Full Of Drink And Full Of Meat, On Our Saviour'S Natal Day, Charity'S Perennial Treat; Thus I Heard A Pauper Say: - "Ought Not I To Dance And Sing Thus Supplied With Famous Cheer? Heigho! I Hardly Know - Christmas Comes But Once A Year. "After Labor'S Long Turmoil, Sorry Fare And Frequent Fast, Two-And-Fifty Weeks Of Toil, Pudding-Time Is Come At Last! But Are Raisins High Or Low, Flour And Suet Cheap Or Dear? Heigho! I Hardly Know - Christmas Comes But Once A Year. "Fed Upon The Coarsest Fare Three Hundred Days And Sixty-Four, But For One On Viands Rare, Just As If I Wasn't Poor! Ought Not I To Bless My Stars, Warden, Clerk, And Overseer? Heigho! I Hardly Know - Christmas Comes But Once A Year. "Treated Like A Welcome Guest, One Of Nature'S Social Chain, Seated, Tended On, And Press'D - But When Shall I Be Press'D Again, Twice To Pudding, Thrice To Beef, A Dozen Times To Ale And Beer? Heigho! I Hardly Know - Christmas Comes But Once A Year. "Come To-Morrow How It Will; Diet Scant And Usage Rough, Hunger Once Has Had Its Fill, Thirst For Once Has Had Enough, But Shall I Ever Dine Again? Or See Another Feast Appear? Heigho! I Only Know - Christmas Comes But Once A Year! "Frozen Cares Begin To Melt, Hopes Revive And Spirits Flow - Feeling As I Have Not Felt Since A Dozen Months Ago - Glad Enough To Sing A Song - To-Morrow Shall I Volunteer? Heigho! I Hardly Know - Christmas Comes But Once A Year. "Bright And Blessed Is The Time, Sorrows End And Joys Begin, While The Bells With Merry Chime Ring The Day Of Plenty In! But The Happy Tide To Hail, With A Sigh Or With Or A Tear, Heigho! I Hardly Know - Christmas Comes But Once A Year!"