Yogi Yorgessen, I Was Santa Claus at the School House (for the P.T.A.)
We had this on a 78 when I was a kid and every year my dad would play it and laugh till tears ran down his cheeks.
Author: Tom Barrett
Alley-ga-roo!
Christmas the cowboy way. With yodelling.
Cauliflower
Paul Kelly, How to Make Gravy.
Continuing our theme of Yuletide incarceration.
Swaller dollar
John Prine, Christmas in Prison.
The searchlight in the big yard swings around with the gun
And it spotlights the snowflakes like the dust in the sun.
Nora’s freezin’ on the trolley
Big Louie finds himself on the naughty list.
Walla Walla, Wash., an’ Kalamazoo!
Robert Earl Keen, Merry Christmas From the Family. Almost certainly the only Christmas song to reference AA, Bloody Marys, and tampons.
With Boston Charlie
Lambert, Hendricks & Ross wish you a cool yule.
Deck us all
Lines I like
Last summer I swam in a public place and a reservoir to boot
At the latter I was informal, at the former I wore my suit
I wore my swimming suit
Loudon Wainwright III
The Swimming Song
Election Day
“Get at it, boys,” said Mr. Smith, “vote and keep on voting till they make you quit.”
Stephen Leacock
The Candidacy of Mr. Smith
in Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
Canadians go to the polls today, from coast to coast to coast.
This is a limited offer: one vote per customer.
Rannygazoo 