(I shot the Santa
But I didn’t shoot no deputy, oh no! Oh!
I shot the Santa
But I didn’t shoot no deputy, ooh, ooh, oo-ooh.)
Yeah! All around in the North Pole,
Elfs tryin’ to track me down;
They say they want to bring me in guilty
For the killing of a Reindeer
For the life of a Reindeer.
But I say:
Oh, now, now. Oh!
(I shot the Santa.) – the Santa.
(But I swear it was in selfdefence.)
Oh, no! (Ooh, ooh, oo-oh) Yeah!
I say: I shot the Santa – Oh, Lord! –
(And they say it is a capital offence.)
Yeah! (Ooh, ooh, oo-oh) Yeah!
Santa Saint Nick always hated me,
For what, I don’t know:
Every time I plant a seed,
He said kill it before it grow –
He said kill them before they grow.
And so:
Read it in the news:
(I shot the Santa.) Oh, Lord!
(But I swear it was in self-defence.)
Where was the Reindeer? (Oo-oo-oh)
I say: I shot the Santa ,
But I swear it was in selfdefence. (Oo-oh) Yeah!
Freedom came my way one day
And I started out of town, yeah!
All of a sudden I saw The jolly fat man
Aiming to shoot me down,
So I shot – I shot – I shot him down and I say:
If I am guilty I will pay.
(I shot the Santa,)
But I say (But I didn’t shoot no reindeer),
I didn’t shoot no reindeer (oh, no-oh), oh no!
(I shot the Santa.) I did!
But I didn’t shoot no reindeer. Oh! (Oo-oo-ooh)
Reflexes had got the better of me
And what is to be must be:
Every day the bucket a-go a well,
One day the bottom a-go drop out,
One day the bottom a-go drop out.
I say:
I – I – I – I shot the Santa.
Lord, I didn’t shot thet Rudolph, see? Yeah!
I – I (shot the Santa) –
But I didn’t shoot no reindeer, yeah! No, yeah!