It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas . . .

. . . .  Ev’rywhere you go;

Take a look in the five and ten, glistening once again

With candy canes and silver lanes aglow.

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas

Toys in ev’ry store

But the prettiest sight to see is the holly that will be

On your own front door.

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas

Ev’rywhere you go;

There’s a tree in the Grand Hotel, one in the park as well,

The sturdy kind that doesn’t mind the snow.

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas;

Soon the bells will start,

And the thing that will make them ring, is the carol that you sing

Right within your heart.

            --Lyrics by Meredith Willson

Photo of woman on sidewalk during Black Friday’s holiday shopping extravaganza by Michael Nagle/Getty Images.  (h/t Matt Yglesias)