Dec 16 Santa Claus is Coming To Town

Dec 16 Santa Claus is Coming to Town
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Claus_Is_Coming_to_Town
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Fred_Coots
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haven_Gillespie

Oh You better watch out,
You better not cry,
You better not pout,
I'm telling you why:
Santa Claus is coming to town.

He's making a list,
He's checking it twice,
He's gonna find out
who's naughty or nice.
Santa Claus is coming to town.

He sees you when you're sleeping,
He knows when you're awake.
He knows when you've been bad or good,
So be good for goodness sake.

So...You better watch out,
You better not cry
You better not pout,
I'm telling you why.
Santa Claus is coming to town.

Little tin horns,
Little toy drums.
Rudy-toot-toot
and rummy tum-tums.
Santa Claus is coming to town.

Little toy dolls
that cuddle and coo,
Elephants, boats
and Kiddy cars too.
Santa Claus is coming to town.

The kids in Girl and Boy Land
will have a jubilee.
They're gonna build a Toyland town
all around the Christmas tree.

Oh You better watch out,
You better not cry.
You better not pout,
I'm telling you why.
Santa Claus is coming
Santa Claus is coming
Santa Claus is coming
To town.

James Lamont "Haven" Gillespie was the writer of the classic Christmas song "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town," along with many other popular songs of the day.
Gillespie dropped out of high school at the age of 16 and became a typesetter at the Cincinnati Times Star. After moving to New York, he became a journalist and composer of songs for vaudeville shows, in collaboration with many other artists. His work first gained notice in 1925.

John Frederick Coots was an American songwriter, having composed more than 700 songs. He is most famous for the song “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town,” which became one of the biggest best sellers in American music history.

In 1934, when Haven Gillespie brought him the lyrics to “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town,” Coots came up with the skeleton outline of the music in just ten minutes. Later when Coots brought the song to his publisher, Leo Feist Inc., they liked it but thought it was a kids' song and did not expect too much from it.

Coots offered the song to Eddie Cantor, who used it on his radio show that November. It became an instant hit. The morning after the radio show there were orders for 100,000 copies of sheet music, and, by Christmas, sales had passed 400,000copies!

Craft: Santa, list
http://www.origami-club.com/en/ Christmas>several Santas to choose from
http://www.dltk-holidays.com/xmas/msantajar.htm
http://crafts.kaboose.com/paper-plate-santa.html