Perry Como - 'Twas The Night Before Christmas Lyrics






'Twas the night before Christmas,
when all through the house,
not a creature was stirring,
not even a mouse!

The stockings all hung
by the chimney with care,
in hopes that St. Nicholas
soon would be there!

The children were nestled
all safe in their beds,
while visions of sugarplums
danced in their heads!

And Mom in her kerchief
and I in my cap,
had just settled down
for a long winter's nap!

When out on the lawn
there arose such a clatter,
I sprang from my bed
to see what was the matter!

Away to the window
I flew like a flash,
tore open the shutters
and threw up the sash!

The moon on the breast
of the new fallen snow,
gave the lustre of midday
to object below!

When what to my wandering eyes
should appear,
but a miniature sleigh
and eight tiny reindeer!

With a little ol' driver
so lively and quick,
I knew in a moment
it must be St. Nick!

More rapid than eagles
his courses they came,
as he whistled and shouted
and called them by name:

"Now Dasher,
now Dancer,
now Prancer,
now Vixen,
on Comet,
on Cupid,
on Doner
an' Blitzen!"

To the top of the porch,
to the top of the wall,
now dash-away, dash-away,
dash-away all!

As dry leaves
before the wild hurricane fly,
when they meet with an obstacle
mount to the sky.

So, up to the housetop
the courses they flew,
with a sleigh full of toys
and St. Nicholas too!

And then in a twinkling
I heard on the roof,
the prancing and pawing
of each little hoof!

As I drew in my head
and was turning around,
down the chimney St. Nicholas
came with a bound!

He was dressed all in fur
from his head to his foot,
and his clothes were all tarnished
with ashes and soot!

A bundle of toys
he had flung on his back,
and he looked like a peddler
just opening his pack!

His eyes how they twinkled,
his dimples how merry,
his cheeks were like roses,
his nose like a cherry!

His drawl little mouth
was drawn up like a bow,
and the beard of his chin
was a white as the snow!

The stump of his pipe
he held tight in his teeth,
and the smoke it encircled his head
like a wreath!

He had a broad face
and a round little belly,
that shook when he laughed
like a bowl full of jelly!

He was chubby and plump,
a right jolly old elf,
I laughed when I saw him
in spite of myself!

A wink of his eye
and a twist of his head,
soon gave me to know
I had nothing to dread!

He spoke not a word
but went straight to his work,
and filled all the stockings,
then turned with a jerk!

An' laying a finger
along side his nose,
an' giving a nod,
up the chimney he rose!

He sprang to his sleigh,
to his team gave a whistle,
an' away they all flew
like the down of a thistle.

But I heard him exclaim
as he drove out of sight,
"Happy Christmas to All,
and to All a Goodnight!"





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  1. M.... 3....

    My aunt made twas the night before cristmas

  2. c.... c....

    Omg the picture book pics are from a book I had as a child!!!

  3. P.... C....

    Charles Dickens wrote this didn't he? Or am I confused with christmas Carol?

  4. I.... H....

    I wish Santa was actually real

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    👍👍

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    Merry Christmas 2019!!!!!!

  7. M.... J....

    Who’s listening 2019 Christmas Eve because nobody else is willing to read it to you and you don’t have the book and you’re in bed exited for Christmas morning......

    M.... J....

    Deprived Fool me

  8. S.... i....

    Christmas 2k19?

  9. 2.... ....

    The 14 yr old an i are listening she is still a kid at heart. . . . Merry Christmas everyone

  10. c.... ....

    Merry Christmas from Arizona, everyone. ✌️

  11. D.... S....

    Onetime I was asleep then I woke up to someone farting by the Christmas tree:-{

  12. C.... B....

    I'm 14 and watching my little sisters on Christmas eve while my parents are away we just watched this video now there going to bed and I'm wrapping presents

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    Chris Brown hugs. May the LORD bless you and your family this Christmas. You’re a wonderful elder brother.

  13. a.... e....

    This is not Perry Como's voice...& I'm 68yrs old & know what his voice sounds like

  14. C.... F....

    Merry Christmas everyone i hope you have a wonderful one and get to spend time with family 🎅🤶🎄🎄

  15. K.... P....

    Anyone felt like 2019 ended so fast

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    Kiesha Miguel yes so much!! I don’t know where the year went

  16. C.... P....

    Who's listening to this on Christmas Eve?

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    Charlotte Peacock MEEE

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    I am! ^_^

    C.... P....

    Charlotte Peacock I am! This is my last Christmas Eve that I’ll ever have as a child. For a little over seventeen years, I have never listened to the entire story, so I thought, “hey, why not listen to it for the first time tonight?” Merry Christmas, everyone!

    C.... P....

    Just you

  17. R.... S....

    I spent 20 years in the Army and missed quite a few Christmas Eve's. With the exception of being in a few places where I had no phone capability, I always called and read this to my daughters on Christmas Eve. I still do.

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    Roger S. Thank you for your service roger 🇺🇸🇺🇸

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    Thank you for your service and sacrifice! Nobody understands the amounts of gratitude people such as you are owed.

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    Roger S. That’s cool man

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    Thats really cool to hear my great aunt wrote twas the night before cristmas

  18. S.... Q....

    Merry Christmas all in 2019

  19. R.... h....

    Happy Christmas eve I am going to sleep now and I just listened this , there will be nothing more perfect than this ❤️

  20. R.... R....

    Christmas 2019 🙂❤🌲⚘

  21. D.... Y....

    Im gonna say this before we open presents on christmas

  22. A.... S....

    Exactly 11 years ago, this song was posted.

  23. W.... G....

    Didn't Perry Como "sing" this is well? If not Perry, then who?

  24. j.... h....

    My son loved this story

  25. P.... B....

    i cant really understand the part with the moon what does it say?

    P.... B....

    " The moon on the Brest of the new-fallen snow gave the luster of Miday to the objects below" means the moon was shining so bright it was almost as bright as day time.

  26. k.... ....

    My poem

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    kalaikunohona marry Christmas🎄🎅🔔❄🎄🎅🔔❄ 2020

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    nice i would like to see how it went

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    kalaikunohona send me your WhatsApp

  27. J.... ....

    Awesome song

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    SMILING......WARMTH BUBBLES UP . its crazy that just a story/poem can take you back to being a Happy child at Christmas!:)

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    Turboo do you love Christmas🎄🎅🔔❄🎄🎅🔔❄🎅🎁🎄

  29. R.... N....

    On my brothers channel outside of it is his homework to underline all the rhyming words... he is in 7th grade and I’m in 1rst

    R.... N....

    Red Ninja marry Christmas🎄🎅🔔❄

  30. S.... A....

    I so remember this. I am seventy one years old. It is like I am a child once again.

  31. J.... V....

    I know this by memory

  32. J.... B....

    Clarke Clement Moore and his classic.

  33. 1.... ....

    So wonderful. So beautiful. Even as an adult I try to maintain that Christmas magic to the younger family members in my life. Having said that I’m entranced by this just as I was as a young boy.

    Youtube and the internet can be a rude place, but for now, Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all reading this.

  34. A.... D....

    I have to memorize this poem for school

    A.... D....

    Allisson De Leon gl!

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    Hope it went well!!

  35. O.... M....

    Iam a 2009 baby this is in 2008 I wasn’t even born btw iam ten 10 this year in grade 5 and in a mount year 6

  36. N.... B....

    Does anyone know this it goes like oo what's there in the snow something horrible because I'm doing the night before Christmas play

  37. F.... B....

    Ho ho ho

    F.... B....

    hohohohohohohohohhohohoohoohohohhoohohohohohhoohohohohohohoho santas fatty

  38. F.... B....

    Santa's got rhymes

  39. I.... K....

    I’m ready for Christmas!! November 2019

    I.... K....

    Same mate

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    Ian Kirkland sameeeee

    I.... K....

    Its tomorrow now eeeek

  40. S.... C....

    I once was a love Christmas bit until I found out the whole truth about it I don't think u will too.
    YaHuWaH showed me the truth first of all YaHawasHi came in my Father's name YaHuWaH not Jesus Christ because j was not a letter in the alphabet until the 1500's.
    Then the cannites that remain in Yisrael convinced some of them to worship their god saturn to get whatever they wanted right through the year but the poor's could not pay up the sacrifice their babies and this being looked like who u would know as father time which u may have notice he would carry the weapon that the grim reaper would have in Jeremiah 10:1-10 talks don't pluck out a tree and hammer it down and decorating a tree with purple (the red blood and blue like veins and silver ( the intestines)
    Then the next truth th a t they hidden from us is that there is a evil being that put coal in the bad children stocking that their parents would put out to dry by the fire place this evil being had 12 grupmus and the child that got this coal while the truth is it scary.

    S.... C....

    Shelly Chaitram marry Christmas

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    @Salim Hamlat in times like this we love but YaHuWaH says knowledge of the truth is much more love that we should give

    S.... C....

    Im Santa if you want Christmas gifts I will send you I love Christmas🎄🎅🔔❄🎄🎅🔔❄🎅🎁🎄

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    @Salim Hamlat I can tell u then I am sorry for your soul

    S.... C....

    Shelly Chaitram wow you are so nice where are you from

  41. F.... F....

    I ❤️ his Christmas 🎄 music!

  42. L.... K....

    I have to do this as a poem at school

  43. T.... ....

    I have to memorize this song for my school poem ._.

    T.... ....

    same i had to memorize it and i love the happy gentle poem with the deep gentle voice ahhh i love

  44. X.... V....

    That little hum at the end ❤️

  45. I.... ....

    It’s November 2, 2019

  46. M.... M....

    Christmas 2019

  47. S.... K....

    This proves that The Mandela Effect is real! If you look up any copy of this poem, it now says "settled our brains for a long winter's nap"! He clearly says what we all remember "settled down for a long winter's nap"!

  48. C.... ....

    Yay I'm doing this for my poem :D

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    Chinelo gl!

  49. K.... Q....

    Sound a little bit like bob hope.

  50. S.... G....

    I'm watch this and it's not even Christmas 😋, I guess I just love Christmas

  51. C.... M....

    I’m so ready for Christmas 2019 not financially but mentally

    C.... M....

    Mentally is the important thing.

    C.... M....

    i hope you're still ready because it's almost here

  52. M.... C....

    My favorite

  53. D.... Z....

    Why am I watching this in February

  54. n.... t....

    enft cest de la merde la musique ntm

  55. J.... T....

    I'm nearly as old as Santa and I still love this and Perry Como's voice is sop soothing it could be used as a tranquiliser..

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    Joe Testa Santa is freaking more than 1,000 years old. 😂

  56. p.... r....

    I used to listen to this when I was 5 years old with my grandmother for many years. It was on a Perry Como Christmas album. For many years while I was in the Marine Corps I searched for that album and this particular story. Finally after many, many years and searching the internet I found it. My dear grandmother has since died but tonight I sit both reading this to my own grandchildren as well as listening to it. I’m 57 years old now but the magic and memories have never left. May God bless each and every one of you. Merry Christmas and may you all I’ve to see many, many more.

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    panama rasta thank you you’re so kind even though it’s February.

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    Darth Zuluaga I could listen to this all year round. There’s good memories whenever I do. I haven’t listened to this in February. Strange that this shows my comment posted a month ago even though it was Christmas.

  57. S.... R....

    Watched this at 4am Christmas Day 2018 to bring back childhood memories, thank you and Merry Christmas to all

  58. M.... B....

    Watch this every year on Christmas Eve before I go to bed💚❤ Merry Christmas 🎄 🎁Hope everyone has a wonderful Christmas and a wonderful year!

  59. K.... M....

    Listening to Christmas Eve 2018 the Night before Christmas ☃️🎅🏽🤶🏽🌲🎄🎁 Merry Christmas everyone and happy holidays

  60. R.... W....

    10:54 on Christmas Eve 2018! ❤️ Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night!

  61. Y.... F....

    Thank you!! Perfect way to end Christmas Eve 2018

  62. w.... ....

    Got this to 1M viewa

  63. S.... R....

    Omg this was posted in 2008😂

  64. m.... M....

    I love e Perry Como's voice. I wish he were available for some of my audiobooks!!!

  65. N.... C....

    Watching this as a tradition I’m ready for Christmas

  66. m.... M....

    ..." all SNUG in our beds"...( not 'safe')

  67. A.... C....

    Watching this at 9:56pm Christmas Eve 2018.

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    10:56, here, in CT.

    A.... C....

    9:11 with my 7 year old daughter in San Francisco, CA.

    A.... C....

    Christmas morning 5.15am here in the UK

    A.... C....

    9:43, Oregon 🙂

    A.... C....

    It’s summer break in two weeks but honestly I can’t wait for Christmas 🎄

  68. T.... R....

    I love listening to this before i go to bed on christmas eve

  69. T.... 2....

    Festivus for the rest of us

  70. K.... R....

    Christmas 2018 right now

  71. L.... G....

    Christmas 2018 in 20 minutes ❤️❤️

    L.... G....

    Aww yay

    L.... G....

    Christmas 2019 in 3 days

    L.... G....

    Christmas 2020 in 2 days (I'm from the future)

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    Christmas 2021 in 1 day (I’m from even more the future)

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    @Andrea Heiligh it's tomorrow now!

  72. J.... ....

    Christmas is tomorrow

  73. i.... ....

    posted at 10 on Christmas night. a merry Christmas to all! ; )

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    idontknow and to all a good night!

  74. W.... S....

    Well it is

  75. j.... a....

    Twas The Raw Before Christmas

  76. S.... C....

    Merry Christmas 2018 :)

  77. M.... ....

    Why do some versions say settled our brains for a long winters nap??

  78. r.... s....

    Charlie Brown, Grinch, and Rudolph makes it yearly rounds...but I think they forgot about this program.....used to show this a lot in the sixties.

  79. S.... E....

    My kids and I absolutely love this. We enjoy the book and this audio. Thanks!
    It puts us in the Christmas mood.

  80. L.... C....

    Lmaoo Like and Comment on this if you are watching from 9th-hour ela :)

  81. H.... S....

    merry Christmas hohhohohoh!

  82. S.... V....

    only 5 days until christmas

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    @I Salazar well happy early bday to you :D

    S.... V....

    3 now! I'm so excited!

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    Only one day away!

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    Tomorrow is christmas

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    YA Y! IT'S HERE! MERRY CHRISTMAS!

  83. A.... ....

    Cock piss Partridge

  84. P.... S....

    Merry Christmas

  85. A.... g....

    child memories now I pass it to my son

  86. E.... G....

    Brings back memories!

  87. G.... C....

    This is the opposite of Bad Santa.

  88. D.... B....

    my Poem

  89. g.... t....

    I never knew how pretty this was

  90. A.... C....

    Ahhhhhh, this brings back great childhood memories!! 🤷🏻‍♀️⚡️💫💛🎄💛🎄💛🎄💛✨👏🏻

  91. a.... 2....

    At 2:52 that dosen't look like Santa at all! Looks like a creepy weirdo.