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Lyr Add: Christmas song

09 Dec 07 - 08:12 AM (#2211841)
Subject: Lyr Add: Christmas song
From: oldhippie

Does anybody have more verses ( I think there might have been a middle one ), or a recording of the following song. We used to sing it in the 70s.

I'm writing this note to tell you
That taxes have taken away
The things I value most highly
My workshop, my reindeer, my sleigh

I'm making my rounds on a donkey
He's aged, and crippled, and slow
So, if I'm not there by Christmas
I'm out on my ass in the snow.

Santa Claus.


10 Dec 07 - 09:24 PM (#2212817)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Christmas song
From: Jim Dixon

If this page on military ephemera is correct, your song dates back to 1943 or earlier--except that it was "The New Deal", not taxes, that worked the mischief.

Click here for more Google hits.

I didn't look at every example, but every one I did look at had only the two verses.


11 Dec 07 - 08:18 PM (#2213500)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Christmas song
From: oldhippie

Wow, never would have guessed it was that old. Thanks.