TRUE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT

In keeping with the tradition and joyous spirit of commercialism I would like to post this Xmas Carol written by Tom Lehrer:

From the Album:
AN EVENING WASTED WITH TOM LEHRER
(1959)

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 heart-felt 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

Ye 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.