{"id":647,"date":"2016-12-31T09:15:12","date_gmt":"2016-12-31T17:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cookholidays.com\/blog\/?p=647"},"modified":"2016-12-31T09:16:40","modified_gmt":"2016-12-31T17:16:40","slug":"his-favorite-christmas-story-by-capital-lights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cookholidays.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/31\/his-favorite-christmas-story-by-capital-lights\/","title":{"rendered":"His Favorite Christmas Story- By: Capital Lights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><p style=\"text-align:center;display:block;overflow:hidden;clear:left\">\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mNgSMCaje4c\" target=\"_blank\" alt=\"mNgSMCaje4c\" class=\"youtube\">\n        <img src=\"https:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/mNgSMCaje4c\/0.jpg\" width=\"90%\" height=\"\" \/>\n        <\/a><\/p><script>loadYouTube();<\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">He met her up in Delaware in 1937<br \/>\nShe was wearing red lipstick to match her pretty dress<br \/>\nDecember 24th at a quarter till eleven is when he finally gained the courage to ask her to dance<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It was the night before Christmas, it was love at first sight<br \/>\nThe carolers sang as they danced through the night<br \/>\nShe was a small town girl, he was a traveling guy<br \/>\nHe never caught her name before they said their goodbyes<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">A couple years later he was out on the road<br \/>\nHaving Christmas dinner in a diner alone<br \/>\nWhen he saw a young waitress with a gleam in her eye<br \/>\nHer favorite day of the year she showed her spirits were high<br \/>\nShe said sir can you shed a little holiday cheer<br \/>\nA simple Christmas story was all she wanted to hear<br \/>\nHe looked prepared with a smile as he started to say here&#8217;s my favorite Christmas story about a girl with no name<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">He said I met her up in Delaware in 1937<br \/>\nShe was wearing red lipstick to match her pretty dress<br \/>\nDecember 24th at a quarter till eleven is when I finally gained the courage to ask her to dance<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Every holiday season as he traveled he&#8217;d tell about his Christmas dance partner that he never knew well<br \/>\nHe&#8217;d share his favorite story with the locals he met<br \/>\nHe was called the Christmas story telling traveling man<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">By age 53 he had done settled down<br \/>\nAll the neighborhood kids liked to gather around<br \/>\nJust to listen to his stories about his life on the road<br \/>\nAll he had now were these children he told<br \/>\nAnd every Christmas eve they showed up before dark<br \/>\nHe&#8217;d tell them all the story but they knew it by heart<br \/>\nThey could quote it word for word, he always told it the same<br \/>\nIt was his favorite Christmas story called the girl with no name<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">He said I met her up in Delaware in 1937<br \/>\nShe was wearing red lipstick to match her pretty dress<br \/>\nDecember 24th at a quarter till eleven is when I finally gained the courage to ask her to dance<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Twenty years later as he took his last breath<br \/>\nIt was on a cold Christmas morning on a hospital bed<br \/>\nThe children were grown, he had nobody left<br \/>\nExcept the little old nurse who was holding his hand<br \/>\nHe said Ma&#8217;am can you share a little holiday cheer<br \/>\nA simple Christmas story was all he wanted to hear<br \/>\nBut his eyes filled with tears at the words that she spoke<br \/>\nBecause his favorite Christmas story was the one that she told<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">She said I met him up in Delaware in 1937<br \/>\nThough I never caught his name he was a traveling man<br \/>\nDecember 24th at a quarter till eleven<br \/>\nI&#8217;m so glad he got the courage to ask me to 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