Thursday, December 19, 2002 2:04 pm 

Subject  Dr. Finbar's Christmas Edition 


Season's Greetings.

Although we have more or less shut up shop for the year, we thought it 
would be fun (for us) to send you one last email. We've been receiving 
a lot of unsolicited mail in recent days entreating us to have a 
wonderful Christmas (and also to buy some stuff). So, it occurred to 
us that we ought to send you a message entreating you to have a 
wonderful Christmas (and also asking you to buy some stuff). 
Unfortunately, our merchandising arm hasn't really hit its straps yet, 
so the Dr. Finbar fitness videos and memory-improvement tapes will just 
have to wait for next Christmas.

However, in the hope that giving you something for free this Christmas 
will induce sufficient guilt to prompt you to buy one of our fitness 
videos next Christmas, we offer you the following gift.

We have penned you a Christmas song. You can download the audio by 
following this link:

http://www.geocities.com/friskylichen/FinbarChristmas.mp3

This song was written exclusively for subscribers to this list. No-one 
else on the planet knows about it (naturally), and it is not advertised 
on our website. Just so that you know what you are letting yourself in 
for by downloading, the lyrics are reproduced below.


 THE DR. FINBAR CHRISTMAS SONG
 
 Dead on your feet when the cock starts to crow
 Crawl down the street with your head bent down low
 Pull back the sheets and your bed's filled with snow
 It's Christmas time again.
 
 Look for a robin, all you see is a bat
 That boring old man drops in for a chat
 You fall on the cat as it falls on a rat
 It's Christmas time again.
 
 Lay me down low,
 Lay me down low where the dead presents go.
 
 Look at the pretty young things on the box
 Cunning, conniving and sharp as a fox
 Smelling as fresh as yesterday's socks
 It's Christmas time again.
 
 He's making a list, you're wrecking it twice
 You fill up his sleigh with vermin and lice
 
 It's Christmas time again.
 
 Lay me down low,
 Lay me down low where the dead presents go.
 Lay me down low,
 Lay me down low with the spent mistletoe.
 Lay me down low,
 Lay me down low.

 It's Christmas time again.


We don't expect our song to be making an appearance at Carols by 
Candlelight any time soon. But in the interim, why not play our song 
at your office Christmas party? We're sure it will set the appropriate 
mood.

On a more serious note, we really do hope you have a great Christmas 
and New Year (and that you remember to buy one of our memory-
improvement tapes). We'd like to thank very much all of you who have 
come to see us play this year.

We'll be starting up again some time in January, so you'll probably 
hear from us again in a month's time.

Until then,

The Dr. Finbar Trio.