Oh Christmas Tree

To be sung ...  You know the tune🎄  (Alter-carols for the Christmas Season)

OH CHRISTMAS TREE

Oh Christmas tree, oh plastic tree,
How slippery your branches are
Oh Christmas tree, oh plastic tree
How brightly shines your styro-star
How sturdy your metallic stem
Lights twinkle off, then on again
Oh Christmas tree, oh plastic tree
Your branches are so fragrance-free

Oh Christmas tree, oh plastic tree,
Much puzzlement you bring to me

From in a box they bring you out 

No cones or needles drift about

Oh Christmas tree, oh plastic tree

You limply stand, so tinsel-y

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The Plastic Aftermath of Christmas

The Owl and the Pussycat floated to sea 

in an ugly recycling bin 

It over-flowed with broken toys 

and plastic, paper and tin 

They sailed away on Boxing Day 

on a river of rubbish off-shore 

Large gifts they had bought but now they thought 

that with packaging, less is more 

They sailed for what seemed a year and a day 

and came to an island grim 

It rose as a mountain of styrofoam 

so big there was nowhere for fish to swim 

As night-time fell on the greasy sea 

and clouds obscured the moon, 

they threw the disposables overboard 

in fear they would capsize soon 

As water entered their plastic craft 

they used take-out cups to bail, 

but these broke into soggy flakes 

and they knew they couldn't but fail 

They spied a barge of digital waste 

for which the sea hadn't room 

Then a massive storm sent their bin to the deeps 

and they drowned by the light of the moon, 

the moon, 

they drowned ... by the light of the moon