A CAROL FOR THE 21ST CENTURY – LITTLE DONKEY

 

Little donkey, little donkey on the dusty road,
Got to keep on plodding onwards, with your precious load.
- Stuff that can’t we get the bus?

THINKING ABOUT CHRISTMAS

 

I’m sitting here in dread

Memories of you filling my head

Sitting here so totally alone

Afraid of Christmas on my own

It was always you and me

Doing Christmas so merrily

Then you had to go and die

Leaving me with no goodbye

Losing you was such a blow

I know you didn’t choose to go

But I’m the one that’s left

I’m the one lonely and bereft

And for that simple reason

I close the curtains on the season

I will make my Christmas solitary

And not have to try to be merry

And I will avoid the usual jollity

All our friends and their frivolity

CHRISTMAS GOOD WILL

 

I look from my window

Upon a street of cheer

And as I look upon the scene

As Christmas day draws near

I pray that this good will

Could last throughout the year

CHRISTMAS SURPRISE

 

She likes surprises

And at Christmas even more

So, I do what I can

To give her surprises galore

 

Each year it gets harder

But I do what I can

This year I will tell her

I haven’t always been a man

CHRISTMAS SUPERSTITION

 

Is Christmas day on Friday this year?

I think that it is, that’s what I hear

I’m one of those superstitious men

So, let's hope it's not the 13th then

SNOW BLIND

 

Since the snow began to fall

My wife has done nothing at all

But stare blankly through the window

As the snow lays snow on snow

If it continues in this way

We shall have a white Christmas day

But my wife stares through the glass

As the snow falls thick and fast

Sadly, if it gets any worse outside

I'll have to let her come inside

THE GLAD THE MAD AND THE BAD

 

Well, it’s that time of year again

The time when we feign gladness

When we all get caught up

In the annual collective madness

The time of year when we pretend

The world is not full of badness