Tom Lehrer

A Christmas Carol


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One very familiar type of song is the christmas carol. although it is perhaps a bit out of season at this time. however, I'm informed by my "disk jockey" friends - of whom I have none,
In order to get a song popular by christmas time, you have to start plugging it well in advance. so here goes. it has always seemed to me after all. that christmas, with it's spirit of giving, o
Us all a wonderful opportunity each year to reflect on what we all most sincerely and deeply believe in.

I refer of course, to money. and yet none of the christmas carols that you hear on the radio or in the street, even attempt to capture the true spirit of christmas as we celebrate it in the unit
Ates. that is to say the commercial spirit. so I should like to offer the following christmas carol for next year, as being perhaps a bit more appropriate.

Christmas time is here, by golly,
Disapproval would be folly,
Deck the halls with hunks of holly,
Fill the cup and don't say "when."
Kill the turkeys, ducks and chickens,
Mix the punch, drag out the dickens,
Even though the prospect sickens,
Brother, here we go again.

On christmas day you can't get sore,
Your fellow man you must adore,
There's time to rob him all the more
The other three hundred and sixty-four.

Relations, sparing no expense'll
Send some useless old utensil,
Or a matching pen and pencil.
"just the thing I need! how nice!"
It doesn't matter how sincere it
Is, nor how heartfelt the spirit,
Sentiment will not endear it,
What's important is the price.

Hark the herald tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things.
God rest ye merry, merchants,
May you make the yuletide pay.
Angels we have heard on high
Tell us to go out and buy!

So let the raucous sleigh bells jingle,
Hail our dear old friend kris kringle,
Driving his reindeer across the sky.
Don't stand underneath when they fly by.
Actually I did rather well myself, this last christmas. the nicest present I received was a gift certificate "good at any hospital for a lobotomy". rather thoughtful.


Writer/s: Tom Lehrer

A Christmas Carol de Tom Lehrer

This song appears in 43 albums

That Was the Year That Was - An Evening with Tom Lehrer - Tom Lehrer
That Was the Year That Was - An Evening with Tom Lehrer
2019
We Will All Go Together When We Go (Remastered) - Tom Lehrer
We Will All Go Together When We Go (Remastered)
2019
An Evening with the Infinite Genius of Tom Lehrer - Tom Lehrer
An Evening with the Infinite Genius of Tom Lehrer
2019
An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer, Live - Tom Lehrer
An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer, Live
2013
Essential Tom Lehrer, Vol. 1 (Live) - Tom Lehrer
Essential Tom Lehrer, Vol. 1 (Live)
2013
My Home Town (Live) - Tom Lehrer
My Home Town (Live)
2013
The Elements (Live) - Tom Lehrer
The Elements (Live)
2013
We're Listening to Tom Lehrer, Vol. 2 (Live) - Tom Lehrer
We're Listening to Tom Lehrer, Vol. 2 (Live)
2013
Have You Heard of Tom Lehrer, Vol. 2 - Tom Lehrer
Have You Heard of Tom Lehrer, Vol. 2
2013
The Elements - Tom Lehrer
The Elements
2013
Lehrer, Vol. 2 - Tom Lehrer
Lehrer, Vol. 2
2013
When You Are Old and Grey (Live) - Tom Lehrer
When You Are Old and Grey (Live)
2013
Poisoning Pigeons in the Park - Tom Lehrer in a Nutshell (In Concert) - Tom Lehrer
Poisoning Pigeons in the Park - Tom Lehrer in a Nutshell (In Concert)
2013
Musical Satirist, Vol. 1 - Tom Lehrer
Musical Satirist, Vol. 1
2013
Poisoning Pigeons in the Park - Tom Lehrer
Poisoning Pigeons in the Park
2013
An Evening With…Tom Lehrer - Tom Lehrer
An Evening With…Tom Lehrer
2013
Laugh-a-Long-a-Lehrer (The Dave Cash Collection) - Tom Lehrer
Laugh-a-Long-a-Lehrer (The Dave Cash Collection)
2013
An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer / Tom Lehrer Revisited - Tom Lehrer
An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer / Tom Lehrer Revisited
2013
Live in Concert - Tom Lehrer
Live in Concert
2013
Tom Lehrer Live - Tom Lehrer
Tom Lehrer Live
2013
Selected Recordings (Live) - Tom Lehrer
Selected Recordings (Live)
2013
Tom Lehrer Sings, Vol. 1 (Live) - Tom Lehrer
Tom Lehrer Sings, Vol. 1 (Live)
2013
Tom Lehrer, Live Recordings - Tom Lehrer
Tom Lehrer, Live Recordings
2012
Selected Recordings (Live) - Tom Lehrer
Selected Recordings (Live)
2012
Songs by Tom Lehrer / More of Tom Lehrer - Tom Lehrer
Songs by Tom Lehrer / More of Tom Lehrer
2012
Tom Foolery: The Very Best of Tom Lehrer - Tom Lehrer
Tom Foolery: The Very Best of Tom Lehrer
2012
An Evening With - Tom Lehrer
An Evening With
2011
Evenings Wasted with Tom Lehrer - Tom Lehrer
Evenings Wasted with Tom Lehrer
2011
In Concert - Tom Lehrer
In Concert
2011
The Very Best of Tom Lehrer - Tom Lehrer
The Very Best of Tom Lehrer
2011
Songs By/An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer - Tom Lehrer
Songs By/An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer
2010
The Elements - Tom Lehrer
The Elements
2010
More Of Tom Lehrer - Tom Lehrer
More Of Tom Lehrer
2010
An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer - Tom Lehrer
An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer
2008
The Very Best of Tom Lehrer - Tom Lehrer
The Very Best of Tom Lehrer
2008
Essential Tom Lehrer, Vol. 1 (Live) - Tom Lehrer
Essential Tom Lehrer, Vol. 1 (Live)
2008
Collection of Live Recordings - Tom Lehrer
Collection of Live Recordings
2008
We're Listening To Tom Lehrer, Vol. 2 - Tom Lehrer
We're Listening To Tom Lehrer, Vol. 2
2008
Musical Satirist, Vol. 1 - Tom Lehrer
Musical Satirist, Vol. 1
2008
My Home Town (Live) - Tom Lehrer
My Home Town (Live)
2008
Tom Lehrer in Concert - Tom Lehrer
Tom Lehrer in Concert
1960
More of Tom Lehrer - Tom Lehrer
More of Tom Lehrer
1959
An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer - Tom Lehrer
An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer
1959
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