{"id":6722,"date":"2013-12-24T12:13:59","date_gmt":"2013-12-24T17:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/?p=6722"},"modified":"2022-08-01T07:43:10","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T11:43:10","slug":"christmas-i-dont-carols","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2013\/12\/christmas-i-dont-carols\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Charley Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, this is Charley again.\u00a0 Maybe you remember me.\u00a0 The de-ranged cattle baron that runs this blog sometimes asks me to take over during the holidays.\u00a0 &#8220;Have fun,&#8221; he says.\u00a0 Awesome, man.\u00a0 It&#8217;s as much fun as building a mud fence, sitting in this cubicle trying to come up with Christmas-time entertainment for the three or four coffee-boilers who read this blog.\u00a0 Sorry if my enthusiasm is making your acid reflux flare up.\u00a0 Eat a peach.<\/p>\n<p>So here we go.\u00a0 I thought I would share some of the Christmas songs I sing on the range as I wait for an increase in the cowboy minimum wage.\u00a0 I call them I Don&#8217;t Carols.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Silver Hell<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Silver Bells, Silver Bells<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s Christmas time in the city<br \/>\nRing-a-ling, hear them ring.<br \/>\nSoon they will be drowned out by street preachers with bullhorns.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jingle Hell<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells<br \/>\nJingle all the way<br \/>\nOh, what fun it is<br \/>\nNo, it&#8217;s not, it&#8217;s really cold out and it sucks.<br \/>\nHey hey hey hey hey.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rudolph the Brown-Nose Reindeer<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer had a very shiny nose<br \/>\nAnd if you ever saw it, you would even say it glows<br \/>\nAll of the other reindeer used to laugh and call him names<br \/>\nThey never let poor Rudolph join in any reindeer games.<br \/>\nThen one foggy Christmas Eve, Santa came to say:<br \/>\n&#8220;Rudolph, with your nose so bright, won&#8217;t you guide my sleigh tonight?&#8221;<br \/>\nThen how the reindeer stomped their hooves and shouted, &#8220;Santa&#8217;s favorite, eh?&#8221;<br \/>\nRudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer wouldn&#8217;t live to see another day.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Frosty the Snowman<\/strong><em><strong> <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Frosty the Snowman was a hoppy amped-up soul<br \/>\nWith an old crack pipe, a stuffy nose and two lines made out of blow<br \/>\nDown to the village, with some crystal in his hands<br \/>\nRunning here and there, all around the square,<br \/>\nSaying, &#8220;Man, these bugs are crawling all over me!&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Little Gunner Boy<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Hear my guns speak loud<br \/>\nRat-tat-a-tat-tat<br \/>\nSecond Amendment proud<br \/>\nRat-tat-a-tat-tat<br \/>\nMy guns defend this land<br \/>\nRat-tat-a-tat-tat<br \/>\nNot from my cold, dead hand<br \/>\nRat-tat-a-tat-tat<br \/>\nTat-a-tat-tat<br \/>\nTat-a-tat-tat<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Now your Christmas can be just like mine.\u00a0 Until next time &#8211; Charley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, this is Charley again.\u00a0 Maybe you remember me.\u00a0 The de-ranged cattle baron that runs this blog sometimes asks me to take over during the holidays.\u00a0 &#8220;Have fun,&#8221; he says.\u00a0 Awesome, man.\u00a0 It&#8217;s as much fun as building a mud &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2013\/12\/christmas-i-dont-carols\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6722"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13161,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6722\/revisions\/13161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}