{"id":8908,"date":"2022-04-01T17:16:04","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T17:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=8908"},"modified":"2025-08-25T23:35:26","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T23:35:26","slug":"up-on-the-housetop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/up-on-the-housetop\/","title":{"rendered":"Up on the Housetop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">(c) 1864<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">[C] Up on the housetop, reindeers pause.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">[F] Out jumps [C] good ol&#8217; [G7] Santa Claus. [C] Down through the chimney with lots of toys.\u00a0 [F] All for the [C] little ones, [G7] Christmas [C] joys<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; color: #ff0000;\">{ CHORUS }<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">[C] First comes the stocking of [F] little Nell.<br \/>\n[C] Oh, dear Santa, [G7] fill it well. [C] Give her a dolly that [F] laughs and cries. [C] One that will open a<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">nd [G7] shut her [C] eyes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; color: #ff0000;\">{ CHORUS }[F] Ho, ho, ho! [C] Who wouldn&#8217;t go?\u00a0 [G7] Ho, ho, ho! [C] Who wouldn&#8217;t go?<br \/>\n[C] Up on the housetop, [F] Click, click, click. \u00a0 [C] Down through the chimney with [G7 good Saint [C] Nick<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">[C] Next comes the stocking of [F] little Will.\u00a0 [C] O<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">h, just see what a [G7] glorious fill.\u00a0 [C] Here is a hammer and [F] lots of tacks.\u00a0 [C] A<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">lso a ball and a [G7] whip that [C] cracks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; color: #ff0000;\">{ CHORUS }<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(c) 1864 [C] Up on the housetop, reindeers pause. [F] Out jumps [C] good ol&#8217; [G7] Santa Claus. [C] Down through the chimney with lots of toys.\u00a0 [F] All for the [C] little ones, [G7] Christmas [C] joys { CHORUS } [C] First comes the stocking of [F] little Nell. &hellip; <span class=\"more-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/up-on-the-housetop\/\" class=\"more-link\">CLICK TO VIEW SONG<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Up on the Housetop<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,11,116,117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-christmas","category-live-baritone","category-live-piano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}