THE ALL-PURPOSE CAROL

Music & Lyrics: John Forster

I'm Christian and I'm Jewish and of African descent.
I've always found the Holidays a difficult event.
So on the first day of Chanukah my true love sang to me
This new all-purpose carol
For trimming a hybrid kind of tree.

Merry Christmas. Happy Chanukah. Kwanzaa time is here.
It's that Fa-la-la Deidle-dum Jambo-jambo time of year.
Gloria... Boruch Ato... In excelsis deo.
Day-ay-ay-oh.
Daylight come.
The drummer boy drum.
The angels fly away-oh.

There is no Christmas/Chanukah/Kwabzaa storyline per se-oh.
So take your favorite parts from each and tell it your own way-oh.

'Twas on an ancient solstice night
'Neath a Kilamanjaro star
That Judas Maccabee hitched a ride
With his good friend Balthasar.
To a stable mean where Mary and Joseph
Had run so low on oil
That the little Baby Jesus
Had to get eight days worth from the moil.

Oh...Merry Christmas. Happy Chanukah. Kwanzaa time is here.
It's the Fa-la-la Deidle-dum Jambo-jambo time of year.
Gloria...Boruch Ato... In excelsis deo
Day-ay-ay-oh.
Daylight come.
Parrumppa pum pum.
Tell it your own way-oh.

It came upon a Ramadan.
The gladsome tidings swirled
And told about the mircale
To all the waiting world.
And to confirm this miracle
Of epoch-making scale,
On the day right after Christmas
Every single item went on sale.

Cho.

© 1997 Limousine Music Co. (ASCAP)