It was Christmas Eve, babe In the drunk tank An old man said to me Won't see another one And then he sang a song The Rare Old Mountain Dew I turned my face away And dreamed about you Got on a lucky one Came in eighteen-to-one I've got a feeling This year's for me and you So happy Christmas I love you, baby I can see a better time When all our dreams come true They've got cars big as bars, they've got rivers of gold But the wind goes right through you, it's no place for the old When I first took your hand on a cold Christmas Eve You said promise me Broadway was waiting for me I was handsome, you were pretty, queen of New York City When the band finished playing, they howled out for more Sinatra was swinging, all the drunks, they were singing We kissed on a corner, then danced through the night And the boys of the NYPD choir were singing Galway Bay And the bells were ringing out for Christmas Day We could have been someone, well, so could anyone I took your dreams with me when I first found you I kept them with me, babe, I put them with my own Can't make it all alone, I've built my dreams around you And the boys of the NYPD choir still singing Galway Bay And the bells are ringing out for Christmas Day And the boys of the NYPD choir still singing Galway Bay And the bells are ringing out for Christmas Day And the bells are ringing out for Christmas Day