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The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire)

This version of The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire) was released by John Denver in 1975.

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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 loaded lots of toys and goodies on his sleigh.
And every mother’s child is gonna 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:
Although it’s been said many times, many ways, “Merry Christmas to you.”

They know that Santa’s on his way, he’s loaded lots of toys and goodies on his sleigh.
And every mother’s child is gonna 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:
Although it’s been said many times, many ways, “Merry Christmas to you.”
“Merry Christmas to you.”

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When you decide to study the lyrics to The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire), you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1975 song by John Denver. Some of the lyrics to The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire) have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only John Denver and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire) 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 (Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire)" means the words set to the music of The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire), 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 The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire) and the lyrics to The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire) 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 The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire), but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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