Christmas Carol - The Oak Ridge Boys

Like a fixture down on Main Street

She stood there all year long

With a tin cup and a tamborine

Singing Christmas songs

Folks thought she was crazy

But they loved to hear her sing

They’d drop some money in her can

She’d shake that tamborine

And they called her Christmas Carol

There’s not a Christmas song she couldn’t sing

I remember Christmas Carol

With her snow white hair and her beat up tamborine

She wore that same old ragged coat all the year around

Lived all alone in a little shack just outside of town

She’d stand there singing «Jingle Bells» in the heat of the summer time

Yes, every day was Christmas in Carol Johnson’s mind

And they called her Christmas Carol

There’s not a Christmas song she couldn’t sing

I remember Christmas Carol

With her snow white hair and her beat up tamborine

But I can still remember that twinkle in her eye

'Cause Carol kept a secret from the people passing by

That secret was a mystery they talked about so long

How each Christmas eve those gifts showed up outside the children’s home

That was forty years ago, or fifty I believe

But still the toys keep showing up each year on Christmas eve

I wonder if we’ll ever know just who took up the cause

Is it still Christmas Carol

Or is it Santa Claus?

And they called her Christmas Carol

There’s not a Christmas song she couldn’t sing

I remember Christmas Carol

With her snow white hair and her beat up tamborine

(Repeat chorus)