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Please Daddy (Don't Get Drunk This Christmas) (John Denver cover)

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Please Daddy, don't get drunk this Christmas
I don't want to see my Momma cry
Please Daddy, don't get drunk this Christmas
I don't want to see my Momma cry

Just last year when I was only seven
And now I'm almost eight, as you can see
You came home at a quarter past eleven
Fell down underneath our Christmas tree

Please Daddy, don't get drunk this Christmas
I don't want to see my Momma cry
Please Daddy, don't get drunk this Christmas
I don't want to see my Momma cry

Momma smiled and looked outside the window
She told me, "Son, you better go upstairs"
Then you laughed and hollered, "Merry Christmas!"
I turned around and saw my Momma's tears

Please Daddy, don't get drunk this Christmas
I don't want to see my Momma cry
Please Daddy, don't get drunk this Christmas
I don't want to see my Momma cry
No, I don't want to see my Momma cry

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mellow_harsher On May 02, 2007

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by Mellow_Harsher MOD

19y ago

As faux-tragic as the story is, it's hilarious the way Colin sings the "Please Daddy" part of the song.

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by WriterOfFictions

19y ago

WHERE DID YOU FIND THIS?!

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by Mellow_Harsher MOD

19y ago

It's on the Connect Sets EP, released exclusively online through Sony Connect.

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