Tune: Silver Bells
City Sidewalks, Busy Sidewalks
Been replaced by the mall
Where the parking’s just awful and ba-ad
Fights will break out
Cops are called out
O the mall is the place
Where corporations all strut their stuff!
O their malls
They appall
Nothing about them says Christmas
Only ding-a-lings bring
Themselves to shop there today
2) If you must shop
Then you should shop
Craft shows, church bazares
Where the sellers made all of the presents
Or some online third world giftings
Like a goat or a well
That’s the sprit of giving – that’s SWELL!
But the mall
It appalls
Do not take part in its furor
Ding-a-lings buy their things
But Christmas day doesn’t mean THAT!

Tune: Have A Holly Jolly Christmas
O the Grinch has joined our Christmas
Just like Frosty, Rudoph, Scrooge
Characters from TV specials
Ah, the cast is getting huge
Homer Simpson’s in the lineup
Wearing Santa’s hat with glee
Christmas is more confusing now
From the way it used to be
O ho the media
Got ahold of you & me
It’s those animated specials
Hoggine my TV
2) Have a less confusing Christmas
Start by sorting out the crew
Old Spongebobby Squarepants
As a Christmas guy won’t do
Charles Dicken’s has the message
All of his must stay, I see
But those cartoon guys animated eyes
Won’t ROLL around anymore for me!

O come all ye fearful
Fretful about Christmas
O come ye
O come ye
To reason once again
Come and behold them
All the TV specials
That say it isn’t presents
Or everything just perfect
But who you are and what you do
That mak-kes the day
2)O Sing a little bet-ter
Christmas isn’t madness
All stressed out and chewing out
Your loved ones around
Your TV has nailed it
Calm down and embrace it
They want you sane and happy
And take a little nappy
This really is what’s wanted
On Chri-ismas day.
3) ‘My miserable Christmas’
Website tells the horrors
But all these are just about
How adults behave
Depressing reading
But they teach a lesson
We can improve so easily
Patient and kind so breezily
It’s attitude not plentitude
That makes Christmas day!
4) Whatever we’ve got then
Absolutely will content us
A messy house
Partner louse?
They’re ours and we’ll cope
We’ll look for the fun parts
Stretchify our grinch hearts
Relax don’t sweat the small stuff
What we’ve got will be en-ough
The atmosphere at ours will be
Comfy and kind!

Tune: Joy To The World
What is the source of Christmas stress?
Why must things be this way?
It’s from the media, modeling
Illusory enobling
That we must get it right
No room for Christmas blight
Till your nerves and my nerves
Are strung too tight!
V2 No more let Christmas stress abound
Nor sorrow fill the air
We do the best we can
A holiday to plan
We are not Christmas ads
Not catalogue Moms & Dads
Flawed, often foolish
We make our way
3) Then let true happiness abound
As TV specials say
If they are right that family
(Not gifts for all humanity)
Is the best gift of all
Then we can skip the mall
Comforted by peace that will
Around us fall

Tune: Jingle Bells
A fir tree’s in the house
Just ask the dog or cat
Who heartily approve the move
A tree is where it’s at
Pup raises up a leg
Cat perches very high
It’s obviously their Christmas tree
And not for you or I
CHORUS O noses tell
A holiday smell
So much stuff to sniff
goodies, guests and fur tree whiffs
These smells their Christmas gifts!

Tune: O Little Town Of Bethlehem
O little pets within our home
Why can’t we sleep in some?
Why must you think that 5AM
Means breakfast time has come?
We don’t neglect your feeding
But in this world of woe
More pillowtime at Christmastime
Is just the way to go!
v2 O pets for whom my house is run
Indeed my life is too
Our walks and talks, your ups and downs
Those little things you do
Yes, youtube videos tempt me
You in a santa hat
Especially at Christmastime
The world needs more of that!

Twelve Steps Song

(Google this tune on youtube – very singable)
Tune: Dwelling In Beulah Land (Old Gospel)

1) I admit I can’t control
The life I have been living
But a Higher Power exists
To take my life in hand.
Admitting I am helpless here,
I look for strength to go on.
As the universe unfolds,
I learn to stand.
CHORUS I’ve living every day now
As though it was my first one
I’m listening to the others
Who share this life with me
And I am making my amends now
To those I have been hurting
Finding hope, finding peace, today.
2) Day by day I walk the path
That’s given me to travel
But no longer fast asleep
My eyes are open wide
With my Higher Power’s help
And quiet meditation
Fear and worry can no longer, overcome.
CHORUS
3) All the ones who’ve walked before me,
whisper to my spirit.
Though alone, I feel them near
supporting on the way.
I have a right to be here
like the trees and stars around me
In this complicated world
I find my home.
CHORUS

Tune: I wish you a merry Christmas

I wish for a sober Christmas
God grant me a sober Christmas
And courage at Christmas
To change what I can
Serenity at Christmas
Accepting what can’t change
And wisdom for seeing
Just which one is which
V2 I’m working the program
The program is working
Today I am sober
All I have is today
v3 The past years of Christmas
Have mostly been bad ones
But that is behind me
I’m sober today
No more being lonely
There’s others who’ve been here
I’ll hear their life stories
And tell them my own!

Tune: I’ll Be Home For Christmas
I want peace for Christmas
No more wartoys sold
hungry fed
For each a bed
Homeless in from the cold
Christmas Eve I’m asking
For Peace to start with me
Let it spread throughout the world
And to eternity!

Tune: White Christmas
I’m dreaming of a just Christmas
Something I’ve never known before
Where the poor have voices
And many choices
Not homeless, cold & hungry anymore
I’m dreaming of a just Christmas
While doing all I can to help
Till a dawn breaks when our world’s come right
And Christmas for us ALL is shining bright!