Best Christmas Songs -What Do The Lonely Do At Christmas

It’s Day 3 of my 25 Days of Christmas song list so that means it must be “What Do The Lonely Do At Christmas” by The Emotions. This gem is surely one of the best Christmas songs out there.

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What Do The Lonely Do at Christmas – The Emotions

The Emotions is a girl group from Chicago made up of the Hutchinson sisters Wanda, Sheila, and Jeanette Hutchinson. Their first hit was “Best Of My Love,” which was released in 1977 and spent several weeks on top of the charts. They followed it up with a collaboration with Earth, Wind and Fire with the disco hit  “Boogie Wonderland.”

Then pretty much nothing after that.

“What Do The Lonely Do At Christmas” was written by Carl Hampton and Homer Banks and released in 1973. Patti LaBelle did a cover of it in 2007 but I don’t think it’s nearly as good as the original.

This is yet another smooth soulful song and it’s spinning on my list this Christmas.

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Lyrics

‘Tis the season to be jolly

But how can I be when I have nobody

The yuletide carol doesn’t make it better

Knowing that we won’t be together
A silent night

I know it’s gonna be

Joy to the world

But it’s gonna be sad for me
What do the lonely do

At Christmas

Oh, oh, what do the lonely do

At Christmas time
The children can play with their new toys

While their little hearts burst open with joy

And lovers can kiss beneath the mistletoes

The choirs can sing those glorious songs of old
But what is left

Oh, for me to do

Now that it’s Christmas

And I don’t have you
What do the lonely do

At Christmas

Oh, oh, what do the lonely do

At Christmas time
Oh, oh, what do the lonely do

At Christmas

What do the lonely do

At Christmas
Oh, what do they do, what do they do

At Christmas

Ooh, what do they do, what do they do

At Christmas
Oh, oh, what do the lonely do

At Christmas

What do the lonely do

At Christmas
Oh, ho, what do they do, what do they do

At Christmas

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25 Days of Christmas

Day 1 – Merry Christmas Baby by Ike and Tina Turner

Day 2 – Ain’t No Chimneys in the Projects by Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings

Day 3 – What Do The Lonely Do At Christmas by The Emotions