Monday, December 25, 2023


WALL OF VOODOO
"Shouldn't Have Given Him a Gun for Christmas"
(aka "A MAGAt's Christmas")

There's been snow covered Christmases
And ones just of rain
Of smoked hams and warm bread
And shiny toy trains

And though they've always been different
They've all been the best
Yet there's one I remember
More tenderly than all the rest

It all began with Uncle Jack
He made a crack and wouldn't take it back
Dad was drinking, he got sore

There was a flash, and a crash
It took the manger on the floor

Shouldn't have given him a gun for Christmas
Shouldn't have given him a gun, gun, gun
Shouldn't have given him a gun for Christmas
Look what Daddy has done, done, done!

He put two slugs into the neighbor's door
And kicked upon a raging scene
The plastic baby Jesus he blew to smithereens

I can't think about the nine year old
Who only seems ten
And how he went on cavelling to the doors of now dead man, oh

Shouldn't have given him a gun for Christmas
Shouldn't have given him a gun, gun, gun
Shouldn't have given him a gun for Christmas
Look what Daddy has done, done, done!

O Tannenbaum, o Tannenbaum
Wie treu sind deine Biätter!

Du grünst nicht nur zur Sommerzeit
Nein, auch im Winter, wenn es schneit

O Tannenbaum, o Tannenbaum
Wie treu sind deine Biätter!
Of course I could have been pizzas and all that but-

Oooo, yeah!

Shouldn't have given him a gun for Christmas
Shouldn't have given him a gun, gun, gun
Shouldn't have given him a gun for Christmas
Look what Daddy has done, done, done!

Music and Lyrics by Andy Prieboy and Marc Moreland

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