Posted 18:27 by Evan

The Passion of the Snowman

This is an old chestnut of mine that I usually perform in December, but Mel Gibson's latest action thriller has made it kind of topical, so what the heck.

Several years ago at a Christmas party, some friends and I got to discussing the fact that Christmas carols used to be these deeply spiritually significant hymns, then gradually became more and more secular, and the ones that have been written in the last fifty years--"Santa Claus is Comin' to Town" and "Up on the Housetop, Click Click Click" and so on--have no more depth than the average advertising jingle. I thought it that it was time someone wrote a Christmas song that recaptured the true meaning of the holiday while retaining the pop accessibility of the modern songs. This is how it came out. (Tune of "Frosty".)

Christ the messiah
Was the son of god they say
With a virgin mom and a perfect birth
In a manger full of hay

Christ the messiah
Was the king of all the Jews
When the Pharisees acted hard to please
He just showed what he could do

There must have been some magic in that silver grail he found
'Cause when he put in fish and bread...
There was enough to go around! (Yum!)

Christ the messiah
Was as holy as can be
All the poor folks said he could raise the dead
And he made a blind guy see

But Christ the messiah
Really made the Romans mad
So the local boss said to build a cross
And to put thorns on his head

Thumpity-thump-thump, thumpity-thump-thump
Watch him drag his cross!
Thumpity-thump-thump, thumpity-thump-thump
While all the kids throw rocks! (Ouch!)

Christ the messiah
Died for all our sins that day
But though his blood was shed, the disciples said...

He'll be back again someday!

See what I mean? It takes the story of Jesus and gives it a little excitement, a little pizzazz.

Pity I didn't think to offer it to Mel as the theme song for his movie. Woulda fit right in, after I added a verse about scourging.

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