Lyrics to
Little Saint Nick

This version of Little Saint Nick was released by John Denver in 1979.

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Oo, merry Christmas, Santa only comes this time each year, oooo.
Well, way up north where the air gets cold,
there’s a tale about Christmas that you’ve all been told.
And a real famous cat all dressed up in red,
and he spends the whole year working out on his sled,
it’s a little Saint Nick, it’s a little Saint Nick.

Just a little bobsled, calls it old Saint Nick,
But he sparks the buggy with a full speed stick.
He’s candy apple red with a ski for a wheel,
Then he gives gas and just watch him peel, yeah,
it’s a little Saint Nick, it’s a little Saint Nick.

Run run reindeer, run run reindeer, run run reindeer,
run run reindeer, run run run, yeah!

He’s rolling through the snow at a frightful speed
with a half dozen deer with Rudy to lead.
He’s gotta wear his goggle cause the snow really flies,
and he’s cruising every path with a little surprise,
it’s a little Saint Nick, it’s a little Saint Nick.

Oo, merry Christmas, Santa only comes this time each year,
(run run run run reindeer!)
Oo, merry Christmas, Santa only comes this time each year,
(run run run run reindeer!)
Oo, merry Christmas, Santa only comes this time each year,
(run run run run reindeer!) all right, that’s nice. Sorry.

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About Lyrics and Little Saint Nick by John Denver

The lyrics for Little Saint Nick are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1979 song by John Denver. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Little Saint Nick have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for Little Saint Nick - John Denver and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to Little Saint Nick by John Denver in multiple ways. 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 Saint Nick" means the words set to the music of Little Saint Nick, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by John Denver. 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 Saint Nick and the lyrics to Little Saint Nick are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of John Denver who came here looking just for the lyrics to Little Saint Nick, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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