Getting Ready for Christmas Day-Paul Simon

[00:00.000] 作词 : Paul Simon [00:01.000] 作曲 : Paul Simon [00:31.799]From early in November to the last week of December [00:35.247]I got money matters weighing me down [00:39.237]Oh the music may be merry, but it's only temporary [00:42.425]I know Santa Claus is coming to town [00:46.937]In the days I work my day job, in the nights I work my night [00:50.391]But it all comes down to working man's pay [00:54.911]Getting ready, I'm getting ready, ready for Christmas Day [01:03.673]Getting ready for Christmas Day [01:05.267]And let me tell you, namely, the undertaker, he's getting ready for your body [01:11.375]Not only that, the jailer he's getting ready for you [01:16.419]Christmas Day, hmm? [01:19.608]And not only the jailer, but the lawyer, the police force [01:24.918]Now getting ready for Christmas Day, and I want you to bear it in mind [01:33.429]I got a nephew in Iraq it's his third time back [01:37.142]But it's ending up the way it began [01:41.129]With the luck of a beginner he'll be eating turkey dinner [01:44.308]On some mountain top in Pakistan [01:48.829]Getting ready, oh we're getting ready [01:56.533]For the power and the glory and the story of the Christmas Day [02:03.969]Getting ready, for Christmas Day [02:05.827]Done made it up in your mind that I'm going, New York, Philadelphia, Chicago [02:13.267]I'm going, on a trip, getting ready, for Christmas Day [02:19.110]But when Christmas come, nobody knows where you'll be [02:23.886]You might ask me [02:26.016]I may be layin' in some lonesome grave, getting ready, for Christmas Day [02:50.920]Getting ready oh we're getting ready [02:58.831]For the power and the glory and the story of the Christmas Day [03:06.271]Yes, we're getting ready [03:07.603]Getting ready, ready for your prayers [03:11.055]"I'm going and see my relatives in a distant land" [03:16.101]Getting ready, getting ready for Christmas Day [03:21.893]If I could tell my Mom and Dad that the things we never had [03:25.607]Never mattered we were always okay [03:29.594]Getting ready, oh ready, ready for Christmas Day [03:39.151]Ready, getting ready [03:45.259]For the power and the glory and the story of the Christmas Day