"Chestnuts roasting on an open fire
Jack Frost nipping at your nose
Yuletide carols being sung by a choir
And folks dressed up in winter clothes..."
Wait a minute!
Is that how The Christmas Song goes?
Yesterday, in the annual onslaught of holiday albums by New Artists for Big Bucks, I heard the song by a female vocalist, with this bumpy revision above to the original.
Mel Torme and Robert Wells wrote it 77 years ago, munchkins.
From Nat King Cole's first recording in 1945, to Shawn Mendes and Meghan Trainor in 2020, Josh Groban, Jacob Collier, Michael Buble all sing the original lyric: " ... and folks dressed up like Eskimos."
Yes, the word has been out of date for decades, and as we advanced, replaced by less questionable, more preferable nouns.
So let's revise all the songs.
. The Lady Is Kind of a Karen (The Lady is a Tramp)
. The Gentleman is Learning Challenged (The Gentleman is a Dope)
. Young But Possibly Dyslexic (Young and Foolish)
You can read what the American Heritage Dictionary has to say about the E-word here.
How far back in time do we have to go to flag words and people to show how woke we are in the purer-than-thou present?
What if we devoted the same zeal to solve a few current issues? The ones sure to be red-flagged 77 years from now by future word police?
Just asking.
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