[dj]

Hi, all:

As the holiday season has already started, with Hanukkah coinciding with U.S. Thanksgiving for the last time in 60,000 years, I thought I'd put up a seasonal number early, this year.

This is the finale from our current show, Every Christmas Story Ever Told. It's a fun and silly romp for three old coots -- er, mature performers -- in which they try to tell every Christmas story ever told. Also, touching on Hanukkah and Kwanzaa, among other things.

The original version of this is by Will Knapp, but the sheet music supplied at the end of the script is, frankly, unreadable and unperformable, so I did my own arrangement.

It's fun.

Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Joyous Kwanzaa etc.

David

P.S. the reference to "dung branch" is from the show. Mistletoe is from the Anglo-Saxon words for "dung" and "branch" or "stick", as the Anglo-Saxons believed that mistletoe grew on trees (it's a parasite) because of the stuff that little birdies left behind after sitting on the branches. So, go ahead: stand under the dung-branch sprig and pucker up!