Rudy lives on the borderline   Between civilisation and basic survival   The summertime treats him fairly well   But the wintertime is a bitter cold rival      It's wintertime now in Georgetown   And the streets come alive with the Christmas lights   And Rudy sleeps on the warm air grate   With a newspaper blanket   On December nights.      Deck the halls,   Rudolph the red-nosed wino knows it's Christmas time   Jingle bells and Christmas shoppers dashing through the snow   God bless ye merry gentleman   Who have found it in your hearts to flip Rudy a thin   Cuz I'll be home for Christmas   But this man has no place to go.      Christmas has no meaning at all?   These people of greed and incredible waste   Who seek the deeper meaning in a shopping mall   With a yuletide spirit of impatience and hate   Rudy is a patient man   Who tries to see the beauty in everything   Is not a very demanding soul   Whose only wish is to live until the spring      Nobody knows the reasons why   Things turn out the way they do   And there ain't no one to tell you the reasons why there's fortunate folks like me and you   Rudy must have people somewhere who wonder what became of a man   And Rudy must wonder the same damn thing   As the crowd passes by and he sticks out his hand.      Deck the halls,   Rudolph the red-nosed wino knows it's Christmas time   Jingle bells and Christmas shoppers dashing through the snow   God bless ye merry gentleman   Who have found it in your hearts to flip Rudy a thin   Cuz I'll be home for Christmas   But this man has no place to go.      Rudy died on the borderline   Of a civilized world on Christmas Eve   And the shoppers shopped and the temperatures dropped   On a man whose absence won't be greived   Peace on the soul of the cop who found him   In a booth with his hand frozen to a telephone   Y'know, I think I know who he had on the line   And Rudy won't spend this Christmas alone.      Deck the halls,   Rudolph the red-nosed wino knows it's Christmas time   Jingle bells and Christmas shoppers dashing through the snow   God bless ye merry gentleman   Who have found it in your hearts to flip Rudy a thin   And I'll be home for Christmas   But this year Rudy gets to go   And I'll be home for Christmas   But this year Rudy gets to go