What do you celebrate?
When the air is cold and the sky is gray?
What do you celebrate?
On the longest nights and the shortest days?
What do you celebrate?
Maybe Christmas Eve and Christmas Day
What do you celebrate?
The story of a newborn babe

Growing up in Austin, I thought
Christmastime was extra fun
My family knew how to get us lost
In a winter flurry in the Texas sun
Live nativity at our downtown church
Tea-rings to show our Swedish pride
Singing carols in Fort Worth
With Gamma's cabbage on the side

What do you celebrate?
When your family gathers 'round the hearth?
What do you celebrate?
To warm your body and fill your heart?
(Hey Mils!) What do you celebrate?
A miracle of love and light
What do you celebrate?
Hanukkah for eight whole nights.

In the kitchen, hear the sizzle
Of taters, onions on the griddle
Frying latkes with my mum
Can I eat ‘em all? Oh yeah, yum yum!
Brooklyn party at the big menorah
Where the Casio keyboard plays the hora
Lift me up in the cherry picker
Light the candles, watch ‘em flicker

There're countless happy holidays
In the months of winter weather
Each culture has a special way
To lead us through the dark
We don't have to be the same
To celebrate together
So light the lights, burn your candles bright
And share your shining spark

What do you celebrate?
What do you celebrate?

(Hey Culture Queen!) What do you celebrate?
We celebrate Kwanzaa for seven days
What do you celebrate?
We honor our culture in many ways

With my fam in Maryland (yeah!)
Kwanzaa's where the party was at
We lit the candles of red, green and black
On the table where the Kinara sat
Seven principles to explore
We did the Kwanzaa Slide on the dancin' floor
Friends and family came from everywhere
To show how much they love and care

There're countless happy holidays
In the months of winter weather
Each culture has a special way
To lead us through the dark
We don't have to be the same
To celebrate together
So light the lights, burn your candles bright
And share your shining spark

(Hey Lucy!) What do you celebrate?
Juntos we prepare la cena
What do you celebrate?
Pasteles for la Nochebuena

What do you celebrate?
(Joe Kye, let's hear you!)
Seollal is Korean New Year
What do you celebrate?
When we party with family, spreading good cheer

What do you celebrate? (Little Miss Ann!)
Pretty stars that line the Filipino streets
What do you celebrate?
They're called Parols and they're holiday treats

What do you celebrate? (Come on, Cindy!)
Drinking wassail by candlelight
What do you celebrate?
Beauty can be found in the darkest night

(Andrés!) What do you celebrate?
Ya llega la Navidad (Christmas is coming)
What do you celebrate?
La Novena a rezar (The "Novena" we'll say)

What do you celebrate?
(How about you, Dean Jones?)
Who me? Boxing Day, eh?

What do you celebrate?
All the happy holidays!