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Now, whoever wrote that surely made a mistake,
For really, on Christmas Eve, I’m wide awake,
And I’m always stir, for on that night, you see,
Old Santa is sure to have something for me!
So with all due respect to the old Christmas rhyme,
That ref’rence to the mice has been
wrong all the time

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