Snoopy's Christmas
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Snoopy's Christmas is a song performed by The Royal Guardsmen in 1967. It continues to be played as a holiday favorite on most "oldie" radio stations.
[edit] Overview
The song was written about how Snoopy had to go out and fight the Red Baron on Christmas Eve and the two enemies set aside their differences for that night. At the end, they share a holiday toast and then Snoopy and the Red Baron fly their separate ways, "knowing they'd meet some other day". This song is a popular Christmas song and certain radio stations play it during the Christmas season.
[edit] Lyrics
- The news had come out in the First World War,
- The bloody Red Baron was flying once more,
- The Allied Command ignored all of it's men,
- And called on Snoopy to do it again.
- 'Twas the night before Christmas and forty below,
- When Snoopy went out in search of his foe,
- He spotted the Red Baron and fiercely they fought
- With ice on his wings, Snoopy knew he was caught.
- Christmas bells those Christmas bells
- Ring out from the land
- Asking peace of all the world
- And good will to man
- The Baron had Snoopy dead in his sights
- He reached for the trigger to pull it up tight
- Why he didn't shoot, well, we'll never know
- Or was it the bells from the village below
- {Refrain}
- Christmas bells those Christmas bells
- Ringing through the land
- "Bringing peace to all the world
- And good will to man
- The Baron made Snoopy fly to the Rhine
- And forced him to land behind the enemy lines
- Snoopy was certain that this was the end
- When the Baron cried out "Merry Christmas, mein friend!"
- The Baron then offered a holiday toast
- And Snoopy our hero saluted his host
- And then with a roar they were both on their way
- Each knowing they'd meet on some other day
- Repeat refrain twice
