Bing Crosby's Christmas Gems (2023)












Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! lyrics - Bing Crosby

Oh, the weather outside is frightful
But the fire is so delightful
And since we've no place to go
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow

It doesn't show signs of stopping
And I've bought some corn for popping
The lights are turned away down low
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow

When we finally kiss goodnight
How I'll hate going out in the storm
But if you'll really hold me tight
All the way home I'll be warm

The fire is slowly dying
And, my dear, we're still good-bying
But as long as you love me so
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow

When we finally kiss goodnight
How I'll hate going out in the storm
But if you'll really hold me tight
All the way home I'll be warm

Oh the fire is slowly dying
And my dear, we're still good-bying
But as long as you love me so
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow

Just What I Wanted For Christmas lyrics - Bing Crosby

 Just what I wanted for Christmas

I got just what I wanted this year

I got an Abercrombie blazer with a thin pinstripe

I got a velvet smoking jacket with a Dunhill pipe

And there's that lovely paisley muffin, ah it's so my type

Just what I wanted, my dear


Yes, just what I needed for Christmas

All the things I've always dream of

I got some jungle gym pajamas and some Alpine hats

Some real Parisian painted neckwear that they call "cravats"

They are hard to find but you, you done

Found some doeskin spats

Just what I wanted, my love


So, ring out to the Noel

When you're headed and distraught

If your shopping didn't go well

It's not what you bought. It's the Yuletide thought


But all I wanted for Christmas

Was the thought you were thinking of me

I'd say that you've been twice as busy as a Christmas Elf

I'll bet that personally you have emptied every modern shelf

But what I wanted by my Christmas tree was your sweet self

Your love makes the season sublime

And that's what I wanted for Christmas

That's what I needed for Christmas

Yes, that's what I wanted for Christmas all the time

O, Little Town Of Bethlehem lyrics - Bing Crosby

 Those are the bells of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem

Tonight, this Christmas cast its magic spell across the world

We'd like to sing again the song which describes a peaceful holy land

The holy land of countless years of faith

Carolers, let's sing "O, Little Town of Bethlehem"


O, little town of Bethlehem

How still we see thee lie

Above thy deep and dreamless sleep

The silent stars go by

Yet in thy dark streets shineth

The everlasting light

The hopes and fears of all the years

Are met in thee tonight

How Lovely is Christmas lyrics - Bing Crosby

 How lovely is Christmas

With boughs in the hall

When bells ringle jingle

And friends come to call


How lovely is Christmas

With joy on the wing

While under your window

The carolers sing


God rest ye, be merry

Give peace while you may

Remember the child

Who was born on this day


How lovely is Christmas

With songs in the air

A bright merry Christmas

Dear friends everywhere


How lovely is Christmas

With boughs in the hall

When bells ringle jingle

And friends come to call


How lovely is Christmas

With joy on the wing

While under your window

The carolers sing


God rest ye, be merry

Give peace while you may

Remember the child

Who was born on this day


How lovely is Christmas

With songs in the air

A bright merry Christmas

Dear friends everywhere

(Everywhere)

Away In A Manger lyrics - Bing Crosby & Kathryn Crosby

 Away in a manger

No crib for His bed

The little Lord Jesus

Laid down His sweet head


The stars in the sky

Look down where He lay

The little Lord Jesus

Asleep on the hay


The cattle are lowing

The poor baby wakes

But little Lord Jesus

No crying He makes


I love Thee, Lord Jesus

Look down from the sky

And stay by my cradle

'Til morning is nigh

Good King Wenceslas lyrics - Bing Crosby

 Good King Wenceslas looked out

On the feast of Stephen

When the snow lay 'round about

Deep and crisp and even

Brightly shone the moon that night

Though the frost was cruel

When a poor man came in sight

Gath'ring winter fuel


"Hither, page, and stand by me

If thou know'st it, telling

Yonder peasant, who is he?

Where and what his dwelling?"

"Sire, he lives a good league hence

Underneath the mountain

Right against the forest fence

By Saint Agnes' fountain."


"Then, bring me bread and bring me wine

Bring me pine logs hither

Thou and I will see him dine

When we bear them thither."

Page and monarch forth they went

Forth they went together

Through the rude wind's wild lament

And the bitter weather


Sire, the night is darker now

And the wind blows stronger

Failed my heart, I know not how

I can go no longer

Mark my footsteps, my good page

Tread thou in them boldly

Thou shalt find the winter's rage

Freeze thy blood less coldly


In his master's steps he trod

Where the snow lay dinted

Heat was in the very sod

Which the Saint had printed

Therefore, Christian men, be sure

Wealth or rank possessing

Ye who will now bless the poor

Shall yourself find blessing

The Night Before Christmas lyrics - Bing Crosby

 'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house

Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse

The stockings were hung by the chimney with care

In hopes that St. Nicholas would soon be there


The children were nestled all snug in their beds

While visions of sugar plums danced in their heads

And Mama in her 'kerchief, and I in my cap

Had just settled our brains for a long winter's nap


When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter

I sprang from my bed to see what was the matter

Away to the window I flew like a flash

Tore open the shutter, and threw up the sash


The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow

Gave the lustre of midday to objects below

When, what to my wondering eyes should appear

But a miniature sleigh and eight tiny reindeer


With a little old driver, so lively and quick

I knew in a moment it must be St. Nick

More rapid than eagles, his coursers they came

And he whistled and shouted and called them by name:


"Now, Dasher! Now, Dancer!

Now, Prancer and Vixen!

On, Comet! On, Cupid!

On, Donner and Blitzen!

To the top of the porch!

To the top of the wall!

Now dash away! Dash away!

Dash away all!"


As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly

When they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky

So up to the house-top the coursers they flew

With the sleigh full of toys, and St. Nicholas too


And then, in a twinkling, I heard on the roof

The prancing and pawing of each tiny little hoof

As I drew in my head and was turning around

Down the chimney St. Nicholas came with a bound


He was dressed all in fur from his head to his foot

And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot

A bundle of toys he had flung on his back

And he looked like a peddler just opening his pack


His eyes--how they twinkled! His dimples, how merry!

His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry!

His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow

And the beard on his chin was as white as the snow


The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth

And the smoke--it encircled his head like a wreath

He had a broad face and a little round belly

That shook when he laughed, like a bowl full of jelly


He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf

And I laughed when I saw him, in spite of myself

A wink of his eye and a twist of his head

Soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread


He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work

And filled all the stockings, and then he turned with a jerk

And laying his finger aside of his nose

And giving a nod, up the chimney he rose


He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle

And away they all flew like the down of a thistle

But I heard him exclaim, 'ere he drove out of sight

"Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good night!"

Christmas Island lyrics - Bing Crosby

 How'd you like to spend Christmas on Christmas Island?

How'd you like to spend the holiday away across the sea?

How'd you like to spend Christmas on Christmas Island?

How'd you like to hang a stocking on a great big coconut tree?


How'd you like to stay up late

Like the islanders do?

Wait for Santa to sail in

With your presents in a canoe


If you ever spend Christmas on Christmas Island

You will never stray, for every day your Christmas dreams come true


How'd you like to stay up late

Like the islanders do?

Wait for Santa to sail in

With your presents in a canoe


If you ever spend Christmas on Christmas Island

You will never stray, for every day your Christmas dreams come true


Aloha hoy

Aloha hoy


You will never stray, for every day your Christmas dreams come true

Joy To The World lyrics - Bing Crosby

 Joy to the world, the Lord is come

Let earth receive her king

Let every heart prepare Him room


And Heaven and nature sing

And Heaven and nature sing

And Heaven, and Heaven and nature sing


Alright

Everybody now in the family key, please


Joy to the world, the Savior reigns

That all their songs employ

While fields and floods, rocks, hills and plains


Repeat the sounding joy

Repeat the sounding joy

Repeat, repeat the sounding joy


Joy to the world, the Lord is come

Let earth receive her king

Let every heart prepare Him room


And Heaven and nature sing

And Heaven and nature sing

And Heaven, and Heaven and nature sing

The Secret Of Christmas lyrics - Bing Crosby

 It's not the glow you feel when snow appears

It's not the Christmas card you've sent for years

Not the joyful sound when sleigh bells ring

Or the merry songs children sing


The little gift you send on Christmas day

Will not bring back the friend you turned away

So, may I suggest the secret of Christmas

It's not the things you do at Christmas time

But the Christmas things you do all year through


The little gift you send on Christmas day

Will not bring back the friend you turned away

So, may I suggest the secret of Christmas

It's not the things you do at Christmas time

But the Christmas things you do all year through

White World Of Winter lyrics - Bing Crosby

 Jing, jing, jing

Jing, jing, jing


In this wonderful white world of winter

Darling, we'll have a wonderful time

Jing a ling, jing, jing

First, we'll ride side by side through the hinter

And roundelay to the sleigh bell's merry chime

Jing a ling, jing, jing


Then we'll ski fancy free down the mountains

And take those chances all silly people do

If there's ever a moment you are freezin'

Just a little squeezin'

Could be mighty pleasin'


In this wonderful white world of winter

I'm fallin' head-over-heels over you

In this wonderful white world of winter

In this wonderful white world of winter


In this wonderful white world of winter

Darling, we'll have a wonderful time

Jing a ling, jing, jing


If we prayed it would snow all this winter

I ask ya, is that a terrible horrible crime?

Jing a ling, jing, jing


I can't wait 'til we skate on Lake Happy

And sip a hot buttered cup in the after-flow

If there's ever a moment you're not laugh-in'

Maybe a toboggan

Don't bump your little noggin'

Bump your little noggin'


In this wonderful white world of winter

I'm thinking' you are the sweetest one I know

In this wonderful white world of winter

Here we go

In this wonderful white world of winter

In the snow

In this wonderful white world of winter

In the snow

In this wonderful white world of winter


Marshmallow World lyrics - Bing Crosby & Ella Fitzgerald

 Ah, it's a marshmallow world in the winter

When the snow comes to cover the ground

It's the time for play

It's a whip-cream day

I wait for it the whole year 'round


And those are marshmallow clouds being friendly

In the arms of the evergreen trees

And the sun is red

Like a pumpkin head

It's shining so your nose won't freeze


And the world is your snowball, see how it grows

That's how it goes

Whenever it snows

The world is your snowball just for a song

Get out, harry and roll it along


It's a yum-yummy world made for sweethearts

Take a walk with your favorite girl

It's a sugar date

What if spring is late

In winter it's a marshmallow world


Ah, it's a marshmallow day in the winter

When the snow comes to cover the ground

It's the time for play

It's a whip-cream day

And we wait for it the whole year 'round


Just you remember that those are marshmallow clouds being friendly

In the arms of the evergreen trees

And the sun is red

Like a pumpkin head

It's shining so your nose won't freeze


You must remember that the world is your snowball, see how it grows

That's how it goes

Whenever it snows

The world is your snowball just for a song

Get out, harry and roll it along


And, it's a yum-yummy world made for sweethearts

Take a walk with your favorite girl

It's a sugar date

What if spring is late

In winter it's a marshmallow world


In winter it's a marshmallow world!

In winter it's a marshmallow world!


Christmas Star lyrics - Bing Crosby

 There is a light shining right on the bay

Making the night seem as bright as the day

Do you believe it may just appear

Christmas eve from year to year


Heavenly glow in the still while you last

Tell if you will what you know of the past

And of tomorrow's promised joy

Born a King, baby boy


Brighten this night, show us where you are

Be our Christmas star


There is a light shining right on the bay

Making the night seem as bright as the day

Do you believe it may just appear

Christmas eve from year to year


Heavenly glow in the still while you last

Tell if you will what you know of the past

And of tomorrow's promised joy

Born a King, baby boy


Brighten this night, show us where you are

Be our Christmas star

Peace On Earth / Little Drummer Boy lyrics - Bing Crosby & David Bowie

 Come they told me pa-rum-pum-pum-pum

A new-born king to see pa-rum-pum-pum-pum

Our finest gifts we bring pa-rum-pum-pum-pum

Rum-pum-pum-pum, rum-pum-pum-pum


Come they told me pa-rum-pum-pum-pum

A new-born king to see pa-rum-pum-pum-pum

Our finest gifts we bring pa-rum-pum-pum-pum

To lay before the king pa-rum-pum-pum-pum

Rum-pum-pum-pum, rum-pum-pum-pum


So to honour him pa-rum-pum-pum-pum

When we come


Peace on Earth, can it be

Years from now, perhaps we'll see

See the day of glory

See the day, when men of good will

Live in peace, live in peace again


Peace on Earth, can it be


Every child must be made aware

Every child must be made to care

Care enough for his fellow man

To give all the love that he can


Little baby pa-rum-pum-pum-pum

I stood beside him there pa-rum-pum-pum-pum

I played my drum for him pa-rum-pum-pum-pum

I played my best for him pa-rum-pum-pum-pum

Rum-pum-pum-pum, rum-pum-pum-pum


And he smiled at me pa-rum-pum-pum-pum

Me and my drum


I pray my wish will come true

For my child and your child too

He'll see the day of glory

See the day when men of good will

Live in peace, live in peace again


Peace on Earth, can it be


Can it be


It's pretty thing, isn't it?

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