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It’s Just Not Christmas Without You
Years almost over Christmas song...’It’s just not christmas
Sure looks like December without you’...West berlin...Christmas 1985...
The snow and ice on the ground Sitting in my plane waiting to deplane...
I hadn’t sent a single Christmas card Friends waiting to greet my visit from
The 31st is coming around
california...Looking forward to seeing my
It makes me remember our last December ex-wife here for christmas...I thought i heard
How the city looks so beautiful in white horses and bells in my head to go with the
As we walked the street that day you kept me warm latest snow flurries...Looking forward to
We couldn’t wait to get inside meeting friends in a local bar called the
Now its Christmas and you’re so far away “flying dutchman”. We are mostly american
songwriters living off the rich German
On this Christmas I just wish you had stayed economy. Folks ask why we’re here. We told
And I wonder if you’re thinking of me today them “blondes”. The stewardess woke me
I don’t know what I’ll do
its not Christmas without you from my christmas reverie. Took a taxi to go
uptown and see my -ex. Berlin is a
I hear carols in the distance wonderland all covered in snow. Women in
Don’t want to listen because every sound their furs stepping out of their mercedes.
says your not here
Just in case you change your mind I took a nice cozy mercedes taxi to the
I’ll leave a light over the door “hardke” resteraunt off kudamm. We all
And hope you suddenly appear
planned a great sit down dinner including
my ex, doris. I wrote the lyrics in my head
‘Cause its Christmas and you’re so far away
On this Christmas I just wish you had stayed spurred on by my love for her, especially at
And I wonder if you’re thinking of me today christmas. Everyone was there to greet me
I don’t know what I’ll do after my flight from california. Berlin was
its not Christmas without you always our secret paradise, the only city in
the world where one could write music all
I’m too old too old to believe in Santa Claus day and play for rent money at night. It was a
What are these gifts under the tree privilege to be among this talented group of
But I did this once
Or many it’s a dream, musicians.
has he really brought you back to me
The Jimmy Travis Band Website Bio
its Christmas all I wanted is here
On this Christmas was for you to be near We began as a group of American expatriates
And I wonder if you’re thinking living in Berlin, due to the fact that we
of me ‘cause you’re here discovered that there you can live from music
My one wish has come true, alone. Of Music. I, Jimmy, began my public
it’s not Christmas without you musical career in the group “Eastfield
Meadows” in Hollywood. I moved to
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London to work on an album for Warner
Brothers. John Vaughan was a U.S. Army brat
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