Absurd Christmas Lyrics...

[Rob Roy MacGregor]

From the song, "Do you hear what I hear"....


....a child, a child, shivers in the cold.... Let us bring him silver and gold.

Only a Jew could have written that!

Just an observation.

[markrivers]

Well, it's a song about the Nativity, so I doubt it. In fact, according to the obituary (http://slick.org/deathwatch/mailarchive/msg00933.html) of Noel Regney (the song's co-author), he...

...was drafted into the Nazi army despite being a Frenchman. He
soon deserted and joined a group of French resistance fighters. While
still with the Germans, he once intentionally led his platoon toward a
group of French partisans and was shot.

Regney and his wife, Gloria Shayne wrote that and other songs together, and Regney co-wrote "Dominique-a-nique-a-nique" with the Singing Nun (http://www.swinginchicks.com/singing_nun.htm). (One November night a couple of years ago, while listening to an oldies countdown show, I learned that the latter song was #1 the day Kennedy was shot, edging out "Louie, Louie". Creepy.)

Lyrics here (http://washingtonmo.com/christmas/lyric/1011.htm).