Lyrics to
Santa Claus Is Comin’ To Town

This version of Santa Claus Is Comin’ To Town was released by Jackson 5 in 1970.

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Santa Claus is comin’ to town
Santa Claus is comin’ to town

You d better watch out
You d better not cry
You’d better not pout
I m telling you why

Santa Claus is comin’ to town
Santa Claus is comin’ to town
Santa Claus is comin’ to town

He is making a list
And checking it twice
Gonna find out who’s naughty and nice

Santa Claus is comin’ to town
Santa Claus is comin’ to town
Santa Claus is comin’ to town

He sees you when you re sleeping
He knows when you re awake
He knows if you ve been bad or good
So be good for goodness sake

Oh, you d better watch out
You d better not cry
Better not pout
I m telling you why

Oh! Santa Claus is comin’ to town
Santa Claus is comin’ to town
Santa Claus is comin’ to town

Santa Claus is comin’ to town
Santa Claus is comin’ to town
Santa Claus is comin’ to town

Little tin horns
And little toy drums
Rooty-toot-toot
And rump-a-tum-tum
Curly-haired dolls
That tootle and coo
Elephants, boats and kiddie cars too

Oh! Santa Claus is comin’ to town
Santa Claus is comin’ to town
Santa Claus is comin’ to town

One more time now…

Santa Claus is comin’ to town
Santa Claus is comin’ to town
Santa Claus is comin’ to town

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Jackson 5 has released many songs over the years besides Santa Claus Is Comin’ To Town. 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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About Lyrics and Santa Claus Is Comin’ To Town by Jackson 5

When you decide to study the lyrics to Santa Claus Is Comin’ To Town, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1970 song by Jackson 5. Some of the lyrics to Santa Claus Is Comin’ To Town 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 Santa Claus Is Comin’ To Town 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 Santa Claus Is Comin’ To Town" means the words set to the music of Santa Claus Is Comin’ To Town, 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 Santa Claus Is Comin’ To Town and the lyrics to Santa Claus Is Comin’ To Town 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 Santa Claus Is Comin’ To Town, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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