It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas
Original performer
Meredith Willson
Writer
Mitchell Ayres & His Orchestra
Performers
Perry Como and The Fontane Sisters
Source
"It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas " is a Christmas song written in 1951 by Meredith Willson. A version of the song appeared in the 2004 animated film The Polar Express performed by Perry Como with The Fontane Sisters.
Lyrics [ ]
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas
Ev'rywhere you go
Take a look in the five-and-ten,
Glistening once again
With candy canes and silver lanes aglow.
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas
Toys in ev'ry store
But the prettiest sight to see
Is the holly that will be
On your own front door.
A pair of hopalong boots and a pistol that shoots
Is the wish of Barney and Ben
Dolls that will talk and will go for a walk
Is the hope of Janice and Jen
And mom and dad can hardly wait
For school to start again.
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas
Ev'rywhere you go
Now, there's a tree in the Grand Hotel
One in the park as well
The sturdy kind that doesn't mind the snow.
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas
Soon the bells will start
And the thing that will make them ring
Is the carol that you sing
Right within your heart.
(instrumental break)
A pair of hopalong boots and a pistol that shoots
Is the wish of Barney and Ben
Dolls that will talk and will go for a walk
Is the hope of Janice and Jen
And mom and dad can hardly wait
For school to start again.
Ah ha, ha ha, ha ha, ha ha
Ha ha, ha ha, ha ha
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas
Soon the bells will start
And the thing that will make them ring
Is the carol that you sing
Right within your heart.
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