It's the news that no one hopes for
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Every parent's greatest fear
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Finding out the child you love so much
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Might not make it through the year
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Now the thought of spending Christmas
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Without him just feels wrong
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They've been praying for a miracle
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Now they're praying he can just hold on
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For one last Christmas, one last time
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One last season when all the world is right
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One more telling of the story
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One more verse of silent night
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They'd give anything so he could have
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One last Christmas
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Middle of September
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Still seventy degrees
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Daddy climbs up in the attic
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Brings down candles
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Hangs the lights on all the trees
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Then the neighbors started asking
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And pretty soon word got around
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First it was the neighborhood
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Before too long they lit up that whole town
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For one last Christmas, one last time
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One last season when all the world is right
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One more telling of the story
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One more verse of silent night
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They'd give anything so he could have
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One last Christmas
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Twenty-seventh of October
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His time was wearing thin
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Friends and family, even strangers
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That they didn't even know
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Brought presents in
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He was weak but he was smiling
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Like there was nothing even wrong
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They said he wouldn't make it
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Looks like he got to see it after all
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One last Christmas, one last time
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One last season when all the world is right
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One more telling of the story
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One more verse of silent night
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They gave everything so he could have
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One last Christmas
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One last Christmas
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One Last Christmas
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Matthew West |