The Ten Days of Carpmas

Yes… I’m writing CarpCarols AND painting my kitchen.

Skilz.

Carpmas Wassail Wail

Walk door-to-door with a troop of like-minded neighbours, sing this shanty, see what gets given to you (or thrown at you):

The tune for this year’s Carpmas Carol is Howard Blake’s “Walking in the Air“. If you are not familiar with the music then please watch the linked YouTube clip below.

(it’s a favorite of mine)

A warm-up for Carpmas 2011!

Just discovered that Carp Carol 2007 was not included in this collection (Carpmas pre-dates this blog):

Help with writing this upcoming year’s Carp Carol would be greatly appreciated!

Are you ready for the Carpmas Sing-along?

Authors Note: The Carp Carol exercise was a bit of a personal failure this year. I had it in my head that I was going to finally – after eight years – master my Vince Guaraldi arrangement of O Tannenbaum, film it and then upload it for you to sing along to.

I am, apparently… completely incapable of such mastery. After several mistake riddled video-taped performances  – I have finally given up.

Instead, you get a photo of me at the piano:

And lyrics to the Carpmas Carol entitled “Potato Plant“:

*

Potato Plant, Potato Plant

Starchy tubers growing

Potato Plant, Potato Plant

Carbohydrates hoeing

Mash, fry, brown, whip and julienne

Bake, grate, cube, crisp and au gratin*

Potato Plant, Potato Plant

Starchy tubers growing

*

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And the Youtube video for the Vince Guaraldi arrangement:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw6h4mZO1oU[/youtube]

*Note that for rhyming purposes one must use the anglo pronunciation of “au gratin”. Now, why the English choose to anglify a french word when they could just as easily say “with cheese” is beyond me… but HECK… it works with the lyrics in this song…