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Merry Xmas Everybody Lyrics

Are you hanging up your stocking on your wall
It's the time when every Santa has a ball
Does he ride a red nosed reindeer
Does a ton upon his sleigh
Do the fairies keep him sober for a day

So here it is, Merry Xmas
Everybody's having fun
Look to the future now
It's only just begun

Are you waiting for the family to arrive
Are you sure you got the room to spare inside
Does your grannie always tell ya
That the old songs are the best
Then she's up and rock 'n' rolling with the rest

So here it is, Merry Xmas
Everybody's having fun
Look to the future now
It's only just begun

What will your daddy do when he sees your mama kissing Santa Claus A-ha

Are you hanging up your stocking on your wall
Are you hoping that the snow will start to fall
Do you ride on down the hillside
In a buggy you have made
When you land upon your head
Then you bin slayed

So here it is, Merry Xmas
Everybody's having fun
Look to the future now
It's only just begun

So here it is, Merry Xmas
Everybody's having fun
Look to the future now
It's only just begun

So here it is, Merry Xmas
Everybody's having fun (It's Christmas)
Look to the future now
It's only just begun
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Cover art for Merry Xmas Everybody lyrics by Slade

'Sleighed'

Cover art for Merry Xmas Everybody lyrics by Slade

In my opinion, the best Xmas song ever. Fairytale of New York is also brilliant, but this just has the edge. I think this is mainly because it gives me so many happy memories of my youth, and of singing and dancing to it with friends at my school's Christmas disco's. Wonderful, innocent times.

Cover art for Merry Xmas Everybody lyrics by Slade

I want to add that my personal thought on the last line before the final chorus is a pun/play on words possibly a triple-play.

My first assumption is that the word should be "sleighed" rather than "slayed", and coincidentally a third meaning being "Slade" since that's the name of the band that originated the song. In the end though all three meanings can apply but the main meaning being "sleighed" since it's a Christmas song and those often incorporate sleigh into the theming, and if you fill on your head then you would coincidentally be slayed by a sleigh.

Cover art for Merry Xmas Everybody lyrics by Slade

Just came here to comment sleighed, slayed, Slade lol - all of the meanings work