Saturday, December 17, 2005

The Tree is Up---Long Live the Tree!!!


My wife and I put up our tree today. After all the talk about an artificial one, she stopped at one of our local tree sellers and found a beautiful Douglas fir for under twenty bucks. Huzzah!

Yeah, we Socialist, Christmas killing liberals put up a Christmas tree. We must be using it as some sort of a cover for our atheistic activities, right? Frankly, I just feel that, beyond our usual love of the color, lights, and music of this time of the year, it's a big green middle finger in the face of the ones who seem to feel that Christmas is a time for political pissing contests.

The real reason for the holiday was there in my granddaughter's eyes as she examined the decorations and smiled at the "Crippess" lights. And no one owns that but our family.

And who else remembers this old song by the great Stan Freiberg?

Nuttin' for Christmas

I'm gettin' nuttin' for Christmas
Mommy and Daddy are mad
I'm gettin' nuttin' for Christmas
'Cause I ain't been nuttin' but bad

I broke my bat on Johnny's head
Somebody snitched on me
I hid a frog in sister's bed
Somebody snitched on me
I spilled some ink on Mommy's rug
I made Johnny eat a bug
Bought some gum with a penny slug
Somebody snitched on me

Oh, I'm gettin' nuttin' for Christmas
Mommy and Daddy are mad
I'm gettin' nuttin' for Christmas
'Cause I ain't been nuttin' but bad

I put a tack on teacher's chair
Somebody snitched on me
I tied a knot in Suzy's hair
Somebody snitched on me
I did a dance on Mommy's plants
Climbed a tree and tore my pants
Filled that sugar bowl with ants
Somebody snitched on me

Oh, I'm gettin' nuttin' for Christmas
Mommy and Daddy are mad
I'm gettin' nuttin' for Christmas
'Cause I ain't been nuttin' but bad

So you better be good
Whatever you do
'Cause if you're bad, I'm warning you
You'll gettin' nuttin' for Christmas

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