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from A Christmas Story

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Ah, there it is, my house
and good old Cleveland Street
How could I ever forget it?
And there I am, with that dumb round face and
that stupid stocking cap
But no matter, Christmas was on its way
Lovely, glorious, beautiful Christmas
around which the entire kid year revolved

Downtown Hohman was prepared for
its yearly bacchanalia of
peace on earth and good will to men
Higbees' corner window was traditionally
a high-water mark of the pre-Christmas season
First nighters, packed earmuff to earmuff
jostled in wonderment
before a golden tinkling display
of mechanized, electronic joy

Wow, there it is
the holy grail of Christmas gifts
the Red Ryder 200-shot range model air rifle.
And there he is
Red Ryder himself
In his hand was the knurled stock of as coolly deadly-looking
a piece of weaponry as ever I had laid eyes on

For weeks, I had been scheming
to get my mitts on one of these
fearsome blue-steel beauties
My fevered brain seethed
with the effort of
trying to come up with the infinitely subtle devices
necessary to implant
the Red Ryder range model air rifle indelibly
into my parents' subconscious

Wow, there it is
the holy grail of Christmas gifts
the Red Ryder 200-shot range model air rifle.
And there he is
Red Ryder himself
In his hand was the knurled stock of as coolly deadly-looking
a piece of weaponry as ever I had laid eyes on

Tonight

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from Colburn Christmas Hits, released December 22, 2015
lyrics by Jean Shepherd, Leigh Brown, and Bob Clark
music by Colburn Sound Express

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Colburn Sound Express New York, New York

We moved to the Big City hoping to make it! Now that we made it, we've collected all we made into a "Master Hits" collection. All the best recordings in one place!

Thank you for listening! Be sure to stay young at heart and you'll live forever! ... more

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