"We Need a Little Christmas" is a song from Jerry Herman's Broadway musical Mame, originally performed by Angela Lansbury. In the film adaptation, it was performed by Lucille Ball.
The song is notably featured at the very beginning of A Muppet Family Christmas, in which it is performed by the cast of The Muppet Show as they drive to Ma Bear's farmhouse for Christmas.
Other artists who have performed the song include:
- Percy Faith
- Mitzi Gaynor
- Kathie Lee Gifford
- Hampton String Quartet
- The Letterman
- Kimberly Locke
- Johnny Mathis
- The New Christy Minstrels
- Sharon, Lois & Bram
- Andy Williams
- Patrick Wilson
- Daffy Duck (on the album Have Yourself a Looney Tunes Christmas)
- The cast of Glee (in "A Very Glee Christmas")
Lyrics
- Haul out the holly
- Put up the tree before my spirit falls again
- Fill up the stockings
- I may be rushing things but deck the halls again now
- For we need a little Christmas right this very minute
- Candles in the window
- Carols at the spinet
- Yes we need a little Christmas right this very minute
- It hasn't snowed a single flurry
- But Santa dear we're in a hurry
- So climb down the chimney
- Turn on the brightest string of lights I've ever seen
- Slice up the fruitcake
- It's time we hung some tinsel on that evergreen bough
- For I've grown a little leaner grown a little colder
- Grown a little sadder grown a little older
- And I need a little angel sitting on my shoulder
- We need a little Christmas now
- For we need a little Christmas need a little laughter
- Need a little singing ringing through the rafter
- And we need a little snappy happy ever after
- We need a little Christmas now