Christmasduet sterry ccs
A Christmas Duet by Joseph Ashby-Sturry Read for LibriVox.org by Claudia Salto Oh, Christmas comes but once a year! And even that is once too many! Hooray for all its right good cheer!
I wish I had my share of any! What flavour of the good old times! What hopeless and egregious folly! What evergreens and merry chimes! What prickles ever lurk in holly!
Indeed, it is a merry time! But oh, those countless Christmas numbers! For now we see the pantomime! And now the weights disturb our slumbers! With kisses neath the mistletoe!
I hate such rough, unseemly capers! And hearty welcomes frost and snow! Yes, in the illustrated papers! Around the groaning Christmas board! Which never equals expectations!
Where old and young are in accord! I hate the most of my relations! I view the turkey with delight! A tough old bird beyond all question! The blazing pudding, what a sight!
Tis concentrated indigestion! Laugh on, ye merry girls and boys! Each year the Christmas boxes strengthen! With it countless joys! The Christmas bells each year they lengthen!
To all we pledged the brimming glass! What days of gorging and unreason! Too quick such merry moments pass! Why can't we skip the festive season? Thanks for watching!
