'TWAS THE BLACK
BEFORE CHRISTMAS
AND ALL THROUGH
THE DOM
THE SCENE
WAS DESERTED
BUT FOR OLD
POPS AND MOM
THERE THEY SAT
HUNG IN THEIR BIG
EASY CHAIR
GOOFED ON
EGGNOG SHERRY
AND BEER
SIS AND LITTLE
JUNIOR LIE SNOOZIN'
IN BED
WHILE VISIONS OF
CADILLACS DANCED
IN THEIR HEADS
MOMS JUMPED UP
AND SAID POPS LET'S
QUIT IT TO BED
WE CAN'T LET
SANTA DIG US WITH
OUR EYES ALL RED
THEN OUT
ON THE STOOP
OOH WEE SUCH A
CLATTER
POPS SPLIT TO
THE PORTHOLE TO
SEE WHAT WAS
THE MATTER
HIS HEART DID
THE JUMPS AND HE
FELL STRAIGHT
BACK
WHEN HIS
GLIMMERS FELL
ON A RED
CADILLAC
STASHED IN
FRONT WAS A CAT
COOL AS ANY
WITH A RED
BEAVER HAT AND
A RED CASHMERE
BENNY
HIS GROUND
PADS WERE SUEDE
SHOES AND HIS RED
TWEED VINE COST
HEAVY DUES
HE WORE A
RED ON RED SHIRT
AND A WHITE
MINK TIE
SOME CRAZY
RIMMED GLASSES
THAT COVERED
ONE EYE
OL' POP'S
PEEPERS GREW
LARGE ROUND
AND WHITE
AS HE DUG THIS
CRAZY VISITOR
ON CHRISTMAS
EVE NIGHT
THE CAT LEAPED
FROM HIS SHORT
AND HE LAID DOWN
HIS SACK
HE BEGAN
WAILIN' LIKE MAD
THE COOL APPLE
JACK
THEN UP TO THE
ROOFTOPS THE
CADILLAC FLEW
AND THE CAT IN
RED FOLLOWED
ON THROUGH
POPS WAS
WIGGED BEHIND
THIS CRAZY SCENE
AND BEFORE HE
WAS STRAIGHT
DOWN CAME
THE CAT RIGHT
THROUGH THE
CHIMNEY GRATE
A BAG OF JIVE HE
HAD ON HIS BACK
AS HE STOOD
DIGGIN' POPS WHO
WAS BLOWIN'
HIS STACK
HIS EYEBALLS
WERE HID BY SOME
COLD BLACK
SHADES
WHEN POPS DUG
THIS ACTION HE
KNEW THIS CAT
WAS MADE
A KING SIZE
CIGARETTE HUNG
FROM HIS CHOPS
AS HE EASED
UP CLOSE AND
SOUNDED ON
POPS
I'M THE
BE-BOP SANTA
FROM THE COOL
NORTH POLE
AND I'VE BEEN
DOWN SINCE THE
DAYS OF OLD
I'M KNOWN ALL
OVER FROM HERE
TO ETERNITY
AND A STUD'S
MIGHTY SQUARE IF
HE DON'T DIG ME
SO CAST THY
PEEPERS INTO MY
RIGHTEOUS
BAG AND SEE
WHAT INSANE
OBJECT I SHALL
LAY ON THEE
HERE'S A RECORD
BY DIZZ CUT WHEN
HE WAS TWO
A REAL BOSS
ARRANGEMENT OF
OOH YEAH COOL
FOR MOMS A
MINK OUTFIT CHANEL
NUMBER FIVE
AND FOR YOU
LITTLE KIDDIES MY
NEW BOOK ON JIVE
SO THAT'S IT POPS
SANTA DID SHOUT
THEN HE BUTTONED
HIS CASHMERE AND
QUICKLY CUT OUT
POOR POPS
WAS WIGGIN' AND
HE WAS OUT OF
HIS HEAD
TO DIG THIS WILD
CHARACTER WHO
WORE ALL THE RED
HE RAN TO THE
TABLE TO COP
HIM A DRINK
TO QUIET
HIS NERVES AND
TO HELP HIM
TO THINK
JUST THEN FROM
BELOW HE HEARD
A VOICE SHOUT
HAVE A CRAZY
COOL CHRISTMAS
BUT DON'T GET
KNOCKED OUT