Shouldn’t Have Given Him A Gun For Christmas

There's been snow-covered Christmases and ones just of rain
Of [?] and warm bread and shiny toy trains
And though they've always been different
They've always been the best
Yet there's one I remember more tenderly than all the rest

It all began with Uncle Jack
He made a crack and wouldn't take it back
Dad was drinkin' and he got sore
There was a flash on the crash
Onto the manger on the floor

I shouldn't have given him a gun for Christmas
Shouldn't have given him a gun, gun, gun
Shouldn't have given him a gun for Christmas
Look what Daddy has done, done, done

He put three slugs into the neighbor's dog
And kicked him by the manger scene
The plastic baby Jesus he blew to smithereens
I can't think about the nine-year-olds who won't be seeing ten
How he went a-caroling to the doors of now-dead men

I shouldn't have given him a gun for Christmas
Shouldn't have given him a gun, gun, gun
Shouldn't have given him a gun for Christmas
Look what Daddy has done, done, done
Shouldn't have given him a gun for Christmas
Shouldn't have given him a gun, gun, gun
Shouldn't have given him a gun for Christmas
Look what Daddy has done, done, done

O Tannenbaum, O Tannenbaum
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Nein auch im Winter Wenn es schneit
O Tannenbaum, O Tannenbaum
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Of course, I can repeat those I [?]...

Ahhh, yeah!

Shouldn't have given him a gun for Christmas
Shouldn't have given him a gun, gun, gun
Shouldn't have given him a gun for Christmas
Look what Daddy has done, done, done
Shouldn't have given him a gun for Christmas
Shouldn't have given him a gun, gun, gun
Shouldn't have given him a gun for Christmas
Look what Daddy has done, done, done
Shouldn't have given him a gun for Christmas
Shouldn't have given him a gun, gun, gun
Shouldn't have given him a gun for Christmas
Look what Daddy has done, done, done
Shouldn't have given him a gun for Christmas

Look what Daddy has done, done, done
Shouldn't have given him a gun for Christmas
Shouldn't have given him a gun, gun, gun
Shouldn't have given him a gun for Christmas
Look what Daddy has done, done, done
Shouldn't have given him a gun for Christmas

Look what Daddy has done, done, done