A Holiday Song?

A HOLIDAY SONG?

(by Mark Travis Riggs, with apologies to Rodgers & Hammerstein)

Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens,

Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens.

But for the mittens (used all winter long)

Why is this even a holiday song?

Cream colored ponies and crisp apple strudels,

Doorbells and sleigh bells and schnitzel with noodles,

Brown paper packages (brown paper: wrong)...

Why is this even a holiday song?

Girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes,

Snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes,

Sleigh bells and snowflakes--okay, they belong,

But this still isn’t a holiday song.

Not to cause fights—I’m just seeing
If you think it’s bad.

When I hear this song at some holiday thing,

It makes me confused and mad.

Frost-painted windows, small sleigh bells on kittens,

Bright shiny ornaments, warm woolen mittens,

Tall evergreens covered in lights that blink:

This sounds like a Christmas song, don’t you think?

Crisp sugar cookies and butter cream icing,

Chocolate and mint smells you find so enticing,

Plate of those cookies with milk by the fire:

A Christmas song worthy of any choir.

Girls in green dresses with red velvet sashes,

Boot prints on floors, made from fireplace ashes,

Silver white wintertime Christmas Eve snow:

This is a song for a Christmastime show.

Sleigh bells, snowflakes, shoddy wrappings,

They just seem a tad

Ridiculous next to non-holiday things,

But this version makes me glad.