So you think you’ve heard them all
Every Christmas song
Every yuletide carol that has ever come along
That’s not quite true
We present one more to you
Mendel the Reindeer reported for work on the 24th night of December
Mendel had come all the way from New York, clutching an overnight letter
Saying Dasher was sick and a desperate St. Nick needed somebody healthy instead
But Santa didn’t hire Mendel, he took a reindeer named Fred
Mendel, Mendel, Mendel, Mendel, Mendel
Mendel, Mendel, Mendel, Mendel, Mendel
What do you know about Christmas anyway?
What do you know? Oy vey!
Mendel asked Santa Claus, “Why’d you reject me?
So blatantly, anti-Semitically?”
But Santa said, “Mendel, that’s simply not true
Just look around here, we’re all Jewish too”
You know Herschel and Harry and Larry and Tevya
Lenny and Izzy and Yankel and Edna
Jewish reindeer one and all, each one of them is
They just changed their Hebrew names to make it in showbiz
(“Even Rudolph?” “Well, he’s Hindu...”)
Mendel-le, Mendel-le, won’t you please believe
Who else would want to work for me every Christmas Eve
Mendel Mendel, would you be mollified
If I said you’re overqualified
Maybe you’d be better suited for a desk job
What do you say? Okay!
Mendel the reindeer reported for work
On the 26th day of December
Sorting complaints from the bad boys and girls
Who got socks instead of Nintender
And Dasher got well, and Fred went back to Jersey
To his job at the agnostic petting zoo
So what do we know about Christmas anyway
It’s Jews pulling the sleigh
Except for Rudolph, he’s from Bombay
And oh, by the way
The Easter bunny’s… got an alternate lifestyle
The FuMP
2021-11-30
Artist
Steve Goodie
Happy Hanukkah! Merry Christmas! Celebrate everything, whenever you can, that's what I say. And if you can combine the traditions and have some fun, that's even better!
Back in 1999 Jacob Kantor and I wrote this silly little thing about the world's only Jewish reindeer. And in 2020 Brad Tassell and I put it on "A Kvetchmas Carol: Christmas Meets Hanukkah," and then we made a video. And here it is, just in time for the holidays!
You can get "A Kvetchmas Carol: Christmas Meets Hanukkah" at www.stevegoodie.com... perfect for gift-giving!
Words and music: SG and Jacob Kantor
Guitars, bass, vocals, arrangement, production: SG
Vocal: Brad Tassell
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