The Christmas Flip-Flop Lyrics

I was shopping on-line at Christmas time

Didn't want to wait in line with all the fools

Didn't want to be around

That Christmas cheer no more

Was about to click the checkout button

Be done with all my Christmas shopping

Suddenly my computer froze

There was a knock at my front door

I said "Who's that? Is it you Laverne?

Baby, knew you'd come back to me"

When I opened the door

There was a boy in rags

With a tiny Christmas tree

He said

"My name is Shawn

My mama's got a wooden leg

She wants flip-flops for Christmas

I didn't come here to beg

But if you have an extra flip-flop

I'll give my Christmas tree to you

She's only got one foot that works

So one flip-flop will do"

Well, I looked in that little boy's eyes

They were welling up with tears

I looked deep down inside my soul

Been hardened by the years

I looked around the house

Where I'd been hiding from mankind

And I found that boy a flip-flop

Laverne had left behind

As the boy ran off with the flip-flop

I yelled to him, "What about my tree?"

He said "Oh yeah, shit, I almost forgot"

And he left it there for me

And as he disappeared into the night

I knew an angel had come to call

'Cause I got a free tree on Christmas Eve

And I didn't have to leave the house at all

Yeah

I didn't have to leave the house at all

(If you have an extra flip-flop

I'll give my Christmas tree to you

She's only got one foot that works...)