Reader and commenter Gringo is a national treasure. At least in Sippicanville, surely. He’s reminded us that Tom Lehrer, another national treasure, at least once composed a Christmas Song. There may be others, I dunno. I’m not sure that Spending Hannukah in Santa Monica would count, but I guess it’s jubilee-related.
Tom had a great 97-year run, but his bones, if not the funny ones, ran out of gas this year. God rest ye, merry gentleman.
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I hope you won’t be offended if I draw your attention to a misplaced comma, and other matters.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_Rest_Ye_Merry,_Gentlemen
I’m not yet feeling the spirit of the season. Perhaps in a few days. However, in keeping with dropping seasonal tunes in the comments, I’ll suggest Rob Halford’s rendition of ‘We Three Kings’, unless you really dislike metal.
Hi Jed- No sweat. I’m not offended, but mostly because I put the comma exactly where I wanted it to change the meaning of the sentence, and I made gentlemen singular to finish the effect.
Oh, you little sneak! Yeah, I missed that. Damnit, I’m slipping.
Semi-Related
A quiz of Christmas Carols
Listed below are some popular songs and their composers who are generally far less known than their songs. Each of these folks has also penned a much more famous Christmas song. Guess the famous Christmas Carole written by the same composer(s)
1) On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe, The Trolley Song by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane
2) Time After Time, It’s Been a Long Long Time, Day By Day, Bye Bye Baby by Sammy Cahn and Jule Styne
3) The Music Man Broadway Show by Meredith Willson
4) Buttons and Bows, Mona Lisa, Que Sera, Sera, Tammy by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans
5) The Syncopated Clock by Leroy Anderson
6) Cheek to Cheek, Easter Parade, Blue Skies, Puttin’ on the Ritz (and many more) by Irving Berlin
7) A song written as a class assignment using only four notes (a four-note ostinato) by Ukrainian composer Mykola Leontovych in 1914
8) Cast Your Fate to the Wind – popular 60s jazz piano piece by Vince Guaraldi
9) The Messiah, Water Music, Music for the Royal Fireworks Hallelujah and many more Classical masterpieces by Georg Frideric Handel
Answers
1) Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
2) Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow
3) It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas
4) Silver Bells
5) Sleigh Ride
6) White Christmas
7) Carole of the Bells
8) Linus and Lucy and the Charlie Brown Christmas special
9) Joy To The World