Let's Skip Christmas This Year - Rodney Crowell

Let’s skip Christmas this year

Darling, what do you say?

Can’t we just let it slide

Like it was any old day

But with the money we save

Well we can just disappear

Before we both die of cheer

Let’s skip Christmas this year

We’ll stay out of the mall

All the glam and the haste

Just not deck the hall

Or stuff food in our face

We’ll tell our family and friends

That we still love them a ton

But we’ve just taken ill

And we won’t be much fun

Oh no don’t send us a thing

We’re contagious, we fear

Can’t you imagine their sneer

If we skip Christmas this year

Now we may share DNA

But we’re not the same kind

Let 'em bicker and fuss

Let 'em drink themselves blind

Let’s skip Christmas this year

Can’t we sit this one out?

Just pretend we don’t know

What all the fuss is about

Dinner plates will be thrown

Your drunk uncle will leer

We don’t belong in that sphere

Let’s skip Christmas this year

I’ve had it up to my ears

Let’s skip Christmas this year