《How Long Can This Go On》歌词

[00:00:06] One very familiar type of song is the christmas carol

[00:00:09] Although it is perhaps a bit out of season at this time

[00:00:10] However

[00:00:10] I'm informed by my disk jockey friends of whom I have none

[00:00:11] In order to get a song popular by christmas time

[00:00:13] You have to start plugging it well in advance

[00:00:14] So here goes

[00:00:15] It has always seemed to me after all

[00:00:16] That christmas

[00:00:17] With its spirit of giving

[00:00:18] O

[00:00:18] Us all a wonderful opportunity each year to reflect on what

[00:00:20] We all most sincerely and deeply believe in

[00:00:21] I refer of course

[00:00:21] To money

[00:00:22] And yet none of the christmas carols

[00:00:25] That you hear on the radio or in the street

[00:00:27] Even attempt to capture the true spirit of christmas

[00:00:30] As we celebrate it in the unit

[00:00:31] Ates

[00:00:31] That is to say the commercial spirit

[00:00:33] So I should like to offer the following christmas carol for next year

[00:00:37] As being perhaps a bit more appropriate

[00:00:38] Christmas time is here

[00:00:39] By golly

[00:00:39] Disapproval would be folly

[00:00:40] Deck the halls with hunks of holly

[00:00:42] Fill the cup and don't say when

[00:00:43] Kill the turkeys

[00:00:43] Ducks and chickens

[00:00:45] Mix the punch

[00:00:45] Drag out the d**kens

[00:00:46] Even though the prospect sickens

[00:00:48] Brother

[00:00:48] Here we go again

[00:00:49] On christmas day you can't get sore

[00:00:51] Your fellow man you must adore

[00:00:51] There's time to rob him all the more

[00:00:53] The other three hundred and sixty four

[00:00:55] Relations

[00:00:55] Sparing no expense'll

[00:00:55] Send some useless old utensil

[00:00:56] Or a matching pen and pencil

[00:00:57] Just the thing I need

[00:00:58] How nice

[00:00:58] It doesn't matter how sincere it

[00:00:59] Is

[00:01:38] Nor how heartfelt the spirit

[00:01:39] Sentiment will not endear it

[00:01:40] What's important is the price

[00:01:41] Hark the herald tribune sings

[00:01:42] Advertising wondrous things

[00:01:43] God rest ye merry

[00:01:44] Merchants

[00:01:44] May you make the yuletide pay

[00:01:46] Angels we have heard on high

[00:01:47] Tell us to go out and buy

[00:01:49] So let the raucous sleigh bells jingle

[00:01:51] Hail our dear old friend kris kringle

[00:01:53] Driving his reindeer across the sky

[00:01:54] Don't stand underneath when they fly by

[00:01:56] Actually I did rather well myself

[00:01:57] This last christmas

[00:01:58] The nicest present I received was a gift certificate

[00:02:03] Good at any hospital for a lobotomy

[00:02:06] Rather thoughtful