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A TALL GRASS PRAIRIE CHRISTMAS
Old Santa could
drive any team.
He was better than the
best.
But that blizzard ragin'down below
Was puttin him
to the test.
You see, snow
wasn't exactly fallin'
It was blowin' from left to
right.
The wind was whirlin' and swirlin'
On this most
special night.
Out here on the
prairie
Winter can come and go.
This time it came with a
vengence,
We was darn near buried in snow.
Santa was
circlin' and circlin',
Goin' round and round and
round,
Lookin' for the slightest chance
To get his
team of reindeer down.
Cause, pardner,
it was Christmas eve.
There was a town down there
below
And Santa ain't the kind of guy
To be stopped
by a few feet of snow.
He thought he
just might be able
To sweep on down
closeby.
So he swung his sleighin a sweeping
turn
And headed down for a try.
That sleigh
bucked and rocked somethin' awful
Santa reined his team to
the right
And they fought and fought and
struggled
To break through that blowing white.
It turned out
they couldn't make it down
And they had to turn
away.
But old Santa heard something down
below
And knew he didn't need to stay.
It would'a been
nice tohave made it down.
But it all had clearly
worked out.
Those folks down there in
that town below
Knew what Christmas was all
about.
You see what
Santa heard in that blizzard
Let him know that all would
be right,
For he heard those folksa'
singin'-----
"Silent night -----
Holynight!
All is calm ------ All is bright!"
And old Santa
proclaimed as he rose out of sight,
"Merry Christmas To All On
This Most Holy Night!"
Unpublished Work, Copyright1997, James H.
John
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