me over!
Lend me an ear,
Fresh out of clover
Mortgaged up to here.
Roll me over in the clover,
Roll me over, lay me down,
And do it again!
What would you think if I sang out of tune
Would you stand up and walk out on me
Lend me your ears and I’ll sing you a song
And I’ll try not to sing out of key
It’s a little bit funny this feeling inside
I’m not one of those who can easily hide
I don’t have much money but boy if I did
I’d buy a big house where we both could live
If I was a sculptor but then again no
Or a man who makes potions in a traveling show
Oh I know it’s not much but it’s the best I can do
My gift is my song
And this one’s for you
And you can tell everybody this is your song
It may be quite simple but now that it’s done
I hope you don’t mind
I hope you don’t mind
That I put down in words
How wonderful life is while you’re in the world
This one’s for you, wherever you are
To say that nothings been the same, since we’ve been apart
This one’s for all the love we once knew
Like everything else, I have this one’s for you, oh
This one goes out to the one I love
This one goes out to the one I’ve left behind
A simple prop to occupy my time
This one goes out to the one I love