I Don't Want a Thing From You This Christmas

by Dylan Patrick Ward and Nate Goyette

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The song that started it all. Written in a trailer park on a crisp December afternoon in Bennington, VT. Played later that night at a redneck bar and pizza place right over the New York border. All in the year of 2019.
Now here it is, recorded and distributed to the general public for the first time. Written by Dylan Patrick Ward and Nate Goyette. Recorded, mixed and mastered by the great Alex Pastuhov. Merry Christmas everyone, and if he don't respect you, leave his ass!

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I don't want a thing from you this Christmas
I don't even want your Christmas cheer
I don't want a damn thing on my wish list
I don't wanna see your face this year

Jesus Christ was born in a manger
He may forgive you, but I don't
You can spend your Christmas with a stranger
Who'll do for you all the things I won't

On Halloween I heard you'd done me dirty
by Thanksgiving I knew you'd done me wrong
All those Christmas Eves when you'd desert me
by the coming of the New Year I'll be gone

Don't tell me about your resolution
Don't you try and tell me that you've changed
Whisky eggnog's got your nose a-blinkin'
But I don't wanna play your reindeer games

Get your mitts off my stocking
I don't need you sneaking down my flue

Don't you come here a wassaling
I don't wanna see the likes of you

The only thing I really want this Christmas
is for Santa Clause to bring me someone new
Somebody who's not so drunk and shiftless
and who will never do the things you do

Jesus Christ was born in December
he may love you still but I refuse
there's some Christmases I'd rather not remember
the only thing you gave me was the blues

I don't want a thing from you this Christmas

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released November 25, 2022

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Dylan Patrick Ward Town Of Rockingham, Vermont

a folk misfit for our absurd times

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