Every year at Christmas

All I can see

Are pictures of the things I want

Around the tree

But this year's a little different

I'm not thinking of myself

So my prayer for this Christmas

Is for somebody else

So I pray

Joy to the world

Peace for every boy and girl

Hope when life is hard

Light when everything seems dark

God I know you're listening

And you can hear

The need of every broken heart

And all their tears

I don't have a lot to offer

Just this one simple prayer

That this Christmas everyone would know

Somebody cares

So I pray

Joy to the world

Peace for every boy and girl

Hope when life is hard

Light when everything seems dark

I pray that every hungry soul

Will be filled and will be warm

That not a single solitary child

Would suffer harm

And lord we find their ending

As we take another view

My hope is that this Christmas prayer

Would somehow come true

I pray

Humanity would rise

And join with me

And together we'll sing

Joy to the world to all the world

Peace for every boy and girl

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Light when everything seems dark

I pray that I pray every hungry soul

Will be filled and will be warm

Not a single child that not a single solitary child

Would suffer harm

And lord we find their ending

As we take another view

My hope is that this Christmas prayer

Would somehow come true

Joy to the world

Peace for every boy and girl