All I Want For Christmas IS My Two Front Teeth




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ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS MY TWO FRONT TEETH

Performed by Amanda Salloum and friends

Every body pauses and stares at me
These two teeth are gone as you can see
I don't know just who to blame for this catastrophe
But my one wish on Christmas Eve is as plain as it can be!

All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth,
My two front teeth, my two front teeth!
Gee, if I could only have my two front teeth,
Then I could wish you "Merry Christmas."
It seems so long since I could say,
"Sister Susie sitting on a thistle!"
Gosh oh gee, how happy I'd be,
If I could only whistle (thhhh)

All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth,
My two front teeth, my two front teeth.
Gee, if I could only have my two front teeth,
Then I could wish you "Merry Christmas!"

All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth,
My two front teeth, my two front teeth!
Gee, if I could only have my two front teeth,
Then I could wish you "Merry Christmas."
It seems so long since I could say,
"Sister Susie sitting on a thistle!"
Gosh oh gee, how happy I'd be,
If I could only whistle (thhhh)

All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth,
Two front teeth, two front teeth.
Gee, if I could only have my two front teeth,
Then I could wish you "Merry Christmas!"

It seems so long since I could say,
"Sister Susie sitting on a thistle!"
Gosh oh gee, how happy I'd be,
If I could only whistle (thhhh)

So all I want for Christmas is my two front teeth,
My two front teeth, my two front teeth.
Gee, if I could only have my two front teeth,
Then I could wish you "Merry Christmas!"
I could wish you "Merry Christmas!"
I could wish you "Merry Christmas!"

Source:
N.B. The lyrics posted on this blog are often transcribed directly from performances. Although it is my intention to faithfully transcribe I do not get all the words and I have a knack for hearing the wrong thing. Please feel free to correct me or to fill in the words that I miss by dropping me a message via e-mail. I'd be forever grateful. Thanks in advance!
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A Note From The Gull

Thank you Amanda.

"Patria est communis omnium parens" - Our native land is the common parent of us all. Keep it beautiful, make it even more so.

Blessed is all of creation
Blessed be my beautiful people
Blessed be the day of our awakening
Blessed is my country
Blessed are her patient hills.

Mweh ka allay!
Guanaguanare

2 comments:

old grammarian said...

I remember the song as 'All I want for Christmas ARE my two front teeth'. This is gramatically correct because the song title is a classic example of the subject following the verb instead of preceeding it.

Turn it around to 'My two front teeth are all I want for Christmas' and the clash between the noun 'All' and the pronoun 'I' is removed.

I realise that 'is' fits the modern fad to construct verbs in the singular when the subject is plural but I ask how the song was written? I have seen one old copy that uses 'are'- did the confusion exist at the time or have the words been changed later?

Guanaguanare said...

Oh,look what you've gone and done! Old grammarian, how will I ever be able to sing this song again without feeling compelled to lower my voice when I get to this point???

I have no idea what was used originally but from my own experience, I have always heard "is" being used. I'm guessing that we do not see an error because "All I want", in other words the only thing that I want presents a singular subject, and the linking verb "is" agrees with this singular subject and not its complement "two front teeth." I am neither a young nor an old grammarian so you've certainly given me something to think about.

I promise to add another comment if something more definite comes up but I feel that many more will continue to use "is"...If grammarians say that it is wrong, I will be among those arguing that it's what the little child said and we just have to be faithful to that version!!

I found the sites below which mention "All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth"

Major clause patterns. Scroll down to example # 16

There is an interesting discussion here.

Thanks for visiting and leaving this comment. I hope you drop by again to let us know how the debate is progressing. Until then...
All I want for Christmas hmmmm my two front teeth!

Blessings