If you're like us, you're a procrastinator who sat out on the traditional day-after-Thanksgiving holiday shopping spree known as Black Friday. Your idea of Black Friday is Christmas Eve, which ...

Since November, the 2004 Countryside High graduate has been creating boxes of love - pieces of wood wrapped in paper and curly ribbon with a candy cane on top. An attached message says they are ...

Since 1963, we've heard songwriter Willie Nelson's sad ballad "Pretty Paper," plucking heartstrings with a lyric about holiday shoppers rushing past a disabled street vendor selling "pretty paper ...

The mystery of ‘Pretty Paper,’ Fort Worth’s Christmas song, is solved. Readers who shopped at Leonards Department Store will remember.

And of “Pretty Paper,” she said, “I loved the song the first time I ever heard it.” She liked it so much, she decided she wanted to sing it on her 2020 album, A Holly Dolly Christmas.

Pretty paper, pretty ribbons of blue/Wrap your presents to your darling from you Pretty pencils to write “I love you”/Pretty paper, pretty ribbons of blue ...

From PRETTY PAPER: A Christmas Tale by Willie Nelson. Published by Blue Rider Press, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC.

Nelson wrote “Pretty Paper” in 1963 after witnessing a disabled man selling pencils and wrapping paper outside a department store. Like the best of Christmas music, it’s underscored with an ...

Below, watch the “Pretty Paper” music video directed by Leanna Kaise. A Peace Of Us is out 11/22 via Carpark Records. Pre-order it here.

Adapted from columns Dec. 25, 2004; Dec. 24, 2010; and Dec. 24, 2016. The mystery of Fort Worth’s Christmas song is solved. It took help from readers in Palo Pinto County, plus one surprised ...