(To the tune of: I Saw Three Ships)
Chickens, turkeys! Celebrate!
On Christmas Day, on Christmas Day!
The festive Nut roast’s on our plate
On Christmas Day in the morning.
No sausages or roasted goose,
On Christmas day on Christmas Day!
It’s time to let the livestock loose
On Christmas Day in the morning
Chestnuts are wafting in the air,
On Christmas Day, on Christmas Day!
Oh, let us taste this wondrous fare
On Christmas Day in the morning
No danger now for cows or pigs,
On Christmas Day, on Christmas Day!
We’re feasting now on dates and figs
On Christmas Day in the morning.
It’s Christmas party time again,
On Christmas day, on Christmas Day!
No fun for lamb or duck or hen
On Christmas Day in the morning.
But aubergines with parmesan,
On Christmas Day, on Christmas Day!
Wake up the taste buds more than ham
On Christmas Day in the morning.
To feed the world there’s not enough,
On Christmas Day, on Christmas Day.
Hungry people sleeping rough
On Christmas Day in the morning.
So my friends eat only crops,
On Christmas Day, on Christmas day!
And drink red wine! World hunger stops!
On Christmas Day in the morning.
4 comments:
A lovely ditty, Jennie; not sure what the relevance of red wine is, though... Good for the heart...? Aubergines with parmesan sound very tasty -- I need to get some recipes off you! :)
Alex
I can share my recipes any time.
I think the relevance of red wine is that hopefully, nothing except the exploited black grape had to die to create it. Or maybe it just fitted the rhyme?!
Thank you Alex for your always welcome comments. I believe the 2 songs posted this week were written in 2015 or 2016
Grapes are overly exploited; each year, many of them are squeezed into tasty beverages.
Blimey, you wrote those two pieces ages ago, then! Nice to see them appear on the blog; I can see that the one was originally posted in 2020. I think you should write another.
Merry Christmas!
Alex
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