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personally to me means the birth of
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i'm so happy every year to say happy
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and so to me i think sometimes we forget
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the true meaning of christmas those of
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us of the christian faith
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and so but to me the other part is like
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eating all that food eating as much of
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it as you can not feeling guilty about
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it till the first of the year
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trying to get that all off of you but
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just being with family and friends all
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all the decorations and it's just a
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joyful time it's just a holiday
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the holiday season it's just a joyful
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have fun and just kind of just love the
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season all the colors
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and all the presents and all the stuff
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oh i have so many childhood memories of
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christmas just christmas and the smokies
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is absolutely beautiful but i remember
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all the things that we used to do but i
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that there are two christmas memories
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to me that stand out one being that my
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was born around christmas so we always
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our christmas gift our christmas baby in
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fact i even wrote a song this year
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that's in my new christmas album it's
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called you are my christmas i get
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to sing it with my brother randy and
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heidi who both have worked on the park
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for many years and my other memory other
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our walking talking doll named randy is
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the fact that years ago
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my mom and dad got married when they
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were very young and they didn't have the
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to buy a ring mom had a house full of
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kids and never had a wedding band
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so daddy said this year why don't we all
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just pitch in any little dab we was
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going to spend on each other
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or with someone else and by mama when
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band we were all for it
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so we got to make a game out of that and
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the one that daddy said well i'm going
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to hide the ring and whoever finds the
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on christmas when we give it to mom then
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they'll get the special
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prize so we all looked and threw
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tore down half the christmas tree tore
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looking for the ring finally found it i
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swear that i found it my brother denver
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so we about tore the house down fighting
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trying to get the ring so anyway
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truth be told daddy had got a big box of
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for the one that found the ring but it
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that we had to share it with everybody
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else so it really was a gift for all of
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and mama loved her ring so that will
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always be special i even wrote a story
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called circle of love and that kind of
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represented that ring to me
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and the family circle and one that's one
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of the songs that's also in my new album
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called a christmas mini color circle of
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at dollywood we did the big premiere
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well my favorite thing about dollywood
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christmas is everything
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it's really got something for everybody
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and it's joyful and it's just perfect
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well i love the fact that dollywood is
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uh a tradition people come from all over
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the country even all over the world now
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because word gets around
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and christmas is i've mentioned before
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in different questions and things that
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but it's just like a wonderland and
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everybody loves all this
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the music that goes with christmas they
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play that on the park all the time
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millions of lights so radiant all the
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that they have to go with it and the
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families that take part
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in everything we do all the food and the
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drinks it's just like you don't
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have to do all that at home you can get
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go somewhere it gives you somewhere to
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go gives you something to look forward
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and just make it like a winter vacation
