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| - %22Christmas Is Coming%22 is a nursery rhyme and American Christmas carol (frequently sung as a round) with lyrics as follows:Christmas is coming, the geese are getting fat(also, ... the goose is getting fat)Please do put a penny in the old man's hatIf you haven't got a penny, a ha'penny will doIf you haven't got a ha'penny, then God bless you!A variant has the final line as %22If you have no ha'penny, then God bless you!%22 Another variant is %22Please to put a penny in the old man's hat%22 in the second line.The traditional version of this song uses the melody of the English dance tune %22Country Gardens%22, but other melodies exist. The Kingston Trio recorded the song as %22A Round About Christmas%22, on their album The Last Month of the Year. A calypso sounding version of the carol was featured on the album John Denver and the Muppets: A Christmas Together and a loose, jazzy piano-based arrangement was featured in the musical score of A Charlie Brown Christmas. The rhyme also became the basis for the song '%22Christmas Is a-Comin'%22, re-written by Frank Luther and performed by Bing Crosby, among others; this song contains the following lyrics:When I'm feeling blue, when I'm feeling low,I start to think about the happiest man I know.Now he doesn't mind the snow, he doesn't mind the rain,But all December you will hear him at your window pane,Singing again and again and again and again and again:Christmas is a coming and the bells begin to ring,The holly's in the window and the birds begin to sing.I don't need to worry, and I don't need to fret,And the more you give at Christmastime the more you get.God bless you, gentlemen, God bless you!The more you give at Christmastime the more you get.Christmas is a coming, the egg is in the nog.Please give a friendly man a friendly little dog.If you haven't got a friendly dog, a friendly cat will do,If you haven't got a friendly cat may God bless you!God bless you, gentlemen, God bless you!If you haven't got a friendly cat may God bless you!Christmas is a coming, the lights are on the tree.How about a turkey leg for dear old me?If you haven't got a turkey leg, a turkey wing will do.If you haven't got a turkey wing may God bless you!God bless you, gentlemen, God bless you!If you haven't got a turkey wing may God bless you!Christmas is a coming, the cider's in the keg.If I had a mug of cider I wouldn't have to beg.If you haven't got a mug of cider, half a mug will do.If you haven't got half a mug, may God bless you!God bless you, gentlemen, God bless you!If you haven't got half a mug, may God bless you!If you haven't got a thing for me, may God bless you!
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