TUNESMITH TUESDAY - "Sugar and Booze" by Ana Gasteyer

Sugar and Booze

There’s a ringin’ and a jinglin’

Folks are mixin and a minglin’

Twinkling lights and tinsel on the tree

How I love to keep the Yultide gay

Call me corny or cliché

But there’s a reason that the season

Brings so much joy to me

I love snowmen, and turtle doves in twos

Holly, ivy, mistletoe can take away my blues

Kris Kringle and his reindeer friends

They endlessly amuse

Because the best part of the holidays

Is sugar and booze

I love mittens, and skating on the ice

But I glide right through December

Mixing naughty with that nice

So pour a nip into that nog

And let it light your fuse

Because the best part of the holidays

Is sugar and booze

Wake up baby

Don’t you hit the snooze

Just forget the 

Headlines and the news

Pop the cork

Put on your dancin’ shoes

Give me honey and hootch

And I’ll give you a smooch

Let’s give those devils their due

I like cider

But keep it spiked with Rum

What good’s a little drummer boy

With no pa-rum-pa-pum-pum?

Come New Year’s Day

We’ll all resolve

Those extra pounds to lose

But now’s the time we let it rip with

Sugar and booze

Once a year we

All deserve some fun

Life is short so

Why live like a nun?

Grab a fork there’s

Damage to be done

King Wenceslas

Hit the sweet some sauce

Give me gin and cinnamon buns

I like cider

But keep it spiked with Rum

What good’s a little drummer boy

With no pa-rum-pa-pum-pum?

Come New Year’s Day

We’ll all resolve

Those extra pounds to lose

You can keep that tray

Of crudité

Honey I refuse

Martinis at lunch

Pastries and punch

It’s an annual excuse

We’ll have Hendrick’s for the Gentiles

Manischewitz for the Jews

Because the best part of the holidays

Is sugar and booze

Oh yeah