More songs by Danny Elfman
Description
Composer Lyricist, Producer: Danny Elfman
Digital Editing Engineer, Associate Producer: Bob Badami
Associate Producer: Richard Kraft
Recording Second Engineer: Mike Piersante
Recording Second Engineer: Sharon Rice
Recording Second Engineer: Bill Easystone
Recording Second Engineer: Andy Bass
Conductor: J.A.C. Redford
Other: Steve Bartek
Other: Dave Collins
Other: Mark McKenzie
Other: Letitia Rogers
Other: Patti Zimmitti
Other: Joel Franklin
Other: Megan Cavallari
Other: Mark Mann
Narrator: Patrick Stewart
Lyrics and translation
Original
And finally, everything worked out just fine.
Christmas was saved, though there wasn't much time.
But after that night, things were never the same.
Each holiday now knew the other one's name!
And though that one Christmas, things got out of hand, I'm still rather fond of that skeleton man.
So, many years later, I thought I'd drop in, and there was old Jack, still looking quite thin, with four or five skeleton children at hand, playing strange little tunes in their xylophone band.
And I asked old Jack, "Do you remember the night when the sky was so dark and the moon shone so bright?
When a million small children, pretending to sleep, nearly didn't have Christmas at all, so to speak?
And would, if you could, turn that mighty clock back to that long, fateful night? Now, think carefully, Jack.
Would you do the whole thing all over again, knowing what you know now, knowing what you knew then? "
And he smiled like the old Pumpkin King that I knew, then turned and asked softly of me, "Wouldn't you? "