Lyrics to
Little Christmas Tree

This version of Little Christmas Tree was released by Jackson 5 in 1970.

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I watch the snowflakes fall
Against my window pane
And wonder if you
Are watching snowflakes, too.
I take a walk downtown
To where you used to meet me
There’s joy everywhere
But all that’s waiting there is

Just a little Chistmas tree
Looking sort of sad and lonely just like me
No one seems to care
They just went away and left it standing there
All alone on Christmas Eve.

I hear the Christmas bells
The happy people singing
The songs of good cheer
That only brings me tears
I sadly close my eyes
And say a little prayer
You’ll be waiting there for me
I look but all I see is

Just a little Chistmas tree
Looking sort of sad and lonely just like me
No one seems to care
They just went away and left it standing there
All alone on Christmas Eve.

This is the season of love
But I’m as sad as I can be
Why did you have to leave me
Why, why did you have to leave me

Oh, little Chistmas tree
Looking sort of sad and lonely just like me
No one seems to care
They just went away and left it standing there
All alone on Christmas Eve.

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Jackson 5 has released many songs over the years besides Little Christmas Tree. Jackson 5 released songs from 1969 to 1979 spanning across albums like Diana Ross Presents The Jackson 5, ABC, Third Album, Christmas Album, Maybe Tomorrow, Goin' Back To Indiana, Lookin' Through The Windows, In Japan, Skywriter, G.I.T.: Get It Together, Dancing Machine, Moving Violation, Joyful Jukebox Music, and Boogie. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Jackson 5.

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When you decide to study the lyrics to Little Christmas Tree, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1970 song by Jackson 5. Some of the lyrics to Little Christmas Tree have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Jackson 5 and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Little Christmas Tree if you take apart the structure of the words. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Little Christmas Tree" means the words set to the music of Little Christmas Tree, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Jackson 5. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Little Christmas Tree and the lyrics to Little Christmas Tree are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Jackson 5 who came here looking just for the lyrics to Little Christmas Tree, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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