Every Who Down in Who-ville Liked Christmas a lot...
But the Grinch,Who lived just north of Who-ville, Did NOT!
The Grinch hated Christmas!
The whole Christmas season!
Now, please don't ask why. No
one quite knows the reason. It
could be his head wasn't
screwed on just right. It could
be, perhaps, that his shoes
were too tight. But I think that
the most likely reason of all
May have been that his heart
was two sizes too small.
But,Whatever the reason, His heart or his
shoes, He stood there on Christmas
Eve, hating the Whos, Staring down
from his cave with a sour, Grinchy
frown At the warm lighted windows
below in their town. For he knew
every Who down in Who-ville beneath
Was busy now, hanging a mistletoe wreath.
"And they're hanging their
stockings!" he snarled with a
sneer, "Tomorrow is Christmas!
It's practically here!" Then he
growled, with his Grinch fingers
nervously drumming, "I MUST
find some way to stop
Christmas from coming!"
For, Tomorrow, he knew...
...All the Who girls and boys Would wake
bright and early. They'd rush for their toys!
And then! Oh, the noise! Oh, the Noise!
Noise! Noise! Noise! That's one thing he
hated! The NOISE!
NOISE! NOISE! NOISE!
Then the Whos, young
and old, would sit down
to a feast. And they'd
feast! And they'd feast!
And they'd FEAST!
FEAST! FEAST! FEAST!
They would feast on
Who-pudding, and rare
Who-roast beast Which
was something the
Grinch couldn't stand in
the least!
And THEN They'd do something He liked
least of all! Every Who down in Who-ville,
the tall and the small, Would stand close
together, with Christmas bells ringing.
They'd stand hand-in-hand. And the Whos
would start singing!
They'd sing! And they'd sing! And they'd
SING! SING! SING! SING! And the more
the Grinch thought of this
Who-Christmas-Sing, The more the Grinch
thought, "I must stop this whole thing!"
"Why, for fifty-three years I've put up with it
now!" "I MUST stop this Christmas
from coming!
...But HOW?"
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