Another Den Hollinden Christmas song starring a tiny southern Indiana town. Watch for an album in maybe Christmas 2009!
Huntingburg is one of those towns--small and not so--scattered throughout this great country of ours and probably the world where people just can't seem to wait until respectably close to Christmas to start celebrating. I figured that was reason enough to immortalize them in their own song.
Tom T. Turkey got murdered last night
His body's not even cold.
The weatherman's sayin' zero zip nada
There's no chance it's gonna snow
So there must have been a time warp
Some kinda temporal apparition
'Cause Fourth Street's covered with a white tarp
And they expect another four to six inches
And...
It's Christmas in Huntingburg
Look at all the lights
They're carolin' on Fourth Street
It's a noisy silent night
All music and movement
Like some Christmas toy
Carried lovingly across the world
To some good little girl or boy
Papa says it's still a might previous
To go cut down a Christmas tree
Mama's busy bakin' pumpkin pies
For my brothers and me
Still there's no denyin' what's transpirin'
Over in Huntingburg
With Santa up in the 'hood his trip to our neck of the woods
Can't be far behind
Yeah...
(Repeat chorus)
They're makin' a list; they're checkin' it twice
Santa and the CIA
What goes down Christmas morn in your little town
Depends on what you do here today
So you better not pout you better not laugh
You better know who you're talkin' to
Cause those Huntingburg folks ain't foolin' around
When they say Merry Christmas to you
It's Christmas in Huntingburg
Can't you feel the cheer?
When Santa makes his yearly run
He starts out right here.
It's Christmas in Huntingburg.
It's Christmas in Huntingburg.
It's Christmas in Huntingburg.