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Artist/Band: Bill Anderson
Lyrics for Song: My Christmas List Grows Shorter Every Year
Lyrics for Album: No Place Like Home on Christmas [Varese] [2002]



(Bill Anderson)



My Christmas list grows shorter every year

Things just aren't the way they were before

My Christmas list grows shorter every year

It's almost not like Christmas anymore.



I guess it's 'cause I came from a pretty big family

Christmas was always a big happy time

We used to swap presents with aunts, uncles and cousins

Course most of the presents just came from the five and dime.



I remember how I used to get such a big kick out of wrappin'

Just a simple little box and placin' it under the tree

Everybody at my house used to laugh and said that I was born

With a little too much of the spirit of Christmas in me.



I left home a few years ago, now

And it seemed then that things started to change

Mom passed on, now daddy's gone

Christmases seem sorta strange.



Sister ran off with some weird kinda guy

I never did understand him too much

My kid brother's off somewhere in the service

And he never was the kind to stay in touch.



Course I started my own family a few years ago

My wife and I had two of the cutest little girls

I, ha, ha, remember last Christmas I really went wild

I bought them just about everything in the whole wide world.



And I remember on the Christmas Eve night

I took 'em upon my lap

And I told them the story of Jesus

And the Santa Claus and the eight tiny reindeer

All I wish now is the spirit of Christmas

Could have lingered throughout the whole year.



You see my wife left me back in September

The kids are with her I don't know where

I'd love to just send them a small Christmas card

To let them know that daddy does care.



'Cause Christmas is a time for sharing your gifts

And your heart with the ones that you love the best

But sittin' here tonight lookin' at this big sheet of paper

I don't even have one single address.



My Christmas list grows shorter every year

Oh, what I'd give to just go back in time

My Christmas list grows shorter every year

The only name that's left this year is mine...


Album Lyrics: No Place Like Home on Christmas [Varese] [2002]


Bill Anderson
"No Place Like Home on Christmas [Varese] [2002]"


1. Christmas Time's A-Comin'
2. Blue Christmas
3. Silver Bells
4. Po' Folks Christmas
5. My Christmas List Grows Shorter Every Year
6. Santa Claus Is Coming to Town
7. Christmas in Your Arms
8. One Solitary Life (Silent Night)