Christmas is Coming

Christmas is Coming is a nursery rhyme with lyrics as follows:

Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat

Please put a penny in the old man's hat

If you haven't got a penny, a ha'penny will do

If you haven't got a ha'penny,a farthing will do

If you haven't got a farthing then God bless you!

This became the basis for Bing Crosby's Christmas song, God Bless You Gentlemen, which contains these lyrics as follows:

When I'm feeling blue, when I'm feeling low,

I start to think about the happiest man I know.

Now he doesn't mind the snow, he doesn't mind the rain,

But all December you will hear him at your window pane,

Singing again and again and again and again and again:

Christmas is a coming and the bells begin to ring,

The holly's in the window and the birds begin to sing.

I don't need to worry, and I don't need to fret,

And the more you give at Christmastime the more you get.

God bless you, gentlemen, God bless you!

The more you give at Christmastime the more you get.

Christmas is a coming, the egg's in the nog.

Please give a friendly man a friendly little dog.

If you haven't got a friendly dog, a friendly cat will do,

If you haven't got a friendly cat may God bless you!

God bless you, gentlemen, God bless you!

If you haven't got a friendly cat may God bless you!

Christmas is a coming, the lights are on the tree.

How about a turkey leg for dear old me?

If you haven't got a turkey leg, a turkey wing will do.

If you haven't got a turkey wing may God bless you!

God bless you, gentlemen, God bless you!

If you haven't got a turkey wing may God bless you!

Christmas is a coming, the cider's in the keg.

If I had a mug of cider I wouldn't have to beg.

If you haven't got a mug of cider, half a mug will do.

If you haven't got half a mug, may God bless you!

God bless you, gentlemen God bless you!

If you haven't got half a mug, may God bless you!

If you haven't got a thing for me, may God bless you!