Getting Ready for Christmas Day

From early in November to the last week of December

I got money matters weighing me down

Oh, the music may be merry, but it's only temporary

I know Santa Claus is coming to town

In the days, I work my day job, in the nights, I work my night

But it all comes down to working man's pay

Getting ready, I'm getting ready

Ready for Christmas Day

Getting ready for Christmas

Now let me tell you, namely, the undertaker

He's getting ready for your body

Not only that, the jailer

He's getting ready for you Christmas day

Hmm? And not only the jailer

But the lawyer, the police force

Now getting ready for Christmas day

And I want you to bear it in mind

I got a nephew in Iraq, it's his third time back

But it's ending up the way it began

With the luck of a beginner, he'll be eating turkey dinner

On some mountaintop in Pakistan

Getting ready, oh, we're getting ready

For the power and the glory and the story of the Christmas day

Getting ready, for Christmas day

Done made it up in your mind that I'm going

New York, Philadelphia, Chicago

I'm going, on a trip

Getting ready for Christmas day

But when Christmas come, nobody knows

Where you'll be, you might ask me

I may be laying

In some lonesome grave

Getting ready for Christmas day

Getting ready, oh we're getting ready

For the power and the glory and the story of the Christmas day

Yes, we're getting ready, ready (Getting ready, ready for your prayers)

I'm going and see my relatives in a distant land

Getting ready, getting ready

For Christmas day, easy now

If I could tell my Mom and Dad that the things we never had

Never mattered, we were always okay

Getting ready, oh, ready

Ready for Christmas day

Ready, getting ready

For the power and the glory and the story of the Christmas day