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You All Right There, Santa?
Based upon “Are Ye Right There Michael?” by Percy French (1902)
Now Phileas Fogg found it trying
His timing was terribly tight
But he never tried to go flying
Around the world all in one night
You load the sleigh up in the morning
The flight should be starting at eight
You’re there when the clock gives the warning
But there for an hour you will wait
And as you’re waiting in the rain
You’ll hear the lead reindeer exclaim:
“You all right there, Santa, you all right?
Do you think we’ll get it all done in the night?”
“Well we’ve been so long in starting
That I couldn’t say for certain
But we just might, Rudolph
We just might!”
They find out where Donners’ been hiding
And you make your way down to the gate
Says the guard: “Put the sleigh into hiding
The Polar Express is in late.”
Perhaps it’ll come in quite quickly
Or it might hit a snowman in flight
“If it does,” says the guard, “that’s quite prickly
We’ll be here for the rest of the…
