Every Brown down in Brownville Liked Christmas a lot…
But UPS, Who lived just north of Brownville, Did NOT!
UPS hated Christmas! The whole Christmas season!
Now, please don’t ask why. No one quite knows the reason.
It could be thier head wasn’t screwed on just right.
It could be, perhaps, that their shoes were too tight.
But I think that the most likely reason of all,
May have been that their heart was two sizes too small.
Whatever the reason, Their heart or their shoes,
They stood there on Christmas Eve, hating the Browns
Staring down from above with a sour, Grinchy frown,
At the warm lighted windows below in their town.
For they knew every Brown down in Brownville beneath,
Was busy now, hanging a mistletoe wreath.
“And they’re hanging their stockings!” they snarled with a sneer,
“Tomorrow is Christmas! It’s practically here!”
Then they growled, with their fingers nervously drumming,
“We MUST find some way to stop Christmas from coming!”
For Tomorrow,they knew, all the Brown 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 Browns, 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 Brown-pudding, and rare Brown-roast beast.
Which was something UPS couldn’t stand in the least!
And THEN They’d do something they liked least of all!
Every Brown down in Brownville, the tall and the small,
Would stand close together, with Christmas bells ringing.
They’d stand hand-in-hand. And the Browns would start singing!
They’d sing! And they’d sing! And they’d SING!
SING! SING! SING!
And the more UPS thought of this Brown Christmas Sing,
The more UPS thought, “I must stop this whole thing!”
“Why, for 100 years we've put up with it now!”
“We MUST stop this Christmas from coming! But HOW?”
Then they got an idea! An awful idea!
UPS GOT A WONDERFUL, AWFUL IDEA!
“we know just what to do!” UPS laughed in their throat.
And they made a quick Santy Claus hat and a coat.
And they chuckled, and clucked, “What a great Grinchy trick!”
“make them stay under nine5,as per BJ and rick!”
“All I need is a reindeer…” UPS looked around.
But, since reindeer are scarce, there was none to be found.
Did that stop the UPS? No! The they just simply said,
“If I can’t find a reindeer, we’ll make one instead!”
So they called up IE, Max. Then they took some red thread,
And they tied a big horn on the top of his head.
THEN they loaded some bags And some old empty sacks,
On a ramshackle sleigh And they hitched up old Max.
Then UPS said, “Giddiap!” And the sleigh started down,
Toward the homes where the Browns Lay asnooze in their town.
All their windows were dark. Quiet snow filled the air.
All the Browns were all dreaming sweet dreams without care.
When they came to the first little house on the square.
“This is stop number one,” the old shareholder hissed,
And he climbed to the roof, empty bags in his fist.
Then he slid down the chimney. A rather tight pinch.
But, if Santa could do it, then so could UPS.
He got stuck only once, for a moment or two.
Then he stuck his head out of the fireplace flue.
Where the little Brown stockings all hung in a row.
“These stockings,” he grinned, “are the first things to go!”
Then he slithered and slunk, with a smile most unpleasant,
Around the whole room, and he took every present!
Pop guns! And bicycles! Roller skates! Drums!
Checkerboards! Tricycles! Popcorn! And plums!
And he stuffed them in bags. Then , very nimbly,
Stuffed all the bags, one by one, up the chimney!
Then he slunk to the icebox. He took the Browns feast!
He took the Brown-pudding! He took the roast beast!
He cleaned out that icebox as quick as a flash.
Why, UPS even took their last can of Brown-hash!
Then he stuffed all the food up the chimney with glee.
“And NOW!” grinned the shareholder, “I will stuff up the tree!”
And as he grabbed the tree, and he started to shove,
When he heard a small sound like the coo of a dove.
He turned around fast, and he saw a small Brown!
Little Cindy-Lou Brown , who was not more than two.
UPS had been caught by this tiny Brown daughter,
Who’d got out of bed for a cup of cold water.
She stared at UPS and said, “Santy Claus, why,”
“Why are you taking our Christmas tree? WHY?”
But, you know, he thought deeply ,so smart and so slick,
He thought up a lie, and he thought it up quick!
“Why, my sweet little tot,” the fake Santy Claus lied,
“There’s a light on this tree that won’t light on one side.”
“So I’m taking it home to my workshop, my dear.”
“I’ll fix it up there. Then I’ll bring it back here.”
And his fib fooled the child. Then he patted her head,
And he got her a drink and he sent her to bed.
And when Cindy-Lou Brown went to bed with her cup,
HE went to the chimney and stuffed the tree up!
Then the last thing he took Was the log for their fire!
Then he went up the chimney, himself, the old liar.
On their walls he left nothing but hooks and some wire.
And the one speck of food That he left in the house,
Was a crumb that was even too small for a brown mouse.
Then He did the same thing To the other Browns’ houses
Leaving crumbs Much too small For the other Browns mouses!
It was quarter past dawn… All the Browns, still a-bed,
All the Browns, still asnooze When he packed up his sled,
Packed it up with their presents! The ribbons! The wrappings!
The tags! And the tinsel! The trimmings! The trappings!
Three thousand feet up! Up the side of Mt. Crumpit,
He rode with his load to the tiptop to dump it!
“PoohPooh to the Browns!” he was grinchishly humming.
“They’re finding out now that no Christmas is coming!”
“They’re just waking up! I know just what they’ll do!”
“Their mouths will hang open a minute or two,
Then the Browns down in Brownville will all cry BooHoo!”
“That’s a noise,” grinned IE, “That I simply MUST hear!”
So they paused. And the CEO put his hand to his ear.
And he did hear a sound rising over the snow.
It started in low. Then it started to grow.
But the sound wasn’t sad! Why, this sound sounded merry!
It couldn’t be so! But it WAS merry! VERY!
He stared down at Brownville! UPS popped their eyes!
Then they shook! What they saw was a shocking surprise!
Every Brown down in Brownville, the tall and the small,
Were singing! Without any presents at all!
They HADN’T stopped Christmas from coming! IT CAME!
Somehow or other, it came just the same!
And IE, with their-feet ice-cold in the snow,
Stood puzzling and puzzling: “How could it be so?”
“It came with out ribbons! It came without tags!”
“It came without packages, boxes or bags!”
And they puzzled three hours, till his puzzler was sore.
Then UPS thought of something they hadn’t before!
“Maybe Christmas,” they thought, “doesn’t mean SPOHR.”
“Maybe Christmas…perhaps…means a little bit more!”
And what happened then? Well…in Brownville they say,
the shareholders small hearts Grew three sizes that day!
And the minute their heart didn’t feel quite so tight,
They whizzed with his load through the bright morning light,
And they brought back the toys! And the food for the feast!
And as a gesture let Integrity carve the roast beast.