What if Christmas didn't come this year And no one paid for Christmas cheer? Who would cry the biggest tear The child or the store? Why do brides wear virgin white? Most do not deserve that right But to choose a color of their delight Would surely bring on the frowns To defy the laws of tradition Is a crusade only of the brave To defy the laws of tradition Is a crusade only of the brave, yeah Suppose the taxman, he comes to town And you don't lay your money down Yet Mr. Jones he killed Mr. Brown the other day Well I wonder, who's gonna go to hell I'm just a bill And I'm only a bill And I'm sitting here on Capitol Hill And I hope to be a law someday To defy the laws of tradition Is a crusade only of the brave To defy the laws of tradition Is a crusade only of the brave