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NASTY NOEL HENDERSON NYLROD Angels we have heard on high won't you sing us a nice Noel? with shepherds and Wise Men and holly and ivy and a partridge in a pear tree. 0 Tannenbaum, King of the Woods, evergreen leaves and candles ablaze life self-renewing, light returning. November's waning sun had warned our mortal souls to be afraid of cold, of gloomy drizzly dusk and stranded cars on slushy back roads . .. . Tell us spring will soon be here! Jolly old Saint Nicholas, turn your ear this way, tell us what you have for us on this happy day; Giver of good and perfect gifts, and of the duplicates to take back to the store joy of the merchants please give us some more. An atom-ray gun or a cowboy suit or a Baby-Jesus doll with a halo that really shines in the dark! But the angels didn't have a nice Noel to sing They sang about peace on earth and sent a bunch of dirty shepherds to see a refugee, a beggar baby in a barn .... No cradle? No bed? No, a manger, they said; No hospital? No clinic? No, a shed, they said; a smelly old stall where the cattle are fed; So the angels didn't have a nice sweet clean Baby Jesus. 2 And as for the Tree? The angels didn't have a pine tree either; No French hens, no lords a-leaping, no boars' heads a-flaming, His folks did scrape up two turtledoves but the priest took them And when Jesus got to the Tree it was bare only two branches and no evergreen needles; only nails. And what about Ole Nick? turned out he was The Other Side. Whenever the winter hits bottom -- =i and the back-to-school buying levels off, along comes Mammon with that red-nosed reindeer and retail sales go up thirty points. . ------ 3
Object Description
Title | Nasty Noel |
Rights | https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/ |
Institution | Mennonite Historical Library |
Original format |
text |
Language |
English |
Collection Name |
AMBS and GC John Howard Yoder Digital Library |
Date created | 1968-11 |
Subject |
Concern Christmas poetry -- Poetry |
Creator | Nylrod, Henderson |
Publisher |
Goshen College |
Description | A poem reflecting on the meaning of Christmas. Published in Concern, a Pamphlet Series, No. 16. |
Rights Explanation |
In public domain. |
Extent | 2 p. |
Digital format |
pdf |
Item ID | im-amdc-jhy-0101 |
Description
Title | Nasty Noel |
Institution | Mennonite Historical Library |
Original format |
text |
Language |
English |
Collection Name |
AMBS and GC John Howard Yoder Digital Library |
Date created | 1968-11 |
Subject |
Concern Christmas |
Creator | Nylrod, Henderson |
Publisher |
Goshen College |
Description | A poem reflecting on the meaning of Christmas. Published in Concern, a Pamphlet Series, No. 16. |
Rights Explanation |
In public domain. |
Extent | 2 p. |
Digital format |
pdf |
Item ID | im-amdc-jhy-0101 |
Text | NASTY NOEL HENDERSON NYLROD Angels we have heard on high won't you sing us a nice Noel? with shepherds and Wise Men and holly and ivy and a partridge in a pear tree. 0 Tannenbaum, King of the Woods, evergreen leaves and candles ablaze life self-renewing, light returning. November's waning sun had warned our mortal souls to be afraid of cold, of gloomy drizzly dusk and stranded cars on slushy back roads . .. . Tell us spring will soon be here! Jolly old Saint Nicholas, turn your ear this way, tell us what you have for us on this happy day; Giver of good and perfect gifts, and of the duplicates to take back to the store joy of the merchants please give us some more. An atom-ray gun or a cowboy suit or a Baby-Jesus doll with a halo that really shines in the dark! But the angels didn't have a nice Noel to sing They sang about peace on earth and sent a bunch of dirty shepherds to see a refugee, a beggar baby in a barn .... No cradle? No bed? No, a manger, they said; No hospital? No clinic? No, a shed, they said; a smelly old stall where the cattle are fed; So the angels didn't have a nice sweet clean Baby Jesus. 2 And as for the Tree? The angels didn't have a pine tree either; No French hens, no lords a-leaping, no boars' heads a-flaming, His folks did scrape up two turtledoves but the priest took them And when Jesus got to the Tree it was bare only two branches and no evergreen needles; only nails. And what about Ole Nick? turned out he was The Other Side. Whenever the winter hits bottom -- =i and the back-to-school buying levels off, along comes Mammon with that red-nosed reindeer and retail sales go up thirty points. . ------ 3 |