Every year at Christmas

All I can see

Are pictures of the things I want

Around the tree

But this year's a little different

I'm not thinking of myself

So my prayer for this Christmas 

Is for somebody else



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So I pray...

Joy To the World

Peace for every boy and girl

Hope when life is hard

Light when everything seems dark



God I know you're listening

And you can hear

The need of every broken heart

And all their tears

I don't have a lot to offer

Just this one simple prayer

That this Christmas everyone would know 

Somebody cares...



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So I pray...

Joy To the World

Peace for every boy and girl

Hope when life is hard

Light when everything seems dark



I pray that every hungry soul 

Will be filled and will be warm

That not a single, solitary child 

Would suffer harm



And Lord we find their ending

As we take another view

My hope is that this Christmas prayer

Would somehow come true



I pray...

Humanity would rise

And join with me

And together we'll sing



Joy To the World (To all the world)

Peace (Peace) for every boy and girl (for every boy and girl)

(Talking bout hope) Hope when life is hard (when life is hard)

Light when everything seems dark



I pray that (I pray) every hungry soul 

Will be filled and will be warm

(Not a single child) That not a single, solitary child 

Would suffer harm



And Lord we find their ending

As we take another view

My hope is that this Christmas prayer

Would somehow come true...



Joy To the World

Peace for every boy and girl