please, daddy (don't get drunk this christmas)

please daddy don't get drunk this christmas

i don't want to see my momma cry

please daddy don't get drunk this christmas

i don't want to see my momma cry

just last year when i was only seven

now i'm almost eight

as you can see

you came home a quarter past eleven

and fell down underneath our christmas tree

please daddy don't get drunk this christmas

i don't want to see my momma cry

please daddy don't get drunk this christmas

i don't want to see my momma cry

mama smiled and looked outside the window

she told me son you better go upstairs

then you laughed and hollared

merry christmas"