Complete ATR Christmas Catalog!

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Tom Waits - Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxVo5mjK4eg

Hey Charlie I'm pregnant and living on 9th Street, right above a dirty bookstore off Euclid Avenue. And I stopped taking dope and I quit drinking whiskey, and my old man plays the trombone and works out at the track.

He says that he loves me even though it's not his baby. He says that he'll raise him up like he would his own son. And he gave me a ring, that was worn by his mother, and he takes me out dancing every Saturday night.

And hey Charlie I think about you every time I pass a filling station, on account of all the grease you used to wear in your hair. And I still have that record of Little Anthony and the Imperials, but someone stole my record player, now how do you like that?

Hey Charlie I almost went crazy after Mario got busted. I went back to Omaha to live with my folks. But everyone I used to know was either dead or in prison, so I came back to Minneapolis, this time I think I'm gonna stay.

Hey Charlie I think I'm happy for the first time since my accident. And I wish I had all the money we used to spend on dope. I'd buy me a used car lot and I wouldn't sell any of 'em. I'd just drive a different car every day, depending on how I feel.

Hey Charlie for christsakes if you want to know the truth of it, I don't have a husband, he don't play the trombone. I need to borrow money to pay this lawyer. And Charlie hey, I'll be eligible for parole come Valentine's Day.

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Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan - Time of the Season
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MWHFrXiq-Y

Christmas Eve the lights went out
That don’t really help the situation
She grabbed his coat and kicked him out
Some angel had been praying for salvation
Cats don’t believe in Santa Claus, spayed
And declawed
It’s not me you’re deceiving
And peace and love is all around
At this time of the season

You knew I’d been with dirty dogs and kissed
Some frogs
You knew how I was feeling
Underneath the mistletoe and stars you know you
Set my senses reeling
In your embrace I found my place
Outside it’s freezing

I will love you most of all
At this time of the season
I tracked you down to London town
Met you at the station
Kings Cross by the east coast line
Wanted to explain the situation
Duty calls with ties that bind
I know you have your reasons
We all do what we have to do
At this time of the season

I dreamed of you in Birmingham
We had no plan
That’s what really made it
That Christmas song by Boney M
The deejay at the local station played it
You took a job in Zanzibar
I did my Christmas shopping
I thought about you all the way
On my Atlantic crossing

Spoke with you in Amsterdam
Said if we stand a chance, we should take it
The red lights and the coffee stands
Said if we’re feeling love then we should make it
Like a child I gave my heart
Now why do you have to break it?
If there’s sense inside that head of yours
Well now’s the time to wake it

Baby in a manger cries
And men who’re wise
Well seeing is believing
No pantomime
No alibi
The joker in the pack is always dealing
If loving someone is a crime
Then strike me down
Within the spell
I’m weaving
And pair me with the circus clown
At this time of the season