Barbra Streisand
The Best Gift — Barbra Streisand
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Barbra Streisand’s career spans the stage, cinema and recording studio, with Funny Girl and “The Way We Were” among its familiar landmarks. Her 1967 release A Christmas Album includes “The Christmas Song” and “The Best Gift”. She brings a storyteller’s attention to these seasonal songs, finding character in the quieter phrases as well as the grand moments.
Show Lyrics — The Best Gift
The best gift That I ever got Didn't really weigh a lot It didn't have a ribbon 'round And it sometimes made the terrible sound The best of all it seems to me It wasn't neath the Christmas tree And yet, I guess I'd have to say That it made all the other presents twice as gay The best gift that I've ever known I'd always wanted most to own Yet in my dreams of sugar and spice I never thought it could be so nice The best gift that I ever get Was sometimes dry and sometimes wet Was usually pink but oftentimes red As it lay so innocently in its bed The best gift of the year to me The one I hold most dear to me A gift that simply drove me wild Was a tiny new born child...
