Here's the problem with the Little Drummer Boy: imagine your friend just had a baby. You go tot he maternity ward to visit. There's the new mother and the new father and the tiny little newborn baby, and you say "Gee, Bill and Susan, I didn't have enough money to get you a proper baby gift (I am a poor boy, too) but here is what I will do. I give you the gift of music." Then bang out a killer drum solo. How popular do you think you would be right then with Bill and Susan?
I don't claim to be any sort of baby expert, but here's what I do know about babies. They sleep. A lot. They really are just the laziest little people you'd ever want to meet. They sleep, they drink, and they pee themselves and cry. They're basically glorified winos. So the one thing that any parent of a newborn does not want is for someone to wake the baby. Because if he ain't sleeping, he's soiling himself and crying and no one wants that. Or he's reachin' for the boobies. Babies are freakin' obsessed with boobies! It's really just unseemly. Get over it babies, they're just boobies! Geez!
Anyway, if this kid came into the stable and started rum-a-tum-tumming on his little drum, Joseph would have thrown him out on his ear. And no way does the baby smile at him. I know he's Jesus, but still, he has his limits.
And baby Jesus is a way better drummer than you, anyway.
Here he is pounding out the solo from "Moby Dick"
2. Walking in a Winter Wonderland.
This is not, strictly speaking, a Christmas song at all. There is no mention of Christmas in the lyrics at all. (Why do they hate America?) But it is in heavy rotation around the Holidays, so I'm including it here. In the middle of the song there is this odd verse:
I love the demonic snowman photo!
ReplyDeleteYes, that's a great snowman, might be a more appropriate image for "Walken in a Winter Wonderland."
ReplyDeleteI think the "winter/snow" songs can be played all winter but much less often... that way they will be less tiresome, houses can be decorated (if people wish) all winter because there's more darkness... and it's pretty... and leave the religous stuff for no earlier than Hannukah.
I'm pretty sure that baby Jesus would have used some of his Father's super powers to blow up the little drummer boy-real good!
ReplyDeleteAn acoustic guitar solo- maybe. Drums..??? I'm with you and Baby Daddy Joseph, that kids out on his ass...(nicely of course cause, it is Christmas after all..)
((Hugs))
Laura