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Christmas Carols · No. 17 · Words: Benjamin Hanby
Up on the Housetop
Create PowerPoint slides from this hymn →"Up on the Housetop" is one of the earliest American secular Christmas songs, written by Benjamin Hanby around 1864. It depicts Santa Claus delivering gifts down the chimney and is beloved as a children's Christmas carol.
Verse 1
Up on the housetop reindeer pause
Out jumps Good Old Santa Claus
Down through the chimney with lots of toys
For all the little good girls and boys
Chorus
Ho, ho ho! Who wouldn't go?
Ho, ho ho! Who wouldn't go?
Up on the housetop, click, click, click
Down through the chimney with good Saint Nick
Verse 2
First comes the stocking of little Nell
Oh, dear Santa fill it well
Give her a dolly that laughs and cries
One that will open and shut its eyes
Verse 3
Next comes the stocking of little Will
Oh, just see what a glorious fill
Here is a hammer and lots of tacks
A whistle and a ball and a whip that cracks
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