He met her up in Delaware in 1937   She was wearing red lipstick to match her pretty dress   December 24th at a quarter till eleven is when he finally gained the courage to ask her to dance      It was the night before Christmas, it was love at first sight   The carolers sang as they danced through the night   She was a small town girl, he was a traveling guy   He never caught her name before they said their goodbyes      A couple years later he was out on the road   Having Christmas dinner in a diner alone   When he saw a young waitress with a gleam in her eye   Her favorite day of the year she showed her spirits were high   She said sir can you shed a little holiday cheer   A simple Christmas story was all she wanted to hear   He looked prepared with a smile as he started to say here's my favorite Christmas story about a girl with no name      He said I met her up in Delaware in 1937   She was wearing red lipstick to match her pretty dress   December 24th at a quarter till eleven is when I finally gained the courage to ask her to dance      Every holiday season as he traveled he'd tell about his Christmas dance partner that he never knew well   He'd share his favorite story with the locals he met   He was called the Christmas story telling traveling man      By age 53 he had done settled down   All the neighborhood kids liked to gather around   Just to listen to his stories about his life on the road   All he had now were these children he told   And every Christmas eve they showed up before dark   He'd tell them all the story but they knew it by heart   They could quote it word for word, he always told it the same   It was his favorite Christmas story called the girl with no name      He said I met her up in Delaware in 1937   She was wearing red lipstick to match her pretty dress   December 24th at a quarter till eleven is when I finally gained the courage to ask her to dance      Twenty years later as he took his last breath   It was on a cold Christmas morning on a hospital bed   The children were grown, he had nobody left   Except the little old nurse who was holding his hand   He said Ma'am can you share a little holiday cheer   A simple Christmas story was all he wanted to hear   But his eyes filled with tears at the words that she spoke   Because his favorite Christmas story was the one that she told      She said I met him up in Delaware in 1937   Though I never caught his name he was a traveling man   December 24th at a quarter till eleven   I'm so glad he got the courage to ask me to dance