Please Daddy (Don't Get Drunk This Christmas) - The Decemberists

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

And now I’m almost eight, as you can see

You came home at a quarter past eleven

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

Momma smiled and looked outside the window

She told me, «Son, you better go upstairs»

Then you laughed and hollered, «Merry Christmas!»

I turned around and saw my Momma’s tears

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

No, I don’t want to see my Momma cry