It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas – English Lyrics

• By: Michael Buble
• Album: Christmas (Deluxe Special Edition)

Lyrics & Translation

Discover the magic behind Michael Bublé's iconic Christmas song! Learn how the lyrics paint a vivid picture of the holiday season and explore the cultural impact of this festive classic. Perfect for English language learners, this song offers a delightful way to immerse yourself in the vocabulary and traditions of Christmas.

[English]

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas

Everywhere you go

Take a look at the five and ten

It's glistening once again

With candy canes and silver lanes aglow

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas

Toys in every store

But the prettiest sight to see is the holly that will be

On your own front door

A pair of hop-a-long boots and a pistol that shoots

Is the wish of Barney and Ben

Dolls that'll talk and will go for a walk

Is the hope of Janice and Jen

And Mom and Dad can hardly wait for school to start again

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas

Everywhere you go

There's a tree in the grand hotel, one in the park as well

It's the sturdy kind that doesn't mind the snow

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas

Soon the bells will start

And the thing that will make them ring is the carol that you sing

Right within your heart

...

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas

Toys in every store

But the prettiest sight to see is the holly that will be

On your own front door

...

Sure it's Christmas once more

...

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
Christmas /ˈkrɪsməs/ A1	noun - the annual Christian festival celebrating Christ's birth, held on December 25
look /lʊk/ A1	verb - to direct one's gaze towards someone or something or in a specified direction.
go /ɡoʊ/ A1	verb - to move from one place to another
candy /ˈkændi/ A1	noun - a sweet food made from sugar or syrup, often flavored with fruit, chocolate, etc.
silver /ˈsɪlvər/ A2	noun - a precious shiny grayish-white metal. adjective - of a colour resembling silver; greyish-white.
toys /tɔɪz/ A1	noun - an object for a child to play with.
store /stɔːr/ A1	noun - a place where goods are kept for future use or sale.
sight /saɪt/ B1	noun - the ability to see.
pretty /ˈprɪti/ A2	adjective - attractive in a delicate way without being truly beautiful
holly /ˈhɒli/ B1	noun - an evergreen shrub with prickly dark green leaves and red berries, much used for decoration at Christmas.
door /dɔːr/ A1	noun - a hinged, sliding, or revolving barrier at the entrance to a building, room, or vehicle, or in the framework of a cupboard.
wish /wɪʃ/ A2	noun - a desire or hope for something to happen verb - feel or express a strong desire or hope for something that is not easily attainable; want something that is unlikely to happen.
talk /tɔːk/ A1	verb - to speak
hope /hoʊp/ A2	noun - a feeling of expectation and desire for a certain thing to happen. verb - want something to happen or be the case.
wait /weɪt/ A2	verb - stay where one is or delay action until a particular time or event.
grand /ɡrænd/ B1	adjective - magnificent and imposing in appearance, size, or style.
hotel /hoʊˈtel/ A1	noun - an establishment providing accommodation, meals, and other services for travellers and tourists.
park /pɑːrk/ A1	noun - a large public garden or area of land used for recreation.
sturdy /ˈstɜːrdi/ B2	adjective - strongly and solidly built.
snow /snoʊ/ A1	noun - atmospheric water vapour frozen into ice crystals and falling in light white flakes or lying on the ground as a white layer.
bells /bɛlz/ A1	noun - a hollow metal object, typically cup-shaped, that resonates when struck.
ring /rɪŋ/ A2	verb - to make a clear resonant sound
carol /ˈkærəl/ B1	noun - a religious folk song or popular hymn, particularly associated with Christmas. verb - sing carols
sing /sɪŋ/ A1	verb - make musical sounds with the voice, especially words with a set tune.
heart /hɑːrt/ A1	noun - a hollow muscular organ that pumps the blood through the circulatory system by rhythmic contraction and dilation. In vertebrates there may be one, two, three, or four chambers (such as atria and ventricles).

Key Grammar Structures

• It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas

  ➔ Present Continuous Tense used to describe something that is changing or developing

  ➔ The phrase "It's beginning" uses the present continuous ("is beginning") to show the process of Christmas becoming more noticeable. It's not just Christmas *being* present, but the *process* of becoming more Christmassy.

• Everywhere you go

  ➔ Adverb of Place 'Everywhere' + Subject-Verb structure

  ➔ "'Everywhere'" functions as an adverb of place, meaning 'in every place'. "You go" is the simple subject-verb structure. The line describes the widespread presence of Christmas elements.

• It's glistening once again

  ➔ Present Continuous with Adverb of Frequency

  ➔ "It's glistening" is present continuous, showing an ongoing action. "Once again" is an adverbial phrase indicating that it has happened before and is happening now.

• Toys in every store

  ➔ Prepositional Phrase acting as an Adjective

  ➔ The phrase "in every store" acts as an adjective describing the "toys." It specifies where the toys are located.

• But the prettiest sight to see is the holly that will be On your own front door

  ➔ Superlative Adjective + Relative Clause + Future Tense (will be) + Prepositional Phrase

  ➔ "prettiest" is the superlative adjective. "that will be" is a relative clause (with a future auxiliary) that modifies "holly." "On your own front door" is a prepositional phrase indicating location.

• Is the wish of Barney and Ben

  ➔ Subject-Verb Inversion (for emphasis or poetic effect)

  ➔ Normally, this would be "The wish of Barney and Ben is..." The inverted structure emphasizes the wish itself.

• Dolls that'll talk and will go for a walk

  ➔ Relative Clause with Future Auxiliary Verbs (will)

  ➔ "that'll talk and will go for a walk" is a relative clause describing the dolls. "'ll" is a contraction of "will," indicating future action.