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Shouldn't Have Given Him A Gun For Christmas

There’s been snow-covered Christmases
And ones just of rain
Of smoked hams and warm bread
And shiny toy trains
And though they’ve always been different
They’ve all been the best
Yet there’s one I remember
More tenderly than all the rest…

It all began with Uncle Jack
He made a crack and wouldn’t take it back
Dad was drinkin’; he got sore
There was a flash, an awful crash
It took the manger on the floor!

Shouldn’t have given him a gun for Christmas
Shouldn’t have given him a gun, gun, gun
Shouldn’t have given him a gun for Christmas
Look what Daddy has done, done, done!

He put two slugs in the neighbour’s door
And kicked apart the manger scene
The plastic Baby Jesus he blew to smithereens
I can’t think of all the nine year olds who won’t be seein’ ten
Or how he went-a caroling to the doors of now dead men!

Ahhhhhhhhh! Shouldn’t have given him a gun for Christmas
Shouldn’t have given him a gun, gun, gun
Shouldn’t have given him a gun for Christmas
Look what Daddy has done, done, done!
Shouldn’t have given him a gun for Christmas
Shouldn’t have given him a gun, gun, gun
Shouldn’t have given him a gun for Christmas
Look what Daddy has done, done, done!

Oh Tannenbaum! Oh Tannenbaum!
The geese ein Ine a bummin’
My name is soon a when the sun is shine
What I convince a veener schnite
Oh Tannenbaum! Oh Tannenbaum!
The geese ein Ine a bummin’
Of course I can repeat those right along in now but…

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAH!!!!!!!
Shouldn’t have given him a gun for Christmas
Shouldn’t have given him a gun, gun, gun
Shouldn’t have given him a gun for Christmas
Look what Daddy has done, done, done!
Shouldn’t have given him a gun for Christmas
Shouldn’t have given him a gun, gun, gun
Shouldn’t have given him a gun for Christmas
Look what Daddy has done, done, done!
Shouldn’t have given him a gun for Christmas
Shouldn’t have given him a gun, gun, gun
Shouldn’t have given him a gun for Christmas
Look what Daddy has done, done, done!
Shouldn’t have given him a gun for Christmaaaaaaaaaaaaas
Look what Daddy has done, done, done!
Shouldn’t have given him a gun for Christmas
Shouldn’t have given him a gun, gun, gun
Shouldn’t have given him a gun for Christmas
Look what Daddy has done, done, done!
Shouldn’t have given him a gun for Christmaaaaaaaaaaaaas
Look what Daddy has done, done, done!