Well I only got a sweater for Christmas
Not the
best thing to get for a dreamer
Because I
got a sweater for Christmas
When I
wanted a moaner or a screamer
Well I only got a sweater for Christmas
Not the
best thing to get for a dreamer
Because I
got a sweater for Christmas
When I
wanted a moaner or a screamer
For Christmas I bought my Auntie
A brand new
wooden leg
I didn’t
have it specially made
No I just
got it off the peg
You may say
it’s not a nice gift
Or even
that it’s a killer
It wasn’t
her main present though
It was just
a stocking filler
At last I have some time to spare
No more work
until the New Year
Its nearly
Christmas so beware
The
weather's bitter so have a care
Peace and
goodwill and never fear
A wish for
one and all for the coming year
“The Shop
Around the Corner” is a romantic comedy, based on a play by Nikolaus Laszlo and Directed by Ernst Lubitsch.
In
Budapest, Hungary, Matuschek and Company’s gift store is owned by Mr. Hugo
Matuschek (Frank Morgan) and bachelor Alfred Kralik (James Stewart) is his best
and most experienced salesman.
But
everything seems to go awry when Klara Novak (Margaret Sullavan) is hired by Mr
Matuschek, but from the first moment Kralik and she meet they do not get along.
Over the
weeks that follows the lonely and dedicated Kralik has an anonymous pen pal and
through their correspondence he falls in love with her and intends to propose
to her.
Simultaneously
however his relationship with his employer deteriorates and he is fired without
explanation by Mr Matuschek on the very same night that he is going to meet his
secret love and propose.
He goes to
the bar that night regardless where they have scheduled their meeting with his
colleague Pirovitch (Felix Bressart) and he surprisingly finds that Klara is
his correspondent, however he chooses not disclose his identity to her because
he feels ashamed after being sacked.
But
following a shocking incident, involving salesman Ferencz Vadas (Joseph
Schildkraut), shop boy Pepi Katona (William Tracy) and Matuschek himself, he has a change of heart and hires
Kralik back again but this time to manage the shop.
However as
Klara is still fascinated with her correspondent she pays little or no
attention to Alfred so it would take all his guile and cunning to work out a
plan to reveal himself to Klara who exactly he is.
But
anything is possible, it is Christmas after all and everyone loves a happy
ending.
Are you wearing a green Christmas outfit?
You look
very beautiful in it
In fact you
look very cute
In your
Santa’s little helper suit
A Christmas
hat sits atop your curls
In a way
only suited to girls
A beautiful
green velvet dress
And white
fur trim to impress
Striped
woollen legs of green and white
Are they
stocking or tights?
Stockings
would be in reason
More in
keeping with the season
But I would
not disparage woolly tights
They too
have their own delights
Come and
help me trim the tree
And say you
dressed this way for me?
In the nineteenth century
At
Christmas time
The old
queen, Victoria
Gave, to
her senior staff
And closest
friends
A specially
commissioned
Victorian
Christmas pie
An
extraordinary example
Of culinary
magnificence
The pie
consisted firstly
Of a
woodcock
Small and
plump
Which was
then stuffed inside
A well hung
and gamey pheasant
Which in
its turn
Was stuffed
inside
A fat corn
fed chicken
As if this
was not enough
The chicken
itself was then
Stuffed
into a huge Turkey
Until
Finally
The great
weight of fowl
Was placed
upon a dish
And
surrounded by special stuffing
And baked
beneath
The richest
pastry crust
Here is a thought of little worth
Snowmen
start their fall to earth
From
Heaven above unassembled
And like a snow globe it resembled
But if a snowman were then desired
Some assembly would be required