Snoopy's Christmas (Snoopy vs. The Red Baron)
Performed by: The Royal Guardsmen (1967)

Lead in: 
O Tannenbaum, O Tannenbaum, [Oh Christmas tree, Oh Christmas tree]
du kannst mir sehr gefallen! [Of all the trees most lovely]

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|    The | news'd come out |    in the | First World War. |   The |
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| bloody Red Baron |     was | flying once more. |    The | Allied command |
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| ignored | all of its men, |   and | called on Snoopy |     to | do it again. |

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|   Twas the | night before Christmas, |     | forty below, |    when |
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| Snoopy went up |    in | search of his foe. |    He | spied the Red Baron, |
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| and | fiercely they fought. |    With | ice on his wings | Snoopy |
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| knew he was caught. |        |

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| Christmas | bells those | Christmas | bells. | Ring out | from the | land. |    |
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| Asking | peace of | all th he | world | and good | will to | man. |     |

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|   The | Baron had Snoopy |     | dead in his sights. |    He | reached for the trigger |
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|    to | pull it up tight. |    Why | he didn't shoot, | well, | we'll never know... |
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|    Or | was it the bells | from the | village below? |     |      |       |      |
 
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| Christmas | bells those | Christmas | bells. | Ring out | from the | land. |    |
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| Bringing | peace of | all th he | world | and good | will to | man. |      |

Change to "E" harp...

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|    The | Baron made Snoo | py | fly to the Rhine - |   and | forced him to land |
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|  behind the | ene my lines. |     | Snoopy was certain | that | this was the end - |
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| when the | Baron cried out, |     |      | "Merry | Christma | as, my | friend" |     |

Change to "F harp...

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|   The | Baron then of | fered a | holiday toast |   and | Snoopy, our hero, |
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|    sal | uted his host. |   And | then with a roar | they were | both on their way - |
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|   each | knowing that they'd |   meet | some other day. |     |     |      |
 

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| Christmas | bells those | Christmas | bells. | Ring out | from the | land. |    |
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| Asking | peace of | all th he | world | and good | will to | man. |     |

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| Christmas | bells those | Christmas | bells. | Ring out | from the | land. |    |
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| Asking | peace of | all th he | world | and good | will to | man. |     |
 

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