Christmas Is Now Drawing Near

	  		Artist: Coil 
Title: Christmas Is Now Drawing Near 

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Christmas is now drawing near at hand  

Come serve the Lord and be at His command  
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And God a portion for you will provide  
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And give a blessing to your soul besides 
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Down in the garden where flowers grow in ranks  

Down on your bended knees and give the Lord thanks  
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Down on your knees and pray both night and day  
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Leave off your sins and live upright I pray 

So proud and lofty is some sort of sin  

Which many take delight and pleasure in  
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Whose conversation God doth much dislike  
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And yet He shakes His sword before He strikes 

So proud and lofty do some people go  

Dressing themselves like players in the show  
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They patch and paint and dress with idle stuff  
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As if God had not made them fine enough 

Even little children learn to curse and swear  

And can't rehearse one word of godly prayer  
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Oh teach them better, oh teach them to rely  
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On Christ the sinner's friend who reigns on high