YES VIRGINIA, THERE IS A SANTA CLAUS

song lyrics by Joel Sattler

over a hundred years ago

a little girl wanted to know 

Virginia O'Hanlon was her name

she asked a question clear and plain 

She said, dear sir, I'm eight years old

My daddy told me write the news  

and ask a question, you'll tell me true  

"If you see it in the Sun, it's so." 

Please tell me truly, don't resist,

my friends tell me he don't exist

don't hesitate, do not pause,

but say, Is there a Santa Clause?

the editor took pen in hand

thought long and hard and with some pain

and then the answer came to him

and to the girl he did explain

Virginia, your little friends are wrong.

they don't believe cept what they see

they think they know it know it all

but everybody's mind is small.

in this great universe of ours

we all are insects near or far

the world is boundless beyond call

and no one can understand it all

Yes, Virginia, yes, yes, yes

there is a Santa Claus. 

I am quite sure, I do not guess

there surely is a Santa Claus

he exists as certainly

as love and generosity

and gives to every girl and boy

its highest beauty and its joy

alas how dreary be the world

to every little boy and girl 

if there were no such jolly man

if no Christmas through the land

there would be no childlike faith

no poetry to fascinate

no romance down from heaven sent 

to make tolerable our existence 

we'd have not but sense and sight

extinguish the eternal light

with which all childhood fills the earth

with every blessed child at birth 

Not believe in Santa Claus!

You might as well believe in not

and if your daddy makes a law

it's simply cause he has forgot

the most real things cannot be seen

even if they are only dreams

nobody can even conceive

of all the wonder you believe

there is an unseen world within

that's free of hate and fear and sin

it's up to you to break the seal

only love can make it real

only hope, romance and faith

can see that beauty lies beyond

and Santa is more than a wraith

and nothing else can last as long

No Santa Claus? Thank God he lives!

and may forever Christmas give 

10,000 years is just a start

to make glad every childhood heart 

Yes, Virginia, yes, yes, yes

there is a Santa Claus. 

and in he we all are blessed 

thank God for Santa Claus ! 

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