The holiday poem 'A Visit from St. Nicholas,' better known as 'The Night Before Christmas,' has delighted children and adults alike for years—and so have some very funny parodies. These comedic riffs on the Christmas classic will have you laughing like Santa Claus.
Twas the night before christmas by clement clarke moore free download - Twas The Night Before Christmas, Twas The Night Before Christmas!, Twas the Night Before Christmas for Windows 10, and many. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by Project Gutenberg. The classic poem, 'Twas the Night Before Christmas' is given in full text. You can print the poem to share in your classroom, to hand out for students to take home, and to use for class discussion.
Background
The original version of 'A Visit from St. Nicholas' was published in 1823 in a Troy, New York, newspaper. When it first appeared two days before Christmas, it was unattributed. In the coming years, as the poem's popularity grew, several writers would claim to be its author, including Clement Clarke Moore, a classics professor, writer, and friend of author Washington Irving.
Moore published his own version of the poem, said to have been inspired by a Christmas shopping trip years earlier, in 1844. He also would occasionally give autographed versions of the poem to friends. In recent years, some scholars have contended that an acquaintance of Moore's, Henry Livingston, Jr., is the true author, but these claims, based on textual analysis of both men's writing, has been controversial.
Parody Versions
Nearly everyone can recite the opening lines of 'A Visit From St. Nicholas' by heart.
'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse...
The following parodies of 'The Night Before Christmas' all follow the same basic structure. Find your favorite and amuse your friends while you sit around the Christmas tree.
'Twas the night before Christmas, but the spirit of Yule
Was not what it should be in olde Liverpool...
'Twas the night before Christmas and all through the pad
Not a hepcat was swinging and that's nowhere, dad...
'Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the pad,
There was nada happenin', now that's pretty bad...
'Twas the night before Christmas and all 'round my hips
Were Fannie May candies that sneaked past my lips...
'Twas Christmas on Facebook, when all through the house
Every parent was posting, and clicking their mouse...
'Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house
Things were real mellow... even Irving, the Mouse.
'Twas the nocturnal segment of the diurnal period preceding the annual Yuletide celebration,
and throughout our place of residence, kinetic activity was not in evidence among the possessors of this potential,
including that species of domestic rodent known as musculus...
Whereas, on or about the night prior to Christmas, there did occur at a certain improved piece of real property (hereinafter 'the House')
a general lack of stirring by all creatures therein, including, but not limited to a mouse...
'Twas the night before Yuletide, and all through the hole
Not a creature was stirring, not even a Dhole...
'Twas the night before Chanukah, boichiks and maidels,
Not a sound could be heard, not even the dreidels...
'Twas the night before Christmas, and Santa's a wreck...
How to live in a world that's politically correct?
Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the trailer
Not a creature was stirrin' 'cept a redneck named Taylor...
Twas the night before Christmas on the Enterprise-D,
On a routine short hop to Starbase 03...
'Twas the night before Christmas, in Texas, you know.
Way out on the prairie, without any snow...
'Twas the month before Christmas, and all through the store,
Each department was dripping with Yuletide decor.
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