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There are no strangers on Christmas Eve.
(Adele Comandini, and Edward Sutherland. Michael O'Brien (Charles Winninger), Beyond Tomorrow, after proposing that the partners invite three strangers to dinner (1940).
Original story by Mildred Cram and Adele Comandini.)
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Everywhere, everywhere, Christmas tonight !
(Phillips Brooks (1835-1893), U.S. Protestant Episcopal bishop. Christmas Everywhere (l. 1). . .
Our Holidays in Poetry. Mildred P. Harrington and Josephine H. Thomas, comps. (1929) The H. W. Wilson Company.)
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I'm dreaming of a white Christmas,
Just like the ones I used to know,
(Irving Berlin (1888-1989), U.S. songwriter. White Christmas (song), Holiday Inn (film, 1942).
The song, first recorded by Bing Crosby in Holiday Inn (giving Crosby sales of over 25 million), was featured again in the movie White Christmas (Michael Curtiz, 1954), and recorded by artists as diverse as Frank Sinatra (1944), Mantovani (1952), and The Drifters (1954).)
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The eleventh day of Christmas,
My true love sent to me
Eleven ladies dancing,
(Unknown. The Twelve Days of Christmas (l. 76-78). . .
Oxford Nursery Rhyme Book, The. Iona Opie and Peter Opie, comps. (1955) Oxford University Press.)
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The third day of Christmas,
My true love sent to me
Three French hens,
(Unknown. The Twelve Days of Christmas (l. 8-10). . .
Oxford Nursery Rhyme Book, The. Iona Opie and Peter Opie, comps. (1955) Oxford University Press.)
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The sixth day of Christmas,
My true love sent to me
Six geese a-laying,
(Unknown. The Twelve Days of Christmas (l. 26-28). . .
Oxford Nursery Rhyme Book, The. Iona Opie and Peter Opie, comps. (1955) Oxford University Press.)
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The eighth day of Christmas,
My true love sent to me
Eight maids a-milking,
(Unknown. The Twelve Days of Christmas (l. 43-45). . .
Oxford Nursery Rhyme Book, The. Iona Opie and Peter Opie, comps. (1955) Oxford University Press.)
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The second day of Christmas,
My true love sent to me
Two turtle doves,
(Unknown. The Twelve Days of Christmas (l. 4-6). . .
Oxford Nursery Rhyme Book, The. Iona Opie and Peter Opie, comps. (1955) Oxford University Press.)
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The tenth day of Christmas,
My true love sent to me
Ten pipers piping,
(Unknown. The Twelve Days of Christmas (l. 64-66). . .
Oxford Nursery Rhyme Book, The. Iona Opie and Peter Opie, comps. (1955) Oxford University Press.)
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The fourth day of Christmas,
My true love sent to me
Four colly birds,
(Unknown. The Twelve Days of Christmas (l. 13-15). . .
Oxford Nursery Rhyme Book, The. Iona Opie and Peter Opie, comps. (1955) Oxford University Press.)
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