Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer (reindeer)
Had a very shiny nose! (like a lightbulb)
And if you ever saw it (saw it)
You would even say it glowed (like a lightbulb)All of the other reindeer (reindeer)
Used to laugh and call him names (like Pinocchio)
They never let poor Rudolph (Rudolph)
Join in any reindeer games. (like Monopoly)Then one foggy Christmas Eve,
Santa came to say (ho, ho, ho)
Rudolph with your nose so bright,
Won’t you guide my sleigh tonight?Then all the reindeer loved him (loved him)
As they shouted out with glee (yippee!)
Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer (reindeer)
You’ll go down in history! (like George Washington).
That was the way we sang “Rudolph” during my elementary school days. Mrs. Johnson would halt her hands on the piano to warn we better not sing the silly echo—or else we’d be kicked out of the Christmas program. It happened every year.
She should have never tried to fight a force bigger than herself. The tradition rages on.
My kids sing that reindeer games are Candyland and that Rudolph will go down in history like John Elway. A local touch.
Did you sing the same echoing part? Did your music teacher flip out? My boys are in their school’s Christmas program tonight and have reported they’ve been warned not to “ha ha ha” during Jingle Bells either.
We sabg it just like you did.
What about “Jingle bells, Batman smells, Robin laid an egg”?
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No – but Joeldoes the “yipee” in school and says they are “supposed” to!
We sang the echoes too. However, our music teacher encouraged it and we did it during the music program.
We also got to do the ‘ha ha ha’ during Jingle Bells too.
You poor deprived Christmas musical singers. 🙂
we sang it just like that, but i don’t think any of us were brave enough to do it during actual class…
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We were encouraged to do the echo, too. Except we sang “you’ll go down in history – like Columbus!” How funny. Must be a regional thing!
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When I was in elementary school, we lived in a small town. We didn’t sing Rudolph or frosty or any such character. Believe it or not, we sang traditional carols about Jesus. Must have been in the enlightened age.
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We always sang it like that, but I can’t really remember what we sang at school. I only ever remember singing Jingle Bell Rock because I thought it was the coolest song ever. Like it was really rock and roll.
We echoed “like Columbus” too, Megan! We did sing the echo (and the “ha ha ha”). My elementary music teacher was a hippie, so I don’t think it bothered her in the least!
Reindeer games: football
Go down in History: Like Lincoln
Funny!
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We were football and Lincoln, too. Although sometimes we’d go uber-Liberal and the history would be MLK!
Not only did we sing the silly echo version, our music teacher taught us to do it that way! But our echo parts were a bit different.
We go down in history like Elvis but otherwise this is the way my kids sing it. I think the only thing we sang in school was Away in a Manger. Different times.
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We didn’t sing it in school officially, but we all did the echoes. But ours were so clever and original and funny. I bet yours were too.
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I am an elementary school music teacher, I know all the extra words, but I choose to let the kids sing them in class if they choose not to sing them on the concert!!! It works!!! Why fight the battle, you know it is going to happen!!! Besides, we all need a little fun in our day!!!