A Christmas Insurrection

: ADDITIONAL PIECES

ANNE P.L. FIELD



In the hush of a shivery Christmas-tide dawn

Sing hey! sing ho! heigho!

Three small frozen figures hung stiff and forlorn

Sing hey! sing ho! heigho!

Three dim ghostly forms in the glimmering gray

Locked up in dark cold storage quarters were they

Awaiting the coming of glad Christmas day

Sing hey! sing ho! heigho!

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Suspended each one from a hickory twig

Sing hey! sing ho! heigho!

A turkey, a goose, and a little fat pig

Sing hey! sing ho! heigho!

With chestnuts the turkey was garnished and stuffed

With onions and sage was the goose-carcass puffed,

While piggy was spiced, and his neck was beruffed

Sing hey! sing ho! heigho!



Three spirits regretful were hovering near

Sing hey! sing ho! heigho!

Look! gobbled the turkey's, what tragedy's here!

Sing hey! sing ho! heigho!

For this did they tempt me with fattening food,

For this did I bring up my beautiful brood,

I always thought farmers uncommonly rude!

Sing hey! sing ho! heigho!



The goose spirit trembled, then hissingly said

Sing hey! sing ho! heigho!

Most men care for nothing except to be fed!

Sing hey! sing ho! heigho!

What horror is this, filled with onions and sage

To be served on a platter at my tender age!

'Tis enough any well-disposed fowl to enrage!

Sing hey! sing ho! heigho!



The phantom pig grunted, Do please look at that!

Sing hey! sing ho! heigho!

Oh! why did I grow up so rosy and fat!

Sing hey! sing ho! heigho!

They put in my mouth a sweet, juicy corncob

Just when of sensations my palate they rob,

Do you wonder such sights make a spirit-pig sob!

Sing hey! sing ho! heigho!



Conferring, the spirits resolved on a plan

Sing hey! sing ho! heigho!

By which to wreak vengeance on merciless man

Sing hey! sing ho! heigho!

We'll each disagree with the human inside,

We'll cause indigestion and damage his pride,

And the pains of this Christmas we'll spread far and wide!

Sing hey! sing ho! heigho!



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