Gunshots banging gunshots banging
It’s Christmas time in Chicago
Bang bang bang hear gunshots ring
Soon it will be Christmas Day
City sidewalks busy sidewalks
Death in holiday style
In the air there’s the odor of cordite
Children screaming people ducking
Dying day after day
And on every street corner you hear
Bang bang bang
Bang bang bang
It’s Christmas time in Chicago
Bang bang bang hear gunshots ring
Soon it will be Christmas Day
Strings of streetlights, even stoplights
Blink a bright red and green
As armed looters rush home with their proceeds
Hear the gunshots see the bodies
These are bloody crime scenes
And above all the sirens you’ll hear
Bang bang bang, bang bang bang
It’s Christmas time in Chicago
Bang bang bang hear gunshots ring
Soon it will be Christmas Day
Soon it will be Christmas Day