Name: Please Mr. Santa
Duration: P00H04M39S
Description: Ellia Bisker also writes and performs as Sweet Soubrette. She's one half of macabre musicial duo Charming Disaster and the front person of the Funkrust Brass Band. Find out more about her and all her music at elliabisker.com.

Ellia Bisker - Please Mr. Santa

from THE SANTA CLAUS MAN by Alex Palmer by The Bushwick Book Club

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Ellia Bisker also writes and performs as Sweet Soubrette. She's one half of macabre musicial duo Charming Disaster and the front person of the Funkrust Brass Band. Find out more about her and all her music at elliabisker.com.

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Please Mr. Santa

On the first Christmas night, two thousand years ago
Three wise men in robes of crimson silk
Rode silently from the east to the west
Each carried on his saddle-bow a finely wrought casket

Please, Mr. Santa, will you send me a glass eye?
Mine is broke and I can’t see the sky
Reach into your sack and pull out the life I
Always wanted

We all were the victims of old St. Toogood
Who talked so loud he broke all the dishes
Saved sailors from famine, and children from pirates
Society ladies from Boy Scouts with rifles

The gold-rimmed spectacled professors
And crooked solicitors down in the rathskeller
A poor boy gets nothing but dunder and blixem
A German opera sung in Italian

The pulp of five thousand letters
Went into the bust we petition for presents
Post office idol or jolly old elf or
A sculpture in honor of commerce and sentiment

If trouble breaks out it will come from the poor
Through the plate-glass windows where the rich enjoy
All their baubles and sweets from extravagant shops
It makes a hell of longing for all the have-nots

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from THE SANTA CLAUS MAN by Alex Palmer, released December 31, 2019

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The Bushwick Book Club Brooklyn, New York

We started in January 2009 playing songs written in response to Kurt Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions. We haven't stopped since. We've written & performed songs inspired by everything from "On The Origin of Species" to Dr. Seuss to Raymond Carver. There are BBCs popping up nationwide now. Bushwick Book Club Seattle started in 2010 & is run by Geoff Larson. Our nerdy dare-devilry knows no bounds. ... more

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