WEBVTT 00:01.125 --> 00:03.400 - Ladies and gentlemen, good evening. 00:03.400 --> 00:06.392 I want to take a moment to wish our COB2 friends and family 00:06.392 --> 00:09.629 a very merry Christmas and happy holidays. 00:09.629 --> 00:13.320 We recognize the holiday season is an especially hard time 00:13.320 --> 00:16.058 to be separated from our loved ones. 00:16.058 --> 00:18.816 However, the sacrifice of being apart 00:18.816 --> 00:21.255 is essential to preserving the freedoms 00:21.255 --> 00:23.005 we all enjoy at home. 00:23.147 --> 00:26.095 I want you to know that while your Marines and sailors 00:26.095 --> 00:29.668 are making a significant difference around the world, 00:29.668 --> 00:33.127 you are never far from our thoughts and prayers. 00:33.127 --> 00:36.994 So tonight, we'd like to bring you a special rendition, 00:36.994 --> 00:40.911 COB2 style, of Twas the Night Before Christmas. 00:41.200 --> 00:42.450 So let's begin. 00:43.231 --> 00:46.975 Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house, 00:46.975 --> 00:50.808 not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. 00:50.884 --> 00:54.529 The stockings were hung by the chimney with care 00:54.529 --> 00:58.612 in hopes that Saint Nicholas soon would be there. 00:59.411 --> 01:03.226 - The children were nestled all snug in their beds; 01:03.226 --> 01:06.083 - While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads; 01:06.083 --> 01:10.000 - And mamma in her 'kerchief, and I in my cap, 01:10.842 --> 01:14.674 - Had just settled our brains for a long winter nap, 01:14.674 --> 01:18.000 - When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter, 01:18.000 --> 01:21.130 I sprang from my bed to see what was the matter. 01:21.130 --> 01:24.182 Away to the window I flew like a flash, 01:24.182 --> 01:27.798 tore open the shutters and threw up the sash. 01:27.798 --> 01:30.187 - The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow, 01:30.187 --> 01:32.860 - Gave a lustre of midday to objects below, 01:32.860 --> 01:36.566 - When what to my wondering eyes should appear, 01:36.566 --> 01:40.588 - But a miniature sleigh and eight tiny reindeer, 01:40.588 --> 01:43.350 - With a little old driver so lively and quick, 01:43.350 --> 01:46.540 - I knew in that moment he must be St. Nick. 01:46.540 --> 01:49.762 - More rapid than eagles his coursers they came, 01:49.762 --> 01:51.620 - And he whistled, and shouted, 01:51.620 --> 01:53.787 - and called them by name: 01:53.875 --> 01:56.369 - Now, Dasher, now, Dancer, now Prancer and Vixen! 01:56.369 --> 01:58.873 On, Comet, on, Cupid, on, Donner and Blitzen! 01:58.873 --> 02:00.681 - To the top of the porch, to the top of the wall! 02:00.681 --> 02:03.280 Now dash away, dash away, dash away all! 02:03.280 --> 02:05.651 - As leaves that before the wild hurricane fly, 02:05.651 --> 02:09.810 When they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky; 02:09.810 --> 02:12.358 - So up to the housetop the coursers they flew 02:12.358 --> 02:15.798 With the sleigh full of toys, and St. Nicholas too. 02:15.798 --> 02:18.486 - And then, in a twinkling, I heard on the roof 02:18.486 --> 02:22.048 The prancing and pawing of each little hoof. 02:22.048 --> 02:23.131 OC OC, OC OC. 02:25.914 --> 02:28.639 - As I drew in my head, and was turning around, 02:28.639 --> 02:32.276 Down the chimney St. Nicholas came with a bound. 02:32.276 --> 02:36.443 - He was dressed all in fur, from his head to his foot, 02:38.146 --> 02:41.580 - And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot; 02:41.580 --> 02:45.049 - A bundle of toys he had flung on his back, 02:45.049 --> 02:48.713 - And he looked like a peddler just opening his pack. 02:48.713 --> 02:51.663 - His eyes, how they twinkled, his dimples, how merry! 02:51.663 --> 02:54.604 His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry! 02:54.604 --> 02:56.794 His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow, 02:56.794 --> 02:59.434 And the beard on his chin was as white as the snow; 02:59.434 --> 03:01.743 - The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth, 03:01.743 --> 03:04.247 and the smoke, it encircled his head like a wreath; 03:04.247 --> 03:06.673 he had a broad face and a little round belly 03:06.673 --> 03:09.852 that shook when he laughed, like a bowl full of jelly. 03:09.852 --> 03:13.904 - He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf, 03:13.904 --> 03:17.409 - And I laughed when I saw him, in spite of myself; 03:17.409 --> 03:21.076 - A wink of his eye and a twist of his head 03:21.423 --> 03:25.065 - [All] Soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread; 03:25.065 --> 03:28.356 - [All] He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work, 03:28.356 --> 03:30.754 - And filled all the stockings, then turned with a jerk, 03:30.754 --> 03:33.610 - And laying his finger aside of his nose, 03:33.610 --> 03:35.583 - And giving a nod, up the chimney he rose 03:35.583 --> 03:36.927 (explosion) 03:36.927 --> 03:40.510 - He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle, 03:40.510 --> 03:42.075 (whistling) 03:42.075 --> 03:45.287 and away they all flew like the down of a thistle. 03:45.287 --> 03:47.647 But I heard him exclaim, ere he drove out of sight, 03:47.647 --> 03:51.814 - [All] Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good night!