By: Neil Pharazyn

Neil Pharazyn — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 04:50:36 +0000

I decided that in the current financial situation what the world needs right now is a feel-good Xmas song.

I wrote this song [see the lyrics below] and made a YouTube video of it.

Could I ask if you would look at the video, and if you like it mention it in your blog.

Just below the song title there is a link to the video at YouTube. If that link doesn’t work you can see the video by visiting http://www.youtube.com and searching on thoroughly modern xmas . My video is listed with a small photo of the Wall St. street sign.

Regards and merry Xmas

Neil Pharazyn
manager@isc.co.nz

“A thoroughly modern Xmas: Santa vs. the financial meltdown ”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uorgH52_qE

Once upon a recent time, not so long ago,
in a world of make believe we all had lots of dough.
Then just last month the meltdown came and filled our hearts with fear,
But now that it is Xmas it’s time to raise some cheer.

Chorus: Sliding down the slippery slope, dashing through the snow.
Thrills and spills and mortgage bills, up again we go.
We’re not gonna worry, there’s more to life you know.
Credit squeeze can kiss my knees, up again we go.

Church bells ring out Xmas cheer.
Oh, be gone you Dow Jones bear.
Sub-prime debt was such a drag.
Here comes Santa with his bag.

Verse 2: We will have a Xmas just like days of old,
thinking of the poor folk out there in the cold.
The Lehmans and the Greenspans, friends from better days.
A dollar here, a dollar there, a parting of the ways.

Repeat chorus:

Church choirs sing good will to all,
Fannie Mae and Uncle Bill.
Recession is an ugly word,
chilling out is much preferred.

Verse 3: Firing up the furnace, drumsticks in our hand.
Take a break from mortgage woes, winter wonderland.
It’s good to have a low-debt home, with family by our side,
where we can tuck up nice and warm,
‘cos god it’s cold outside.

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