I'm Walking Backwards For Christmas
Composer(s): Tony Carbone; Spike Milligan
Performer(s): The Goons



I'm walking backwards for Christmas
Across the Irish Sea
I'm walking backwards for Christmas
It's the only thing for me

I've tried walking sideways
And walking to the front
But people just look at me
And say it's a publicity stunt

I'm walking backwards for Christmas
To prove that I love you

An immigrant lad, loved an Irish colleen
From Dublin Galway Bay
He longed for her arms
But she spurned his charms
And sailed o'er the foam away

She left the lad by himself, on his own
All alone, a-sorrowing
And sadly he dreamed, or at least that's the
way it seemed, buddy
That an angel quieted him....
An angel quieted the same

I'm walking backwards for Christmas
Across the Irish Sea
I'm walking backwards for Christmas
It's the finest thing for me

And so I've tried walking sideways
And walking to the front
But people just laughed, and said
"It's a publicity stunt"

So I'm walking backwards for Christmas
To prove that I love you