We recently hosted another Christmas party. As the evening wore on people drifted into our living room where, gathered around the piano, we sang Christmas carols. For the most part, I played while the others sang. We had anticipated this so we even had lyric sheets prepared for the more common carols - both religious (Silent Night) and secular (White Christmas). We were just about done with all the songs that I had printed up when someone called out, "Let's do Grandma got run over by a reindeer!" I, of course, protested that we didn't have the lyrics printed out for that. That didn't seem to faze anyone as the lyrics are apparently quite well known by now. And I did have the music in the songbook pictured above - The Lighter Side of Christmas.
After we played and sang that, I suggested we try "Grandpa's gonna sue the pants off Santa" also from that book. No one was familiar with that but they all wanted to hear it. I played while someone read over my shoulder. Is it some kind of comment on our society that so many people laughed but agreed with the sentiment? We had a lawyer in the crowd who pointed out that the songwriter had taken some literary license with some of the legal technicalities. You don't get "arraigned" in a civil case, for example. Darn lawyers. They're always spoiling something.
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