Pretty paper 漂亮的纸

Pretty ribbons of blue. 蓝色的漂亮的丝带。

   

[Spoken:] Man oh man, [口语： ]人哦男人，

I just love Christmas it's just so darn neat. 我只是喜欢圣诞节实在太混账整齐。

I kinda wish every day was Christmas, 我还挺希望每天都是圣诞节，

Except Christmas eve and the Fourth of July. 除圣诞节前夕及七月四日。

We wouldn't want to miss out on the fireworks, would we? 我们不想错过烟花，将我们？

When I was a kid, we used to get the Christmas catalog from Montgomery Wards in Chicago. 当我还是个孩子的时候，我们曾经得到的圣诞产品目录蒙哥马利沃兹在芝加哥。

Sometimes we'd get it as early as late August. 有时候，我们会早在8月下旬得到它。

It was the big book of wishes, hopes and desires. 这是愿望，希望和欲望的大书。

My three brothers and I were allotted twenty-five bucks a piece, including tax. 我的三个哥哥和我配发25块钱一张，含税。

So I'd make up a different Christmas list every night 所以，我会做一个不同的圣诞节清单每晚

From the first of September 'til the twenty-forth of December. 从9月1日的，直到二十月提出的。

Matter of fact, let me present you with my Christmas credentials. 其实事情，让我送给你我的圣诞凭据。

When I was three years old, at least that's what my mother told me, 当我三岁的时候，至少这就是我的妈妈告诉我，

I ate an entire ornament. I ate a big red one, I thought it was an apple. 我吃了一个完整的装饰品。我吃了一个大红色的，我认为这是一个苹果。

They kinda freaked out and was gonna take me to the hospital 他们有点吓坏了，并要带我去医院

But they couldn't stop me from laughing so they just left me alone. 但他们无法从笑所以他们只是留下我一个人阻止我。

So I guess I still got that Christmas in me all the time, you know? 所以我想我还是得到了所有的时间在圣诞节我，你知道吗？

   

One year, I got a wooden Roly-Poly for Christmas, 有一年，我得到了一个木制不倒翁圣诞节，

You know the things you knock down and they bounce right back up. 你知道的东西，你击倒，他们反弹回来了。

They made 'em out of wood back then, that's how old I am. 他们把时间了木材回去以后，这就是我老了。

Nowadays, they make 'em out of plastic. 如今，他们做全身出胶。

My mom says, "They just don't make 'em like that anymore." 我妈妈说， “他们只是不要让全身像了。”

And I says, "No ma, they don't". 我说：“不麻，他们不” 。

   

Then there was the year I came home only eave from the army, 再有就是，我回家只能从屋檐军队的一年，

From Germany to marry my high school sweetheart on the day after Christmas. 从德国到圣诞节后的一天嫁给我高中时的恋人。

My little brother Billy, who was twelve at the time, 我的小兄弟比利，谁是12的时候，

Had just gotten his first job so he was able to afford to buy some Christmas presents 刚刚得到了他的第一份工作，所以他能买得起一些圣诞礼物

For his brothers and his mom and dad out of his own pocket. 对于他的兄弟和他的妈妈和爸爸出了自己的口袋。

Billy had a job selling subscriptions for the Chicago Tribune. 比利有一份推销订阅的芝加哥论坛报。

He told me this guy named Rocky would pick him up in a station wagon, 他告诉我，这家伙叫洛基会接他的旅行车，

Him and some other boys, and he'd take 'em out to some strange neighborhood 他和其他一些男孩，他会带着他们去了一些奇怪的邻居

And drop 'em off and he gave them this whole spiel to give their potential customers. 和他们摔坏了，他给了他们这个整体高谈阔论给他们的潜在客户。

Supposedly their little brother had won a free trip to our nation's capital Washington, D.C., 据说他们的小弟弟已经赢得了自由之旅对我们国家的首都华盛顿特区，

But he couldn't go on the trip if his older brother wouldn't accompany him 但他不能走就行了，如果他的哥哥就不会陪他

So if you would please buy a subscription to the Chicago Tribune then my little brother will be happy. 所以，如果你想购买，请订阅芝加哥论坛报，然后我弟弟会很高兴。

Wow, what a shyster! Some people'll do anything to get to the Whitehouse. 哇，好讼棍！有些peoplell做任何事情去了白宫。

   

Then there was the year that my mom and dad gave me my first guitar. 再有就是，我的妈妈和爸爸给我的第一把吉他的一年。

Ah man it was gorgeous, I still got the thing. It was a like aqua blue. Kinda dark aqua blue with a cream colored heart. 阿满是华丽的，我还有事。这是一个像水蓝色。有点暗水蓝色与米色的心脏。

Was a Silvertone from Montgomery Wards. The model was called Kentucky Blue and man when I saw that sitting under the tree I just couldn't wait. 从蒙哥马利病房à银通。该模型被称为肯塔基蓝人，当我看到坐在树下我简直等不及了。

First year so I didn't know how to play it, 第一年，所以我不知道该怎么玩，

I'd just stand in front of the mirror with a string around my neck with that guitar and I'd try to look like Elvis. 我只是站在镜子前用在我的脖子与吉他弦，我想尝试看起来像猫王。

Then my brother Dave taught me a couple of chords, 然后我的弟弟大卫教我几个和弦的，

Now I'm here in your living room singing and talking to you. 现在，我在这里在你的客厅里唱歌和你说话。

It's funny how things work out. 这是有趣的事情是如何工作的。

   

So-a whyn't you go find a stranger and extend your hand to 'em. 因此， -A whynt你去找一个陌生人，你的手延伸到他们。

If you see somebody looks like they ain't doin' quite as well as you, slip 'em a buck, 如果你看到某人的样子，他们不上来的相当以及你，溜时间降压，

'specially if they don't ask for spare change. “特别是如果他们不要求零钱。

Go buy your honey a cuckoo clock or a musical snow shaking water ball, 去购买你的蜂蜜布谷鸟时钟或音乐的雪颤抖水球，

That when you wind it up it plays, 当你风它是戏剧，

"I want you, I need you, I love ya with all my heart." “我想你，我需要你，我爱你用我所有的心脏。 ”

'cause after all, hell man, it's Christmas. 因为毕竟，地狱的人，这是圣诞节。

   

Away in a manger no crib for a bed. 客场在马槽里没有床的床。

The little Lord Jesus lay down his sweet head. 小主耶稣放下他那甜美的头上。

The stars in the sky look down where he lay. 天上的星星往下看躺在那里。

The little Lord Jesus asleep on the (1-2) hay. 小小的主耶稣睡在（ 1-2）干草。

   

[Spoken:] Merry Christmas Everybody. [口语： ]圣诞快乐大家。