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
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
Oh, pretty paper
Pretty ribbons of blue