Music spills into the street
I’m so busy shuffling my feet
And my girl declares
My girl declares
She finds beauty everywhere
Everywhere

Music spills into the street
Someone’s found a horn but they can’t find the beat
And my girl declares
My girl declares
She finds beauty everywhere
Everywhere

Merry Christmas darling
Take care of the living
Merry Christmas angel
Never be a stranger
Merry Christmas darling
Take care of the living
Merry Christmas baby
Turn a ‘no’ into a ‘maybe’

It came home without a warning
December clouds were forming
Everywhere

Music fills the high and the low
I remember that one from so long ago
And my girl declares
My girl declares
She finds beauty everywhere

So Merry Christmas darling
Take care of the living
Merry Christmas angel
Never be a stranger
Merry Christmas darling
Take care of the living
Merry Christmas baby
Turn a ‘no’ into a ‘maybe’

And if Charles Mingus could raise his bass fingers
We’d all find beauty everywhere
But we’re otherwise occupied
We’re otherwise occupied

Notes:
The intro voices were recorded in downtown Sudbury
on the coldest day in January 1985.
Elsewhere can be heard the Thunderbirds.