Please Daddy, Don’t Get Drunk This XMas

(Don’t Get Drunk This Christmas)
by: Bill Danoff & Taffy Nivert
Alan Jackson, John Denver
Key: C

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Please Dad-dy
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don’t get drunk this Christ-mas
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I don’t wan-na see my Mom-ma cry
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Please Dad-dy
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don’t get drunk this Christ-mas
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I don’t wan-na see my Mom-ma cry

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Just last year when I was on-ly sev-en
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Now I’m al-most eight, as you can see
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You came home at quar-ter past e-lev-en
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And fell down un-der-neath
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our Christ-mas tree

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Please Dad-dy
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don’t get drunk this Christ-mas
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I don’t wan-na see my Mom-ma cry
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Please Dad-dy
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don’t get drunk this Christ-mas
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I don’t wan-na see my Mom-ma cry

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Ma-ma smiled and looked
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Out thru the win-dow
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She told me son
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You’d bet-ter get up-stairs
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Then you laughed and hol-lered
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“Mer-ry Christ-mas”
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I turned a-round and saw
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My Mom-ma’s tears

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Please Dad-dy
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don’t get drunk this Christ-mas
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I don’t wan-na see my Mom-ma cry
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Please Dad-dy
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don’t get drunk this Christ-mas
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I don’t wan-na see my Mom-ma cry