[Verse 1]
          
Snowy nights a

           
nd Christmas l


ights
       
Icy windowpane


s
          
Make me wish t

           
hat we could b


e
       
Together again
           
And the windy 

        
winter avenues
         
Just don't see

      
m the same
             
And the Christ

         
mas carols sou

       
nd like blues
             
But the choir 

        
is not to blam

e

[Chorus 1]
           
But it doesn't

           
 have to be th

   
at way
           
What we had sh

            
ould never hav

  
e ended
           
I'll be droppi

      
ng by today
            
So we could ea

             
sily get it to

        
gether tonight
         
It's only righ

t

[Verse 2]
          
Crowded stores

           
, the corner S


anta Claus
       
Tinseled after


noons
          
And the sidewa

           
lk bands play 


their songs
            
Slightly out o

  
f tune
           
Down the windy

        
 winter avenue


s
         
There walks a 

      
lonely man
          
And if I told 

         
you who he is
             
Well I think y

        
ou'd understan

d

[Chorus 2]
           
But it doesn't

           
 have to be th

   
at way
           
What we had sh

            
ould never hav

  
e ended
           
I'll be droppi

      
ng by today
            
So we could ea

             
sily get it to

        
gether tonight
         
It's only righ

t

[Chorus 3]
           
No, it doesn't

           
 have to be th

   
at way
           
What we had sh

            
ould never hav

  
e ended
           
I'll be droppi

      
ng by today
            
So we could ea

             
sily get it to

        
gether tonight
         
It's only righ

t