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Lavenderblue2
15-Dec-08, 20:58
It was Christmas Eve on a Friday
The shops were full of cheer,
With tinsel in the windows,
And presents twice as dear.
A thousand Father Christmases
Sat in their little huts,
And folk was buying crackers
And folk was buying nuts.

All up and down the country
Before the light was snuffed,
Turkeys they got murdered,
And cockerels they got stuffed.
Christmas cakes got marzipanned,
And puddin’s they got steamed,
Mothers they got desperate,
And tired kiddies screamed.

Hundredweights of Christmas cards
Went flying through the post,
With first class postage stamps on those
You had to flatter most.
Within a million kitchens,
Mince pies were being made,
On everybody’s radio,
‘White Christmas’, it was played.

Out in the frozen countryside,
Men crept round on their own,
Hacking off the holly
What other folks had grown.
Mistletoe from willow trees
Was by a man wrenched clear,
So he could kiss his neighbours wife
He’d fancied all the year.

And out upon the hillside
Where the Christmas trees had stood
All was completely barren
But for little stumps of wood.
The little trees that flourished
All the year were there no more,
But in a million houses
Dropped their needles on the floor.


And out of every cranny, cupboard,
Hiding place and nook,
Little bikes and kiddies’ trikes
Were secretively took.
Yards of wrapping paper
Was rustled round about,
And bikes were wheeled to bedrooms
With peddles sticking out

Rolled up in Christmas paper
The Action Men were tensed,
All ready for the morning
When their fighting life commenced.
With tommy guns and daggers,
All clustered round about.
‘Peace on Earth – Goodwill to Men’
The figures seem to shout

The Church was standing empty
The pub was standing packed,
There came a yell, ‘Noel, Noel!’
And glasses they got cracked.
From up above the fireplace,
Christmas cards began to fall,
And trodden on the floor, said:
‘Merry Xmas to you all.’

By Pam Ayres
From Pam Ayres 'The Works'
The Classical Collection