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 Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2016 9:26 pm
Quote: Advertised around town on available bulletins, a carolling group has been requesting volunteers to join them. There doesn't seem to be any catches--it's just a fun little opportunity to spread some Holiday cheer while making some new friends! Of course, you don't have to if you don't want to--maybe, instead, you're the sort to chase carollers off your doorstep?
Naturally there was still the chance that they would have doors slammed in their faces or angry people yelling at them to get off their property, but the red-head thought that maybe if he sparked a little interest in people, they might not have been so eager to chase away the singers. And how did Jack plan to spark some interest? With a few Christmas song parodies, of course.
The first chance he got, the teenager printed out copies of the lyrics for each person in their group and replaced the traditional lyrics in the carolling folders with the parody lyrics. The original songs were so drilled into everyone's heads that he wasn't sure they would even open the folders to see the new lyrics, but he had a plan to fix that. With luck, they'd all be singing with him by the end of it. By the time they were all set to go out and carol, Jack had everything ready for their first stop.Orangeish Sherbert ((Please let me know if there's anything I need to change! In the following posts, I'll be mentioning the song lyrics he put in their folders. wink And if you want to share your own favorites as well, please do!))
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Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2016 5:03 am
Gale was pretty excited to go caroling, but she was a little nervous that she would get laughed at or that someone would see her or…or whatever. Normal ‘young adult’ worries, or not so normal. She was just insecure sometimes.
She had met the other carolers and hadn’t made much of an effort to talk to anyone, thinking it would be better if she just sang and went home, but, she still hadn’t gotten her music…and the boy sitting next to her seemed to have all the books. “Hey. Uh. You need help passing those out? Or could I at least have one?”
It was surprising to see a teenager here, most of the people caroling were old…or very young hanging out with their parents…or were just weirdly into Christmas or something. “I’m Gale. Did you get dragged here by someone else?”
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Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2016 6:12 am
The boy looked up, seeming mildly startled, until he registered what the young woman was asking him and adopted a smile. "Oh, sure. I wasn't trying to hog them all, I swear," he assured her with a sheepish laugh. He handed Gale one of the folders and got up to set another down on his chair for himself before heading toward the back of the room where he'd borrowed the stack from in the first place. "Be right back!"
He might have passed them out as the lady had suggested, but he was too cautious for that. Once people opened the folders and realized that they didn't contain the usual printouts they probably should have, they'd probably guess that the first person to suspect would be the last one to have had them all, and that would have been the person to pass them out, of course. Sure, someone observant like the young lady who sat beside him might have noticed him with the stack or seen him go to the back to replace them, but he thought that was a much safer risk than to go giving them himself while also making everyone familiar with a potential culprit.
Once he returned to his seat and put his own folder in his lap, the lady beside him introduced herself as Gale. Grinning amicably, he extended a hand and said, "Jack. Nice to meet you." Her question gave him pause, however, before he laughed aloud. "Nah. Why? Did you?" he asked, glancing about briefly for anyone who might have been accompanying her.
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Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2016 10:57 am
Gale watched the boy with a slightly confused look on her face, but she was glad that he had given her a book, now she was at least able to see just what they would be singing, and maybe if she didn’t like the selections, she could just…slip away unnoticed and head home. She did have some extra work to get done before the semester was over.
She was frowning by the time Jack got back, looking at the music with a confused sort of worried look on her face. These…weren’t the songs she was expecting…
“Ah, no. None of my friends wanted to come.” Finally the brunette looked up from the music book and gave the boy a look that clearly showed that she had absolutely no idea what in the hell was going on. “So…did you take a look at this music? What are they trying to make us sing? These aren’t normal songs…or I think they might have been normal at one point…but…I don’t…”
Gale helplessly waved one of the pieces of music at Jack. “I don’t know if I really want to go anywhere singing this…”
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Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2016 9:07 pm
The guilty teenager couldn't help but crack a grin at the young lady's comments on the music book.
"Oh, come on, it'll be fun!" he insisted. "They're still Christmas songs, just different from the ones people are normally used to hearing. Maybe it'll make people want to listen out of curiosity for a minute or two more before trying to chase us off their doorsteps. Besides, what's the difference between singing normal carols and singing this? They're both equally weird. I'll bet anything that these will bring more smiles to faces, than the normal ones, though."
Jack turned to the page of one of his favorite parodies. "Here, I'll show you. I'll sing this and you can't smile until I'm done, okay? Ahem..." He cleared his throat with exaggerated seriousness before opening his mouth to sing the song to the overused tune of 'Jingle Bells'.
"I heard a reindeer hoof,
then Santa dressed in red,
came crashing through the roof
and landed on my bed.
I thought it was a dream,
but quickly did I wake,
as soon as I heard Santa scream,
'I want a piece of cake!'
Oh, Santa Claus, Santa Claus, you are much too fat;
I was sleeping peacefully but now my bed is flat.
Oh, Santa Claus, Santa Claus, how much do you weigh?
I'm glad I'm not a reindeer that has to pull your sleigh!
He got up off the floor
and said, 'How do you do?'
I said, 'My back is sore,
my head is black and blue.'
'So sorry!' he replied,
and then he asked my name.
He offered me a ride,
I said, 'No, thank you just the same!'
Oh, Santa Claus, Santa Claus, you are much too fat;
I was sleeping peacefully but now my bed is flat.
Oh, Santa Claus, Santa Claus, how much do you weigh?
I'm glad I'm not a reindeer that has to pull your sleigh!
I heard a 'ho, ho, ho,'
the sleigh was in the sky,
but it was moving slow
and wasn't very high.
It wobbled in the air,
I hoped it wouldn't fall;
Said Santa, chewing cookies,
'Merry Christmas, one and all!'
Oh, Santa Claus, Santa Claus, you are much too fat;
I was sleeping peacefully but now my bed is flat.
Oh, Santa Claus, Santa Claus, how much do you weigh?
I'm glad I'm not a reindeer that has to pull your sleigh!"
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Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2016 5:10 pm
At first the song was at least a little funny, but by the end, Gale felt her face burning with embarrassment. There was no way she could go around singing songs like that! What sort of a caroling thing was this? “I…I don’t know, Jack. I might…I might just skip out if that’s what we’re going to be singing…was this planned this way? I didn’t realize and I don’t…”
She was already standing, trying to gather up her things and get the heck out of there before she got in even deeper and was ushered out the door by the seemingly well meaning older folks who were in charge of this caroling get together.
“I just…these songs don’t scream…’Christmas’ to me, you know? I was hoping for…for a nice chorus of ‘Silent Night’ or…I don’t know…” Just feel good songs. She wanted feel good songs is what she was after. She wanted to rock out and spread cheer…not sing about getting half smothered by a giant fat Santa…
That just wasn’t the Christmas she was looking for. Not this year.
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Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2017 9:10 am
Jack had been so involved in the lyrics that he hadn't realized how embarrassed Gale seemed until he was finished. He seemed shocked that it hadn't even earned a reluctant grin. Could she have been shy about singing something so silly? Or did she just not enjoy the sense of humor that he did?
"It wasn't planned this way," he confessed, getting up to pursue her if need be. Though Jack thought he didn't care about how others felt about him and his actions, this situation was honestly bothering him and he wasn't sure why. Guilt? Why? "I switched out the lyrics. I thought it would be more fun that way."
Grabbing a stack of the original Christmas song lyrics he had traded for the parody ones, he held them out to the young lady. "Sorry, Gale. I didn't mean to chase you off or annoy or embarrass anyone. I really thought people would like them since everyone already knows the same old Christmas carols sung year after year. I figured it might give people a reason to stop and actually listen to what we were singing since they wouldn't likely know the lyrics already."Orangeish Sherbert ((So sorry for the delay. OTL))
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