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It's Just a Thing My Father Did at Christmas

from Let's Take Offence! by Andrew London Trio

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I Mowed The Lawn on Christmas Eve, though it really didn’t need it
it’s just a thing my father did at Christmas
and no-one ever saw it, cos we always went to Grandma’s
it's just he liked to get it done for Christmas

We’d have tea and toast around the tree
and wait for Mum to finally come
while you & I would argue bout
whose turn it was to hand out presents

and the smell of artificial snow can take me back
to 10 years old, when we were all together at Christmas

I Mowed The Lawn on Christmas Eve, though it really didn’t need it
it’s just a thing my father did at Christmas
and that year I did it for him, cos he’d been a little out of breath
and Mum had told me that he shouldn’t overdo it

and my head was thumping from the wine
I’d drunk the night before, my band had
played a blinder guess it must have
been the year before I married
and the smell of freshly-mown grass reminds me that was p’raps the last
time we were all together ...at Christmas

I Mowed The Lawn on Christmas Eve, though it really didn’t need it
it’s just a thing my father did at Christmas
Our daughter’s in Australia, and our son is with his inlaws
we seldom see them now, at Christmas

but we bought a tree and put it up
in a bucket wrapped in Christmas paper
hung some lights and coloured balls
and sprayed it all with snow

and we sat outside & drank champagne
though we really didn’t need it,
it’s just a thing my father did at Christmas

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from Let's Take Offence!, track released October 1, 2017
words and music by Andrew London

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Andrew London New Zealand

New Zealand singer/songwriter of mainly (but not exclusively) satirical original songs in a mainly (but not exclusively) 1940s swing genre.

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