like a fixture down on main street she stood there all year long with a tin cup and a tamborine singing christmas songs folks thought she was crazy but they loved to hear her sing they d drop some money in her can she d shake that tamborine and they called her christmas carol there s not a christmas song she couldn t sing i remember christmas carol with her snow white hair and her beat up tamborine she wore that same old ragged coat all the year around lived all alone in a little shack just outside of town she d stand there singing jingle bells in the heat of the summer time yes every day was christmas in carol johnson s mind and they called her christmas carol there s not a christmas song she couldn t sing i remember christmas carol with her snow white hair and her beat up tamborine but i can still remember that twinkle in her eye cause carol kept a secret from the people passing by that secret was a mystery they talked about so long how each christmas eve those gifts showed up outside the children s home that was forty years ago or fifty i believe but still the toys keep showing up each year on christmas eve i wonder if we ll ever know just who took up the cause is it still christmas carol or is it santa claus and they called her christmas carol there s not a christmas song she couldn t sing i remember christmas carol with her snow white hair and her beat up tamborine 