♪ Rudy lives on the borderline Between civilization and basic survival And the summertime treats him fairly well But the wintertime is a bitter cold rattle And it's wintertime now in Georgetown The streets come alive with the Christmas lights And Rudy sleeps on a warm air cradle With a newspaper blanket on December nights ♪ Deck the halls, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Lion-O Knows it's Christmastime Jingle bells and Christmas shoppers Dashing through the snow God rest you merry gentlemen Who have found it in your hearts to flip Rudy a fin And I'll be home for Christmas But this man has no place to go ♪ Christmas has little meaning, you know To people of greed and incredible waste You seek the deeper meaning in a shopping mall In a yuletide spirit of impatience and haste Rudy is a patient man Who tries to see the beauty in everything He's not a very demanding soul Who's only with us to live until he's sprung ♪ Nobody knows the reasons why Things turn out like 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 the man Rudy must wonder the same damn thing When the crowd passes by and he sticks out his hand ♪ Deck the halls with all the red nose While the nose is Christmastime Jingle bells and Christmas shoppers Dashing through the snow God rest you merry gentlemen Who have found it in your hearts to flip Rudy a fin And 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 You know the shoppers shout and the temperatures drop A man whose absence won't be grieved Peace on the soul of the cop who fell In a booth with his headphones to a telephone You know I think I know who he had on the line And Rudy won't spend this Christmas alone ♪ Deck the halls with all the red nose While the nose is Christmastime Jingle bells and Christmas shoppers Dashing through the snow God rest you merry gentlemen Who have found it in your hearts to flip Rudy a fin And I'll be home for Christmas And this here Rudy gets a gun And I'll be home for Christmas And this here Rudy gets a gun ♪