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Old City Bar Trans Siberian Orchestra

This song is a fantastic tale for Christmas that tells a story of hope, faith and charity.It starts in an old city bar on the night of Christmas Eve. A bar tender watches as a child walks into the bar and  he looks through the window and at the freezing wind and snow falling and spots a girl by a broken pay phone and asks why is she not home but states not that he cares. The little boy than answers I noticed If one could be home
They'd be all ready there. the bar tender than grabs some cash and heads across the street and calls for a cab.He did care.The girl is gone and so is the money but a wish was answered and a heart was touched, and the little boy disappeared. This song is a true Christmas miracle that teaches us of faith, hope and true Christmas giving.
 

In an old city bar
That is never too far
From the places that gather
The dreams that have been
In the safety of night

With its old neon light
It beckons to strangers
And they always come in
And the snow it was falling
The neon was calling
The music was low
And the night
Christmas Eve

And here was the danger
That even with strangers
Inside of this night
It's easier to believe
Then the door opened wide
And a child came inside
That no one in the bar
Had seen there before

And he asked did we know
That outside in the snow
That someone was lost
Standing outside our door

Then the bartender gazed
Through the smoke and the haze
Through the window and ice
To a corner streetlight

Where standing alone
By a broken pay phone
Was a girl the child said
Could no longer get home
And the snow it was falling
The neon was calling
The bartender turned
And said, not that I care But how would you know this?
The child said I've noticed
If one could be home
They'd be all ready there
Then the bartender came out from behind the bar
And in all of his life he was never that far
And he did something else that he thought no one saw
When he took all the cash from the register draw

Then he followed the child to the girl cross the street
And we watched from the bar as they started to speak
Then he called for a cab and he said J.F.K.
Put the girl in the cab and the cab drove away
And we saw in his hand
That the cash was all gone From the light that she had wished upon
If you want to arrange it
This world you can change it
If we could somehow make this
Christmas thing last
By helping a neighbor
Or even a stranger
And to know who needs help
You need only just ask
Then he looked for the child
But the child wasn't there
Just the wind and the snow
Waltzing dreams through the air
So he walked back inside
Somehow different I think
For the rest of the night
No one paid for a drink

And the cynics will say
That some neighborhood kid
Wandered in on some bums
In the world where they hid

But they weren't there
So they couldn't see
By an old neon star
On that night, Christmas Eve
When the snow it was falling
The neon was calling
And in case you should wonder
In case you should care

Why we're on our own
Never went home
On that night of all nights
We were already there