Christmas Rappin'-Kurtis Blow

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[00:00.00]Christmas Rappin' - Kurtis Blow
[00:00.86]Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house
[00:03.82]Hold it now Wait hold it That's played out Hit it
[00:11.98]Don't you give me all that jive about things you wrote before I's alive
[00:16.02]Cause this ain't 1823 -- ain't even 1970
[00:20.32]Now I'm the guy named Kurtis Blow and Christmas is one thing I know
[00:24.75]So every year just about this time I celebrate it with a rhyme
[00:33.58]Gonna shake it gonna bake it gonna make it good
[00:35.97]Gonna rock shock clock it through your neighbourhood
[00:37.56]Gonna read gonna sing it till it's understood
[00:39.68]My rappin' bout to happen like a knee you've been slapping
[00:41.82]Or a toe you've been tapping on a hunk of wood
[00:46.33]Bout a red-suited dude with a friendly attitude
[00:47.83]And a sleigh full of goodies for for the people on the block
[00:50.48]Got a long white beard maybe looks kind a weird
[00:52.68]And if you ever see him he could give you quite a shock
[00:59.44]Now people let me tell ya bout last year
[01:01.19]When the dude came flying over here
[01:02.89]Well the hog was out snow's on the ground
[01:05.15]Folks stayed in to party down
[01:07.67]The beat was thumping on the box and I was dancing in my socks
[01:11.86]And the drummer played at a solid pace
[01:16.27]And a taste of the bass was in my face
[01:22.98]And the guitar player layed down a heavy layer
[01:24.82]Of the funky junky rhythm of the disco beat
[01:31.55]And the guy with the 88's started to participate
[01:33.49]And I could sure appreciate a sound so sweat
[01:40.27]We were all in the mood so we had a little food
[01:42.27]And a joke and a smoke and a little bit of wine
[01:44.33]When I thought I heard a hoof on the top of the roof
[01:46.64]Could it be or was it me I was feeling super fine
[01:48.52]So I went to your attic where I thought heard the static
[01:50.58]On the chance that the prance was somebody breaking in
[01:52.72]But the noise on the top was a reindeer clop
[01:54.88]Just a trick St Nick and I let the sucker in
[02:06.27]He was roly he was poly and I said"Holy moly
[02:08.26]You got a lot of whiskers on your chinny chin chin"
[02:10.17]He allowed he was proud of the hairy little crowd
[02:12.00]On the point of his jaw where the skin should've been
[02:14.15]Gets cool for a fool going out every Yule
[02:16.52]For a day on a sleigh when the cold went low
[02:18.71]So the beard may be weird but I'll never have it sheared
[02:20.95]Cause it's warm in the storm when it's ten below
[02:27.40]I said"You're right it's cold tonight
[02:29.40]But can you stop for a drop before you go"
[02:31.59]He said"Why not if the music's hot
[02:33.61]And I'll chance a dance beneath the mistletoe"
[02:35.87]So he went downstairs and forgot his guests
[02:37.86]And he rocked the spot and danced like a pro
[02:40.25]And every young girl tried to rock his world
[02:42.19]But he boogie oogie oogied til he had to go
[02:48.90]And before he went this fine old gent
[02:50.74]Brought a gift with a sift through his big red bags
[02:52.98]In the top or the bottom he reached in and got 'em
[02:55.35]Toys for the boys for the girls glad rags
[03:01.75]And the grownups got some presents too
[03:03.63]A new TV and a stereo
[03:05.81]A new Seville bout as blue as the sky
[03:07.94]The best that money couldn't buy
[03:10.07]Cause money could never ever buy the feeling
[03:12.19]The one that comes from not concealing
[03:14.41]The way you you feel about your friends
[03:16.55]And this is how the story ends
[03:23.37]The dude in red's back at the Pole
[03:25.19]Up north where everything is cold
[03:27.62]But if he were right here tonight
[03:29.37]He'd say Merry Christmas and to all a good night