Parade Of The Wooden Soldiers

PARADE OF THE WOODEN SOLDIERS
W: Ballard MacDonald
M: Leon Jessel
Harry Connick Jr.
Key: C

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The toy shop door is locked up tight
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And ev-‘ry-thing is qui-et for the night
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When sud-den-ly
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The clock strikes twelve
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The fun’s be-gun

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The dolls are in their best ar-rayed
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There’s going to be a won-der-ful pa-rade
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Hark to the drum
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Oh, here they come cries ev-‘ry-one

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Hear them all cheer-ing
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Now they are near-ing
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There’s the cap-tain stiff as starch
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Bay-o-net’s flash-ing
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Mu-sic is crash-ing
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As the wood-en sold-iers march
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Sab-res a-clink-ing
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Sol-diers a-wink-ing
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At each pret-ty lit-tle maid

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Here they come, here they come
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Here they come, here they come
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Wood-en sol-diers on pa-rade

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Day-light is creep-ing,
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doll-ies are sleep-ing
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in the toy shop win-dow fast
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sol-diers so jol-ly
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think of each dol-ly
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Dream-ing of the night that’s past
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when in the morn-ing
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with-out a warn-ing
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Toy-man pulls the win-dow shade
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there’s no sign the Wood bri-gade
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was ev-er out up-on pa-rade