{"id":1020,"date":"2004-12-18T17:29:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-18T17:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/2019\/02\/20\/santa-has-been-drinking-apologies-to-tom-waits\/"},"modified":"2019-02-20T21:56:42","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T21:56:42","slug":"santa-has-been-drinking-apologies-to-tom-waits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/2004\/12\/18\/santa-has-been-drinking-apologies-to-tom-waits\/","title":{"rendered":"Santa Has Been Drinking (Apologies to Tom Waits)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the Santa has been drinking, my yule log is asleep<br \/>\nand the sled is back in the North Pole, and left me all alone<br \/>\nAnd Rudolph has to take a leak<br \/>\nHave you noticed that the elves all need a haircut?<br \/>\nand the fattened goose looks like a prison break<br \/>\nand the the wreath is out of lip balm<br \/>\nand as usual, the chimmeny is on the make<br \/>\nand the Santa has been drinking<br \/>\nheavily<\/p>\n<p>And the Santa has been drinking, he&#8217;s on the nice stuff tonight<br \/>\nThe Santa has been drinking<br \/>\nAnd you can&#8217;t find your missus, even with a Geiger counter<br \/>\nAnd I guarantee you that she will hate you from the bottom of her glass of milk<br \/>\nand all of the kids<br \/>\nBut mind you, you just can&#8217;t get jolly without her<br \/>\nAnd the Santa has been drinking<\/p>\n<p>The Santa has been drinking<\/p>\n<p>The snowman was blind in one eye and he can&#8217;t see out of the other<br \/>\nMr. Jack Frost has got a hearing aid and he showed up with his eggnog<br \/>\nAnd the Santa has been drinking<\/p>\n<p>Without fear of contradiction I say:<br \/>\nthe Santa has been drinking<\/p>\n<p>Our Father who areth in the North Pole<br \/>\nhallowed it be<br \/>\nThy sleigh, thy presents come, I will be done<br \/>\nAh yeah, as it is in the stocking<br \/>\nGive us this day our daily snow<br \/>\nForgive us our naughties<br \/>\nas we forgive all those who continue to be naughty against us<br \/>\nAnd lead us not into the fog bank<br \/>\nbut deliver us from Kwanza<br \/>\nand someone give us all a candy cane<\/p>\n<p>Cause the Santa has been drinking<br \/>\nand he&#8217;s your friend not mine<br \/>\nThe Santa has been drinking<br \/>\nand he&#8217;s not my responsibility<br \/>\nThe chimney sweep is this Sumo wrestler, kinda cream-puff Cookie Mistletoe.<br \/>\nAnd the holly bough is just a mental midget with the I.Q. of a fence post<br \/>\nAnd I&#8217;m going down<br \/>\nHang on to me, I&#8217;m going down<br \/>\nWatch me skate across an acre of fireplaces<br \/>\nI know I can do it<br \/>\nI&#8217;m in total control<\/p>\n<p>And the Santa has been drinking<br \/>\nand he is embarrassing me<br \/>\nThe Santa has been drinking<br \/>\nhe raided his present bag<br \/>\nThe Santa has been drinking<br \/>\nAnd the carolers are all on fire<br \/>\nand all the list was just fooling<br \/>\nand the little helpers have retired<br \/>\nand I&#8217;ve got a feeling that the Santa has been drinking<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s just a hunch<\/p>\n<p>The Santa has been drinking<br \/>\nand he&#8217;s going to lose his milk &#038; cookies<br \/>\nAnd the Santa has been drinking<br \/>\nnot me<br \/>\nnot me<\/p>\n<p>The Santa has been drinking<br \/>\nnot me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the Santa has been drinking, my yule log is asleep and the sled is back in the North Pole, and left me all alone<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"chat","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[173],"class_list":["post-1020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-chat","hentry","tag-wierd","post_format-post-format-chat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3593,"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020\/revisions\/3593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}