MERRY CHRISTMAS, MR SCROOGE

 

 

 

 

Another Christmas is here

May all your wishes come true

To all a happy New Year

A merry Christmas to you

 

Hey! Hey! It's Christmas again

With always too much to do

Roll out December and then

A merry Christmas to you

 

Go ring them bells

May all your Christmases be white

You boys and gels

Will have a merry time tonight

Ring out the news

And take each Christmas time to heart

Shake off the blues

When you spend Christmas apart

 

Another Christmas is here

May all your wishes come true

To all a happy New Year

A merry Christmas to you

 

Hey! Hey! It's Christmas again

With always too much to do

Roll out December and then

A merry Christmas to you

 

SCROOGE (quasi rap)

 

A merry Christmas indeed

It’s Bah! and humbug! I say

It's beef and suet I need

To sleep the blighter away

 

An extra coal on the fire

Is more than I can afford

I’ll dock that scoundrel I hire

His wage in full bed and board

 

A farthing here tuppence there

And so the money goes round

The man who wants his fair share

Makes sure to save every pound

 

SPIRITS AND GHOULS

 

A farthing here tuppence there

And so the money goes round

The man who wants his fair share

Makes sure to save every pound

 

SCROOGE

 

The millions starving each day

Who have no means to protest

Had better do it I say

And make more room for the rest

 

The fool who begs for the poor

Has nothing better to do

Than dare to knock at my door

To scrounge a guinea or two

 

SPIRITS AND GHOULS

 

A farthing here tuppence there

And so the money goes round

The man who wants his fair share

Makes sure to save every pound

 

Another Christmas is here

Long live the Christmas taboo

Just wish me happy New Year

A merry Christmas to you

 

Hey! Hey! a Christmas refrain

Shake out those rhythm and blues

If you get caught in the rain

Go shine those new dancin' shoes

 

Go ring them bells

May all your Christmases be white

You boys and gels

Will have a merry time tonight

Ring out the news

And take each Christmas time to heart

Shake off the blues

When you spend Christmas apart

 

Hey! Hey! it's Christmas again

They've plagiarised our new song

We'll take up paper and pen

And make it last twice as long

 

Another Christmas is here

If you can follow the hype

Just wish me happy New Year

And try to swallow your gripe

 

SCROOGE

 

Oh how I hate little boys

Who claim a God-given right

A predilection for noise

That keeps me up half the night

 

May little fingers and thumbs

Turn black and blue on the heath

And may they suck sugar-plums

And may it blacken their teeth

 

That poxy nephew of mine

Who's never once out of debt

Puts our good name on the line

I'll see him hang for it yet

 

The man who fears for the grave

And ends up coughin' a lot

Should quit his baccy and save

Or face a coffinless plot

 

SPIRITS AND GHOULS

 

A farthing here tuppence there

And so the money goes round

The man who wants his fair share

Makes sure to save every pound

 

SCROOGE

 

They crusify me in verse

They persecute me in rhyme

And though I'm stuck with this curse

I ain't committed no crime

 

I am a reasonable chap

And count me blessings b'gad

And when I'm through with this rap

They'll say I ain't even bad

 

SPIRITS AND GHOULS

 

A farthing here tuppence there

And so the money goes round

The man who wants his fair share

Makes sure to save every pound  

 

Another Christmas is here

May all your wishes come true

To all a happy New Year

A merry Christmas to you

 

Hey! Hey! It's Christmas again

With always too much to do

Roll out December and then

A merry Christmas to you

 

© Tim Higgs 2015

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