It Was The Night Before Christmas Lyrics

It Was The Night Before Christmas lyrics

Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house,
Not a creature
was stirring, not even a mouse.
The stockings were hung by the chimney with
care,
In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there.

And mamma in
her 'kerchief, and I in my cap,
Had just settled down for a long winter's
nap.

When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter,
I sprang from
my bed to see what was the matter.
Away to the window I flew like a
flash,
Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash.

The moon on the
breast of the new-fallen snow,
Gave the lustre of mid-day to objects
below,
When what to my wondering eye should appear,
But a miniature
sleigh and eight tiny reindeer.

With a little old driver, so lively and
quick,
I knew in a moment it must be St. Nick.
More rapid than eagles his
coursers they came,
And he whistled and shouted, and called them by
name.

Now, Dasher! Now, Dancer! Now Prancer, and Vixen!
On Comet! On
Cupid! On Donder and Blitzen!

To the top of the porch!To the top of the
wall!

Now dash away! Dash away, dash away!
Dash away! Dash away, dash
away!

So up to the house-top the coursers they flew,
With the sleigh
full of toys and St. Nicholas too.
And then, in a twinkling, I heard on the
roof,
The prancing and pawing of each little hoof.

As I drew in my
head, and was turning around,
Down the chimney he came with a
bound.

He was dressed all in fur, from his head to his foot,
And his
clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot.
A bundle of toys he had
flung on his back,
And he looked like a peddler just opening his
pack.

His eyes, how they twinkled, his dimples how merry!
His cheeks
were like roses, his nose like a cherry!
His droll little mouth was drawn up
like a bow,
And the beard on his chin was as white as the snow.

The
stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth,
And the smoke it encircled his
head like a wreath.

He had a broad face and a little round
belly,
That shook when he laughed, like a bowl full of jelly.
He was
chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf,
And I laughed when I saw him, in
spite of myself.

A wink of his eye and a twist of his head,
Soon gave
me to know I had nothing to dread.

He spoke not a word but went straight
to his work,
And filled all the stockings, then turned with a jerk,
And
laying his finger aside of his nose,
And giving a nod, up the chimney he
rose.

He sprang to his sleigh to his team gave a whistle,
And away
they all flew like the down of a thistle.
But I heard him exclaim, as he
drove out of sight,

Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas to all! (8x)