Hark! the High Street Angels sing:
Buy it now – don’t pay till Spring!
No peace on earth and purses wild:
You must get this for your child
Joyful all ye nations rise
Buy cranberry and mince pies
With angelic voice proclaim
10% off every game.
Hark the High Street Angels sing:
Two for one on everything!
Try our Heaven-born new settees
We have twelve month guarantees
Hail this ton of bright excess
Buy on credit – send express!
Light and life to all you'll bring
Try it free – there are no strings,
Awful things that cost the earth -
Get yourselves a dollar’s worth.
We're all broke, but still we buy
(Terms and conditions apply)
Hark the High Street Angels sing:
Two for one on everything!
Did you know that the first line as Wesley wrote it was actually 'Hark how all the welkin rings?'.
ReplyDeleteGeorge Whitfield sugested the change. I don't suppose many people know what the welkin is these days.
Nice poem btw.
I love you.
ReplyDeleteDave. As opposed to our familiarity with Herald Angels.
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ReplyDeleteI posted a similar "holiday" sentiment on Facebook last Wednesday (December 14th ) when I quoted Stan Freberg:
ReplyDelete“Deck the halls with advertising,
Fa la la la la, la la la la.
‘Tis the time for merchandising,
Fa la la la la, la la la la.
Profit never needs a reason,
Fa la la la la la la la la.
Get the money, it’s the season,
Fa la la la la la, la la la.”
Now what I hope, is that neither "your take" on a Christmas hymn or Stan Freberg's take on a holiday song doesn't give me a case of ohrwurms!
Surely, you remember my tale of ohrwurms, Clare? (HINT: It was on TLLG where you commented.)
P.S. I made a typo in the previous comment that I deleted so I am trying again! I need more coffee . . .
Brilliant poem/carol! Loved it.
ReplyDeleteOh yes, the mad side of the festive season. Hordes of people buying things they don't need, with money they don't have.
ReplyDeleteDave - I've no idea what a welkin is - some kind of crustacean? It would have been right up there with 'We Wish You a Calimari Christmas'
ReplyDeleteVicus - Yes, dear, but you are mad in the head!
LLG - Ah, my leafy friend, I haven't forgotten the ohrwurms... I'm just waiting for my moment. But I've had 'em all week!
Frances - Ta!
Martin - ... for people they can't stand! ;-)
See if you can find a dictionary in that there library of yours.
ReplyDeleteOtherwise, think of the spacious firmament on high, with all the blue ethereal sky, and spangled heavens, a shining frame.
Dave - Sounds lovely! I hear there's a Welkin in the Hillsides?
ReplyDeleteLovely....and (sadly) so true!
ReplyDeleteI love the idea of the Two for One angels. And maybe BOGOF angels?
ReplyDelete"No peace on earth and purses wild" You got that right--a perfect poem-song for the season!
ReplyDeleteThe record breaking pre-Christmas BOGOF in our local supermarket was loo paper .
ReplyDeleteWe , in Friesland , do understated properly. Not like those over-excited Danes .