Twas the blight before christmas And all through the dawn The scene was quiet except pop and mom There sat hung in their big easy chair Goofed on egg nog sherry and beer Ces and lil jr, lie there in the bed Whle visions of cadillacs jumped in their head Moms jumped up and said pops lets quit it to bed Then out on the stoop oweee such a clatter Pops fled to the porthole to see what was the matter He did a jump and fell back