I Know What Santa's Getting For Christmas Song Lyrics and Chords
I Know What Santa's Getting For Christmas Song Lyrics and Chords by Burl Ives
I Know What Santa's Getting For Christmas
Recorded by Joey and Rory
Written by Garth Brooks and Kent Blazy
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I know what
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Santa's gettin' for
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Christmas
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waitin' underneath the mistle
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toe
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Santa's gettin' for
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Christmas
It's gonna come
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wrapped in a big red
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He's been very
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good this year
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I've read his list I've checked it
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twice
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think it's time to spread the
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cheer
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He's been naughty but
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nice
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I know what
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Santa's gettin' for
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Christmas
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waitin' underneath the mistle
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toe-ho-ho
I know what
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Santa's gettin' for
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Christmas
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wrapped in a big red
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Ain't no red nosed reindeer or no
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magic
sleigh
They talked about in Christmas
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past
It's the present that he gets to open
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Christmas
day
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gets him round the world so
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fast
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By the
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time he hits my stockings
He'll be
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milk and cookied out
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still got somethin' up my
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sleeve
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special little gift he doesn't
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know
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bout
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last him up until next Christmas
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come wrapped in a big red
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FAQ
Who sang the the song I Know What Santa's Getting For Christmas?
- The song I Know What Santa's Getting For Christmas was sang by Burl Ives.
Who is Burl Ives?
- Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives (June 14, 1909 - April 14, 1995) was an American singer, musician, actor, and author.
Ives began his career as an itinerant singer and guitarist, eventually launching his own radio show, The Wayfaring Stranger, which popularized traditional folk songs. In 1942, he appeared in Irving Berlin's This Is the Army and became a major star of CBS Radio. In the 1960s, he successfully crossed over into country music, recording hits such as "A Little Bitty Tear" and "Funny Way of Laughin'". Ives was also a popular film actor through the late 1940s and '50s. His film roles included parts in So Dear to My Heart (1948) and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), as well as the role of Rufus Hannassey in The Big Country (1958), for which he won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Ives is often associated with the Christmas season. He did voice-over work as Sam the Snowman, narrator of the classic 1964 Christmas television special Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. Ives also worked on the special's soundtrack, including the songs "A Holly Jolly Christmas" and "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer", both of which continue to chart annually on the Billboard holiday charts into the 2020s.
