Lyrics to
The Christmas Song

This version of The Christmas Song was released by Jackson 5 in 1970.

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Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas to… you
Chestnuts roasting on an open fire
Jack Frost nipping at your nose
Yuletide carols being sung by a choir
And folks dressed up like Eskimos

Everybody knows a turkey and some mistletoe
Help to make the season bright
Tiny tots with their eyes all aglow
Will find it hard to sleep tonight

They know that Santa’s on his way
He’s bringing lots of toys and goodies on his sleigh
And every mother’s child is on the spy
To see if reindeer really know how to fly

And so, I’m offering this simple phrase
To kids from one to ninety-two
Though it has been said many times, many ways

Merry Christmas (Merry Christmas)
Merry Christmas (Merry Christmas)
Merry Christmas to… you

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Jackson 5 has released many songs over the years besides The Christmas Song. 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 The Christmas Song by Jackson 5

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

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