A Poem a Day (333): Rudolph the red-nosed crooner

 

Rudolph the red-nosed crooner

 

‘Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer

had a very shiny nose’, so the song goes,

as everyone knows, but no one knows

how he loved to sing his heart out.

 

This reindeer knew he could carry a tune,

wrap it up and make it special,

belting out his hits of the decade

as Santa steered the sleigh through the sky.

 

His songs could be heard in the Milky Way,

on earth and on all of the planets,

echoing around the entire galaxy.

Even the tone-deaf stars could hear him.

 

Everyone loved Rudolph, he was just so nice,

so no-one could tell him what was true,

that he couldn’t sing for love or money –

all his songs were well out of tune!

 

So all of the reindeer wore ear plugs

and plastered big grins on their faces

cos no-one wanted to hurt poor Rudolph

as he led the sleigh crooning through the wispy clouds.

 

 

Copyright Vickie Johnstone, December 22, 2020

 

 

In the series of YouTube videos of me reciting my poems, here I am saying this one out loud:

A Poem a Day #34: Rudolph the red-nosed crooner

Thanks again to Graham Fraser for organising this series.

 

 

 

 

Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer is a song by songwriter Johnny Marks, based on the 1939 story Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, published by the Montgomery Ward Company. 

 

In 1939, Marks' brother-in-law, Robert L. May, created the character Rudolph as an assignment for the company and Marks decided to adapt the story into a song.