The DOWN side of Xmas. From getting the holiday blues, to the neighbors who don't take down their decorations, to those relatives with bratty kids...it's all here...
Edgy, Comedic, Quirky, Holiday Music with a Twist...
Bah Humbug!
Story behind the song
This is about all the things that annoy people when it comes to the holiday season. Did you ever notice how stores start putting out Santa decorations before Halloween? Or all the crazy drivers who take to the road this time of season? Not to mention the pressure of having to buy that something special, for that someone special? These are just some of the reasons for this song. I don't think anyone's put them to music before, so here ya go...
Lyrics
DOWN WITH XMAS
Lyrics: Harry Kopy, Music: Harry Kopy & George Simonovich
(Down with Christmas, Down with Christmas)*
Getting too commercialized, stupid gifts like sox and ties*
Putting on all kinds of weight, eating nuts and fruit cake*
Smiling at the relatives, smacking all their bratty kids*
Dealing with obnoxious clerks, while pushy shoppers act like jerks*
Down, Down, Down, Down
Cooking, cleaning, wrapping gifts, feels like I work a second shift*
The pressure mounts on what to buy, expensive things, I want to cry*
Department store’s Santa Claus, Ho-ho-hoing my lost cause*
They put their Displays out too soon, seems like Christmas starts in June*
They move their carts all through the aisles
The prissy girl says “that’s not my style”
The tried on rejects lay on the floor
With an armload of gifts she checks out of the store…
Down, Down, Down, Down
Depression now starts setting in, give me that gift wrapped bottle of gin*
The streets become roads of rage, put those drivers in a cage*
Outside my neighbor’s blinking lights, blinding me with elves in tights*
Can’t wait to get them up they say, then they don’t take them down till May*
Down, Down, Down, Down
…bah humbug…you’re gonna get coal in your stocking…bah humbug
© Simonopy 2003
