HEY!

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2675, 22 December 1923, Page 4

HEY!

Did you see Daddy Christmas, Sneaking, creeping by, Or scooting in an aeroplane Right across the sky? Did you hear a slipping, scratching, On the chimneys and the roofs, Of Santa Claus’s reindeers, And - their slipping, scratching hoofs?

Did you hear Daddy Christmas In the middle of the night, When everyone was sleeping And the stars were shining bright? With lovely toys and dollies And a trumpet and a drum, And stockings full of lollies, Did Daddy Christmas come?

Did you hear Daddy Christmas While the flower-faries sang In dear and dreamy music Of all the things he brang, Do you think Daddy Christmas Came in a motor car Or tumbled in a parachute Down from the brightest star?

Did you hear Daddy Christmas, Before the day was born, Come swooping down with lots of toys To brighten Christmas morn? Were little eyes wide open, Before the break of day, To see old Daddy Christmas come And stop and rush away?

Did you hear Daddy Christmas, Before the sky was blue, Come floppity-stop at your chimney top And leave a gift for you? Did you know-Daddy Christmas, When Christmas bush was red, Slipped, in the gloom, about your room, And hung things on your bed?

The same old Daddy Christmas, When Grandmamma was young, Upon the railing of her bed His Christmas presents hung; And, because old Daddy Christmas Has nothing else to do, The thing he did for Granny once He comes and does for you.

Did you hear Daddy Christmas His old, old promise keep To every little, bonnie child? Or were you fast asleep? Your boxes, books and bailies, And every toy and game, Were there at dawn to tell you That Daddy Christmas came.

Did you hear Daddy Christmas? How quick he had to run And race across the waking world, The Christmas morning sun, And, when the hurry sun peeped in Through every window-blind It only saw the lots of things That he had left behind.