YULETIDE RIOT

                   

I’m fed up shopping for Christmas

Tinsel and wreath’s all I need

Malls full of holiday wishes

Baskets of holly and greed

Out of red wrapping paper

Don’t you make me stand in line

Cops singing “Noel” make us safer

Won’t make me do more buying

Yuletide riot!  Yuletide riot!

I don’t care about convenience

Snowflakes and gingerbread trim

Toys, sleigh bells, and hoofprints

Kick the Dickens out of Tiny Tim

I hate hearing about Rudolph

Bet you probably feel the same

Just wait six more months, we’ll

Start another reindeer game

Yuletide riot!  Yuletide riot!

We’re gonna beat up a snowman!

Vandalize your Christmas tree!

Stop the Abominable Snowman!

Of Yuletide riot history!

Yuletide riot!  Yuletide riot!

SANTA PATROL!

             

Santa patrol!  Santa patrol!

Santa patrol!  Santa patrol!

Spirit and emotion

Long replaced by greed

Capitalist notions

And cultivated need

Tannenbaum for flocking

Season marked to sell

Sweatshop in your stocking

Sugarplums from Hell

Santa patrol!  Santa patrol!

Santa patrol!  Santa patrol!

Christmas decorations

Have been up sice mid-may

Mistletoe connections

Giift bankers holiday

Half-off sales in progress

Jesus gonna swoon

Baubles sold the jobless

Marked up twice since June

Santa patrol!  Santa patrol!

Santa patrol!  Santa patrol!

Winter Solstice deadline

Looms for mercantile

Jolly elves on breadline

Genteel allowed to steal

A “Ho-ho-ho!” repression

Of garland’s human cost

Boom-dot-com depression

Free market fruit cake loss

Santa patrol!  Santa patrol!

Santa patrol!  Santa patrol!

                             MUSIC BY CHRISTIAN ARNHEITER - LYRICS BY DALE BROOKS

                       RECORDED 2 NOVEMBER 2001 - RELEASED 18 DECEMBER  2001