- Eddie Carswell & Leonard Ahlstrom

This song is so beautiful and touching. Christmas really is about giving not getting and this song says that very well.

IT WAS ALMOST CHRISTMAS TIME, THERE I STOOD IN ANOTHER LINE TRYIN' TO BUY THAT LAST GIFT OR TWO, NOT REALLY IN THE CHRISTMAS MOOD STANDING RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME WAS A LITTLE BOY WAITING ANXIOUSLY PACING ‘ROUND LIKE LITTLE BOYS DO AND IN HIS HANDS HE HELD A PAIR OF SHOES HIS CLOTHES WERE WORN AND OLD, HE WAS DIRTY FROM HEAD TO TOE AND WHEN IT CAME HIS TIME TO PAY I COULDN'T BELIEVE WHAT I HEARD HIM SAY CHORUS: SIR, I WANT TO BUY THESE SHOES FOR MY MAMA, PLEASE IT'S CHRISTMAS EVE AND THESE SHOES ARE JUST HER SIZE COULD YOU HURRY, SIR, DADDY SAYS THERE'S NOT MUCH TIME YOU SEE SHE'S BEEN SICK FOR QUITE A WHILE AND I KNOW THESE SHOES WOULD MAKE HER SMILE AND I WANT HER TO LOOK BEAUTIFUL IF MAMA MEETS JESUS TONIGHT HE COUNTED PENNIES FOR WHAT SEEMED LIKE YEARS THEN THE CASHIER SAID, "SON, THERE'S NOT ENOUGH HERE" HE SEARCHED HIS POCKETS FRANTICALLY THEN HE TURNED AND HE LOOKED AT ME HE SAID MAMA MADE CHRISTMAS GOOD AT OUR HOUSE THOUGH MOST YEARS SHE JUST DID WITHOUT TELL ME SIR WHAT AM I GOING TO DO, SOMEHOW I'VE GOT TO BUY HER THESE CHRISTMAS SHOES I JUST HAD TO HELP HIM OUT AND AS I LAID THE MONEY DOWN I'LL NEVER FORGET THE LOOK ON HIS FACE WHEN HE SAID MAMA'S GONNA LOOK SO GREAT REPEAT CHORUS: BRIDGE: I KNEW I'D CAUGHT A GLIMPSE OF HEAVEN'S LOVE AS HE THANKED ME AND RAN OUT I KNEW THAT GOD HAD SENT THAT LITTLE BOY TO REMIND ME JUST WHAT CHRISTMAS IS ALL ABOUT REPEAT CHORUS: