S-A-N-T-A Song for Children and Holiday Thoughts of Christmas Carols

 

S-A-N-T-A Song for Children

 

and Holiday  Thoughts of Christmas Carols

 

by Alice Jane-Marie Massa

 

 

With my youngest great-nephew in mind and as a little gift for my sister to sing with her four-year-old and five-year-old students, I wrote the following holiday lyrics for children.  You can sing the lines to the tune of the “march” portion of a well-known song of a forever-famous rodent’s club.  The children do like the “Ho, ho, ho!” chorus.  The song begins with the spelling of the name of the most widely-known resident of the North Pole.  So, learning the “S-A-N-T-A Song” will help the little ones with spelling also.

 

Christmas is such a merry, magical, and special time for children!  Singing, dancing, and marching to this holiday song may be fun for the little ones with whom you share Christmas.

 

S-A-N-T-A Song

 

(With Christmas Cheer,

this song is dedicated to Caden, Lanie, Harper, Emmy, Tyson, Trey,

and all who happily sing these words)

 

 

S-A-N

 

T-A–C

 

L-A-U-S–

 

whee-e-e!

 

Santa Claus!  Ho, ho, ho!

 

Santa Claus!  Ho, ho, ho!

 

Forever let us sing of Santa Claus!

 

Ho, ho, ho!

 

Come along, and ride our sleigh.

 

Enjoy the company.

 

Merry Christmas!

 

Merry Christmas Day

 

to you and me!

 

 

Holiday Thoughts of Christmas Carols

 

During the 1950s and even a little into the 1960s, the Blanford, Indiana, chapter of the Royal Neighbor Juveniles, a youth organization of Royal Neighbors of America, met regularly in Perona’s Hall, a dance hall above the grocery store.  The stairway to Perona’s Hall was a back and side entrance of the brick building.  To enter the dance hall/meeting room, one had to ascend a very steep set of about forty stairs.  Despite the daunting task of climbing these stairs, I always enjoyed going to Perona’s Hall for a variety of events in my hometown.

 

Each December, the Royal Neighbor Juveniles of my small, rural town celebrated the holiday season with a Christmas party.  I distinctly recall one year when the Step sisters, Joyce and Janie, were leading a sing-along of Christmas carols and holiday songs.  For a number of years, the national headquarters of Royal Neighbors of America (RNA) sent to both the women’s group and the youth group very nice booklets filled with Christmas carols.  Each songbook measured approximately six-by-six inches and had a festive color cover picturing carolers.  The inside pages included music and lyrics for about twenty or more carols and holiday songs.

 

Joyce and her sister Janie stood near the old upright piano, on the small stage at the southwest corner of the expansive hall while the Royal Neighbor Juveniles with their parents and guests stood around the hall’s perimeters which were lined with movie-theatre type seats.  In the dimly lit room, we held our booklets and sang along.  After Joyce led the group with the singing of several less familiar carols and songs, my dad, very uncharacteristically, interrupted and said, “Let’s sing one we all know–‘Silent Night.'”  I could hardly believe that my dad stopped the show to suggest “Silent Night”–which was then and would remain his favorite carol.  Joyce agreed, and we all sang “Silent Night”–three verses.  Standing beside my father, on the east side of the hall, beside one of the windows, I was, as ever, proud of my dad and loved hearing his beautiful baritone voice singing his favorite carol.

 

Although this rendition of “Silent Night” occurred before my days of audio-recording events, I do still have a recording of my dad singing “Silent Night” and other Christmas carols and holiday songs at a Christmas party of the Sight-loss Support Group of the Wabash Valley (which met during the 1980s and later in the Vigo County Public Library, in Terre Haute).  I treasure this recording that allows me to hear my dad’s singing of “Silent Night” again each holiday season.

 

For decades, my dad called me almost each day at five o’clock in the evening.  Whether we talked for a few minutes or for an hour, I was always glad and grateful to hear his voice when I was living in another city or another state–away from my beloved Indiana home.  Thus, I often think of my dad around five o’clock.

 

This year, I purchased another Christmas clock which plays a different carol at each hour.  However, I cannot understand why the manufacturer placed the couple of measures of “On the FIRST day of Christmas, my true love gave to me a partridge in a pear tree” at six o’clock–not one o’clock.  Further, I truly cannot understand why the clock plays “We THREE Kings” at eight o’clock, instead of at three o’clock.  On the other hand, I thoroughly understand, greatly appreciate, and am immensely grateful that my new Christmas clock touches my heart each day by most appropriately playing at five o’clock “Silent Night.”

 

In the comment section, please share your favorite Christmas carol and/or holiday song.

 

Enjoy singing the carols of Christmas!

Wishing you and yours a most peaceful, blessed, and Merry Christmas,

Alice and Leader Dog Willow

 

December 20, 2017, Wednesday

 

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