Call me schmaltzy, but I've long thought the secular Christmas chestnut "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" has been crying out for a Catholic parody, so here it is. Not ha-ha parody, I mean, just imitative use.
Have yourself a Marian little Christmas:
Magnify the Lord.
Join His Mother and His saints in one accord.Have yourself a Marian little Christmas:
In her "Fiat" see
The model of perfection in humility.As we walk through this vale of pain,
Still our joy remains undimmed,
For She who bore the Holy Child,
Intercedes for us with Him.In your longing for a sweet reunion
Turn to God and pray,
Worship Mary's Baby nestled on the hay
And have yourself a Marian little Christmas Day.
In 2001 the original songwriter, Hugh Martin, a Seventh-Day Adventist, co-wrote new, Christian lyrics under the title "Have Yourself a Blessed Little Christmas." Sorry, Mr Martin, I couldn't find a way to keep a second internal rhyme in the third stanza.
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Update: Thanks, Curt Jester, and sorry, everyone, for the technical difficulties here. If you can't get the player to play just by clicking, try right-clicking to open the mp3 in a new tab.
Apologies for the sound quality. Christmas comes once a year, so I thought I really should strike while the iron was hot. In my defence, let me cite Chesterton: "If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly."
Meanwhile, for more than a decade I've been writing parody songs (and the occasional original one) about pharmaceutical research and other topics. So please spare a prayer for my dear wife, who--bless her--puts up with a lot when I feel a song coming on. She knew and she married me anyway!
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