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I am not a scrooge!

Frosty the Snowman is not a Christmas Song.

After a number of lovey-dovey winter/snow related songs, we finally get to a kids’ song. We have in this one a bunch of kids who build a snowman and in some bizzare Stephen King moment put a top hat on him and he becomes a gigantic ice-golem spreading mayhem and panic through out the town. (In Jewish folklore, a golem is an animated anthropomorphic being, created entirely from inanimate matter. )

Golem were usually made of clay … so .....

Okay, maybe not so much.

But this one actually gave me nightmares as a kid because that’s how I imagined it.

Then Rankin and Bass produced a cartoon featuring the voice of Jackie Vernon as Frosty and Jimmy Durante as the narrator. Rankin and Bass made a whole industry of creating Christmas, and later Easter, mythology out of a grain of a story or song and whole cloth. In Rankin and Bass’s world, when the children put the top hat on their snowman he came to life and the first thing he said was “Merry Christmas!” Huh? Why? It didn’t make any sense to me. Add to that the top had was stolen (no finders-keepers if you know who the owner is) from a bumbling evil magician. And then there was conflict and hilarity! Whoopee!

No idea why Rankin and Bass put Santa in this, but there he is.

See? Stephen King! Christine meets the Shining! (Remember where the topiary was moving around in the storm? Scary stuff.)

The YouTube video is here for your enjoyment while you read the lyrics. But as you will see, not Christmas and actually a hint of Spring in the air at the end.

Frosty The Snowman

Frosty the snowman was a jolly happy soul,
With a corncob pipe and a button nose,
And two eyes made out of coal.

Frosty the snowman is a fairy tale, they say,
He was made of snow but the children
know how he came to life one day.

There must have been some magic in that
Old silk hat they found.
For when they placed it on his head,
He began to dance around.

Oh, Frosty the snowman
Was alive as he could be,
And the children say he could laugh
And play just the same as you and me.

Thumpetty thump thump,
Look at Frosty go.
Thumpetty thump thump,
Over the hills of snow.

Frosty the snowman knew
The sun was hot that day,
So he said, ‘Let’s run and
we’ll have some fun
now before I melt away.’
Down to the village,
With a broomstick in his hand,
Running here and there all
Around the square saying,
Catch me if you can.
He led them down the streets of town
Right to the traffic cop.
And he only paused a moment when
He heard him holler ‘Stop!’

For Frosty the snowman
Had to hurry on his way,
But he waved goodbye saying,
‘Don’t you cry,
I’ll be back again some day.’

Thumpetty thump thump,
Look at Frosty go.

Thumpetty thump thump,
Over the hills of snow.
I am not a scrooge!

Frosty the Snowman is not a Christmas Song.

After a number of lovey-dovey winter/snow related songs, we finally get to a kids’ song. We have in this one a bunch of kids who build a snowman and in some bizzare Stephen King moment put a top hat on him and he becomes a gigantic ice-golem spreading mayhem and panic through out the town. (In Jewish folklore, a golem is an animated anthropomorphic being, created entirely from inanimate matter. )

Golem were usually made of clay

Okay, maybe not so much.

But this one actually gave me nightmares as a kid because that’s how I imagined it.

Then Rankin and Bass produced a cartoon featuring the voice of Jackie Vernon as Frosty and Jimmy Durante as the narrator. Rankin and Bass made a whole industry of creating Christmas, and later Easter, mythology out of a grain of a story or song and whole cloth. In Rankin and Bass’s world, when the children put the top hat on their snowman he came to life and the first thing he said was “Merry Christmas!” Huh? Why? It didn’t make any sense to me. Add to that the top had was stolen (no finders-keepers if you know who the owner is) from a bumbling evil magician. And then there was conflict and hilarity! Whoopee!

No idea why Rankin and Bass put Santa in this, but there he is.

See? Stephen King! Christine meets the Shining! (Remember where the topiary was moving around in the storm? Scary stuff.)

The YouTube video is here for your enjoyment while you read the lyrics. But as you will see, not Christmas and actually a hint of Spring in the air at the end.

Frosty The Snowman

Frosty the snowman was a jolly happy soul,
With a corncob pipe and a button nose,
And two eyes made out of coal.

Frosty the snowman is a fairy tale, they say,
He was made of snow but the children
know how he came to life one day.

There must have been some magic in that
Old silk hat they found.
For when they placed it on his head,
He began to dance around.

Oh, Frosty the snowman
Was alive as he could be,
And the children say he could laugh
And play just the same as you and me.

Thumpetty thump thump,
Look at Frosty go.
Thumpetty thump thump,
Over the hills of snow.

Frosty the snowman knew
The sun was hot that day,
So he said, ‘Let’s run and
we’ll have some fun
now before I melt away.’
Down to the village,
With a broomstick in his hand,
Running here and there all
Around the square saying,
Catch me if you can.
He led them down the streets of town
Right to the traffic cop.
And he only paused a moment when
He heard him holler ‘Stop!’

For Frosty the snowman
Had to hurry on his way,
But he waved goodbye saying,
‘Don’t you cry,
I’ll be back again some day.’

Thumpetty thump thump,
Look at Frosty go.

Thumpetty thump thump,
Over the hills of snow.