(Bill Anderson)      My Christmas list grows shorter every year   Things just aren't the way they were before   My Christmas list grows shorter every year   It's almost not like Christmas anymore.      I guess it's 'cause I came from a pretty big family   Christmas was always a big happy time   We used to swap presents with aunts, uncles and cousins   Course most of the presents just came from the five and dime.      I remember how I used to get such a big kick out of wrappin'   Just a simple little box and placin' it under the tree   Everybody at my house used to laugh and said that I was born   With a little too much of the spirit of Christmas in me.      I left home a few years ago, now   And it seemed then that things started to change   Mom passed on, now daddy's gone   Christmases seem sorta strange.      Sister ran off with some weird kinda guy   I never did understand him too much   My kid brother's off somewhere in the service   And he never was the kind to stay in touch.      Course I started my own family a few years ago   My wife and I had two of the cutest little girls   I, ha, ha, remember last Christmas I really went wild   I bought them just about everything in the whole wide world.      And I remember on the Christmas Eve night   I took 'em upon my lap   And I told them the story of Jesus   And the Santa Claus and the eight tiny reindeer   All I wish now is the spirit of Christmas   Could have lingered throughout the whole year.      You see my wife left me back in September   The kids are with her I don't know where   I'd love to just send them a small Christmas card   To let them know that daddy does care.      'Cause Christmas is a time for sharing your gifts   And your heart with the ones that you love the best   But sittin' here tonight lookin' at this big sheet of paper   I don't even have one single address.      My Christmas list grows shorter every year   Oh, what I'd give to just go back in time   My Christmas list grows shorter every year   The only name that's left this year is mine...