Lyrics by: Willie Nelson
Music by: Willie Nelson

Pretty paper
Pretty ribbons of blue
Wrap your presents to your darling from you
Pretty pencils to write “I love you”
Pretty paper
Pretty ribbons of blue

Crowded streets
Busy feet hustle by him
Downtown shoppers
Christmas is nigh
There he sits all alone on the sidewalk
Hoping that you won’t pass him by

Should you stop?
Better not, much too busy
You'd better hurry
My how time does fly
And in the distance the ringing of laughter
And in the midst of the laughter he cries

Pretty paper
Pretty ribbons of blue
Wrap your presents to your darling from you
Pretty pencils to write “I love you”
Pretty paper
Pretty ribbons of blue

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