G'day,

At the Loaded Dog Folk Club, last Saturday, one item that appeared in the blackboard concert was Santa Claus is Dead. This starts with (~):

Santa Claus is dead -
They found him in a toy shop;
A bullet through his head.
A note pinned to his jacket,
Confirmed what papers tell:
That he was on the payroll
Of Toltoys and Mattel.

I thought I would be likely to find it in the DT ... but no!

It tried various net searches: "Santa Claus is dead " got 92,900 hits - but the top 20 didn't have anything vaguely like a song! A smart search on "santa(AND)mattel(AND)dead" trimmed it to 1990 hits - but little suggestion of a song.

The lady who sang it has moved out of Sydney, or I would ask her ... but it was a great song and I'm sure there must be 'catters who can find it (for a friend who was in the audience and asked if I knew it ... I said no problem ... Huh!).

Regards,

Bob Bolton