Once upon a time Santa Claus was busy helping build the wonderful toys, for all of the little girls and boys. With his big jolly laugh, And his long red scarf Hold on hold on.... Something is wrong, The elves aren't singing their happy song. Then the reindeer started to cry, And now they have started to fly up into the sky. They had had it with Saint Nick, He was making them feel sick They thought Santa had lost his way, By making them working 23 hours a day As far as they were concerned Santa was mean, Making them work like a machine By now Santa had figured out, What all of this fuss was about "Ahh you'll see, Try and bring happiness without me After all, the children sit on my knee, And tell me what they want underneath their Christmas tree And I see who is naughty and nice, And I even check it twice