Bill Anderson - My Christmas List Grows Shorter Every Year lyrics

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My Christmas list grows shorter every year things just aren't the way they were before

My Christmas list grows shorter every year it's almost not like Christmas anymore

I guess it's cause I came from a pretty big family

Christmas was always a big happy time

We used to swap presents with aunts uncles and cousins

Course most of the presents just came from the five and dime

I remember how I used to get such a big kick out of wrappin'

Just a simple little box and placin' it under the tree

Everybody at my house used to laugh and said that I was born

With a little too much of the spirit of Christmas in me

I left home a few years ago now and it seemed then that things started to change

Mom passed on now daddy's gone Christmases seem sorta strange

Sister ran off with some weird kinda guy I never did understand him too much

My kid brother's off somewhere in the service

And he never was the kind to stay in touch

Course I started my own family a few years ago

My wife and I had two of the cutest little girls

I ha ha remember last Christmas I really went wild

I bought them just about everything in the whole wide world

And I remember on the Christmas Eve night I took 'em upon my lap

And I told them the story of Jesus

And the Santa Claus and the eight tiny reindeer

All I wish now is the spirit of Christmas could have lingered throughout the whole year

You see my wife left me back in September the kids are with her I don't know where

I'd love to just send them a small Christmas card

To let them know that daddy does care

Cause Christmas is a time for sharing your gifts and your heart

With the ones that you love the best

But sittin' here tonight lookin' at this big sheet of paper

I don't even have one single address

My Christmas list grows shorter every year oh what I'd give to just go back in time

My Christmas list grows shorter every year the only name that's left this year is mine