Not the Fruitcake!!

Just for fun, a musical Christmas offering: Christmas Dinner (No, Not the Fruitcake!).  My aunt is a children's choir director and songwriter extraordinaire.  She wrote this song for one of her Christmas pageants a few years back, and it's always cracks me up.  Warning, this song can get into your brain and refuse to go away. You'll find yourself singing it in the shower. 

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CHRISTMAS DINNER
By Janet Allyn
Copyright Spirit Song Prod 2001

1)  Mother makes a lovely Christmas dinner ev'ry year.
     Turkey, dressing, rolls and salad, ev'rything is here.
     Cookies, pies and special puddings I will eat it all.
     But when she sets this one thing on the table, you will hear me call:

Chorus:
"No, not the fruitcake!"  "No, not the fruitcake!"   "No, not the fruitcake!" 
"No, not the fruitcake!"  "No, not the fruitcake!"  "No, not the fruitcake!"
"No, not the fruitcake evermore!"

2)  I don't mean to be ungrateful, mother works so hard.
    Yet this fruit cake looks like something found out in our yard.
    Little bits of this and that all mashed in to a pile:
    Oily, brown - all squishy, flat and round.  It's really awfully vile!

Chorus:
"No, not the fruitcake!"  "No, not the fruitcake!"   "No, not the fruitcake!" 
"No, not the fruitcake!"  "No, not the fruitcake!"  "No, not the fruitcake!"
"No, not the fruitcake evermore!"

Part 1
We like cookies.  We like cookies.  (Sing 6 times)

Part 2
Give us lots of turkey.   Give us lots of turkey.  (sing 5 times)

Part 3
Love that dressing.  Love that dressing.  (sing 4 times)

Part 4
No more fruit cake, no more fruit cake!  (sing 3 times)

Comments

[David]

Fun song. Thanks!

[keewee]

That chorus sure does get stuck in your head, it is a fun song.
Just for the record I LIKE fruitcake, but, the one I like is a different recipe from the American recipes, it is one my Mother used to always make back in good old Kiwi Land.
Christine, have a Very Happy Christmas and Wonderful New Year.