Up On The Housetop

[KRUG]

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"Up On The Housetop" is a seasonal song from the USA dating from 1864. Recorded by many the Gene Autrey version is the best known. Wickipedia says :
According to William Studwell in The Christmas Carol Reader, "Up on the House Top" was the second-oldest secular Christmas song, outdone only by "Jingle Bells", which was written in 1857 (although the latter was originally intended as a Thanksgiving song). It is also considered the first Yuletide song to focus primarily on Santa Claus. According to Readers Digest Merry Christmas Song Book, Hanby probably owes the idea that Santa and his sleigh land on the roof of homes to Clement C. Moore's 1822 poem, "A Visit from St. Nicholas" (also commonly known as "The Night Before Christmas").
Up on the housetop reindeer pause,
Out jumps Good Old Santa Claus
Down through the chimney with lots of toys
All for the little good girls and boys
Ho, ho ho! Who wouldn't go? Ho, ho ho! Who wouldn't go?
Up on the housetop, click, click, click
Down through the chimney with good Saint Nick
First comes the stocking of little Nell
Oh, dear Santa fill it well
Give her a dolly that laughs and cries
One that will open and shut it's eyes
Ho, ho, ho! Who wouldn't go? Oh, ho, ho! Who wouldn't go?
Up on the housetop, click, click, click
Down through the chimney with good Saint Nick
Next comes the stocking of little Will
Oh, just see what a glorious fill
Here is a hammer and lots of tacks
A whistle and a ball and a whip that cracks
Ho, ho ho! Who wouldn't go? Oh, ho, ho! Who wouldn't go?
Up on the housetop, click, click, click
Down through the chimney with good Saint Nick

[Jon D]

Hi there Keith,
This is another one I don't know but did not stop me enjoying my morning listen well done my good friend.


Jon D.

[Brian007]

Hi Keith,

A very jolly little number that, with some good choices of voices and played really well, I enjoyed that.

Brian007

[JohnT]

Hi Keith. You are certainly finding different tunes. A catchy little number and some nice pleasant sounds. John

[KRUG]

Thanks to Jon, John and Brian for their comments. The strange thing is, of course, that these songs we do not know are in most of the Christmas books.

Keith