Ol' Papa Santa

What’s the cool action in the Ol’ North Pole?
Santa Claus is swingin’ like the Jellyroll
Playin’ tunes as tasty as an apple or banana
Ol’ Papa Santa on his Red ‘n’ Green Pianah!

His boots of shiny leather stomp the pedals down
His pom-pom swings a circle going round and round
From an icy arctic igloo or a tropical cabana
Ol’ Papa Santa on his Red ‘n’ Green Pianah!

When Santa Claus starts to play
At the Silverbell Holly Dance
Not a single elf can fill his shoes
And it takes about fifty just to fill his pants!

The reindeer cut a rug (Boogie Woogie!)
They hoof it out on the floor (Jumpin’ and Jivin’!)
And Missus Claus has Papa’s paws
To twirl her up and down and in and out the door!
She bakes a batch of cookies, then comes back for more!

Mmm-Mmm-Mmm!

The angels are a-singin’ right on key
Who’s the famous fatty they accompany?
With a jolly halleluiah and a ho-ho-hosanna
Ol’ Papa Santa on his Red ‘n’ Green Pianah!

When Ol’ Papa wakes up on the 26th
He fights off any sadness with a surefire fix
It doesn’t take a big vacation or a pricey party plannah
Just Ol’ Papa Santa on his Red ‘n’ Green Pianah!

When Santa Claus starts to play (Go, go, Kringle!)
At the Silverbell Holly Hop (Jingle Jingle!)
If Prancer isn’t prancing to the beat of the band
Then Rudolph does a tap dance on the chimney top
And Santa’s solo is so hot, the chestnuts pop!
Pop! Pop! P-Pop! Pop! Pop!

When what to my wondering eyes should appear
But a lindy hop swing with all eight reindeer
Now Dasher, Now Dancer!
Now Prancer and Vixen!
On Comet, On Cupid!
On Donner, and Blitzen!

The bandstand never looked bettah
With a twenty foot tall poinsettia
A gingerbread man on the “ghee-tar” strums
Better shut your eyes, look out for flyin’ crumbs.
And Missus Claus is shakin’ her sugar plums!
And the drummer boy is drummin’ his rummy tum-tums!

News traveled South about the show
Guess who’s playin’ now on the radio!
From Hackensack in Jersey out to Washington’s Tacoma
Cali’s Sausalito to Tulsa, Oklahoma
Helena, Montana down to N’Awlins, Leeziana
It’s Ol’ Papa Santa on his Red ‘n’ Green Pianah!
Ol’ Papa Santa on his Red ‘n’ Green Pianah!
Ol’ Papa Santa on his Red ‘n’ Green Pianah!
Ol’ Papa Santa!
Ol’ Papa Santa!
Ol’ Papa Santa on his Red ‘n’ Green Pianah!

That man Santa, he’s got it goin’ on!
Ho Ho Ho!