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In an	old city b	ar

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That's n	ever too f	ar

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From the p	laces that gath	er

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From the dreams that have been

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In the s	afety of ni	ght

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By an	old neon l	ight

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It b	eckons to strang	ers

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And they always come in

And the snow it was falling

The neon was calling

The music was low

And the night, Christmas Eve

And here was the danger

Even with strangers

Inside of this night

It's easier to believe

Then the door opened wide

And a child came inside

That no one in the bar

Had seen there before

And he asked did we know

That outside in the snow

That someone was lost

Standing outside our door

And the bartender gazed

Through the smoke and the haze

Through the window and ice

To that corner streetlight

Where standing alone

By a broken pay phone

Was a girl the child said

Could no longer get home

And the snow it was falling

The neon was calling

The bartender turned and said,

"Not that I care.

But how would you know this?"

The child said, "I've noticed,

If one could be home,

They'd be already there."

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Then the ba	rtender came o	ut

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From be	hind the b	ar

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In	all of his l	ife

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He was n	ever that f	ar

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And he	did something	else

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That he th	ought no one s	aw

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And he t	ook all the c	ash

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From the reg	ister dra	wer

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Then he followed the child

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To the g	irl across the st	reet

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And we watched from the bar

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As they st	arted to sp	eak

	F	C
Then he ca	lled for a c	ab

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And he said, "J.F.K."

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Put the g	irl in the c	ab

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Then the cab drove away

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And we	saw in his h	ands

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That the cash was all gone

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From the light that she had wished upon

If you want to arrange it

This world you can change it

If we could somehow make this

Christmas thing last

By helping a neighbor

Or even a stranger

And to know who needs help

You need only just ask

Then he looked for the child

The child wasn't there

Just the wind and the snow

Waltzing dreams through the air

And he walked back inside

Somehow different I think

For the rest of the night

No one paid for a drink

And the cynics will say

That some neighborhood kid

Wondered in on some bums

In the world where they hid

But they werent there

So they couldnt see

By an old neon star

On that night Christmas Eve

When the snow it was falling

The neon was calling

In case you should wonder

In case you should care

Why we on our own

Never went home

On that night of all nights

We were already there