Getting Ready For Christmas Day

Album: So Beautiful Or So What (2010)
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  • From early in November to the last week of December
    I got money matters weighing me down
    Oh, the music may be merry, but it's only temporary
    I know Santa Claus is comin' to town
    In the days I work my day job, in the nights I work my night
    But it all comes down to workin' man's pay
    Gettin' ready, I'm gettin' ready
    Ready for Christmas Day

    (Gettin' ready for Christmas Day)
    (And let me tell you, namely, the undertaker)
    (He's getting ready for your body)
    (Not only that, the jailer, he's getting ready for you)
    (Christmas Day, hmm?)
    (And not only the jailer, but the lawyer, the police force)
    (Now getting ready for Christmas Day
    (And I want you to bear it in mind)

    I got a nephew in Iraq, it's his third time back
    But it's endin' up the way it began
    With the luck of a beginner, he'll be eatin' turkey dinner
    On some mountain top in Pakistan
    Gettin' ready
    Oh we're gettin' ready
    For the power and the glory
    And the story of the Christmas Day

    (Getting ready, for Christmas)
    (Done made it up in your mind that I'm going, New York, Philadelphia, Chicago)
    (I'm going, on a trip, getting ready, for Christmas Day)
    (But when Christmas come, nobody knows where you'll be)
    (You might ask me, I may be layin' in some lonesome grave)
    (Getting ready, for Christmas Day)

    Getting ready
    Oh we're getting ready
    For the power and the glory
    And the story of the Christmas Day
    Yes, we're getting ready

    (Getting ready, ready for your prayers)
    (I'm going and see my relatives in a distant land)
    (Getting ready, getting ready for Christmas Day)

    If I could tell my Mom and Dad that the things we never had
    Never mattered, we were always okay
    Getting ready, oh ready
    Ready for Christmas Day
    Ready, getting ready
    For the power and the glory
    And the story of the Christmas Day Writer/s: Paul Simon
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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  • Pammie from Rockaway Njwho is the lead guitarist on this song please?
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