Twas The Night Before Christmas

Twas the night before Christmas and all through the town all the people were gathering where celebrations abound;
With ma in her PJ's and I in the sack we had just settled down for a Christmas eve nap;
When a ring from the telephone rang in my ear, it was the town water guy saying we've got problems out here;
"People in town have no water, we have a broken main line"! This is what I dread most, could it come at a worse time?! ;
Away to the closet I flew like a flash, put on all my warm clothes, dang I don't have a sash.
I drove to the town hall to meet Richard up there, I found him wringing his hands and hanging his head in despair;
We looked at each other and said, "what should we do"? Then we got out the water system plans to locate a water valve or two;
We knew we could get water from the neighbors, and that would save the day, but we needed to shut off the broken line and locate the neighbors water in some way;
With plans in hand and shovels in the truck ,we braved a cold winter storm praying for success and that we wouldn't get stuck;
We shoveled deep snow and braved fierce howling winds, but we found the right valves, got water back on, and had wide frozen grins;
At two in the morning accomplishment done, we staggered back home to rest before good Christmas fun;
Most will never know what we went through, but that is okay, that's just what we do.