Pistol Packin Santa
This is my Happy Christmas song for this year.
Inspired by the threats of terrorists, I came to a comforting conclusion: It is the Elite Special Forces hot shot Marine ringing the bell for the Salvation Army at the front of the store that will stop the terrorist at the Mall. It is this thought that inspired the song I just wrote and published.
Here in Emmett, Idaho, nearly all my friends are veterans and all their wives are armed. I actually feel quite safe. We are happy. We are also aware that what has happened elsewhere may happen here. The small library across the street is even offering a class on what to do if someone starts shooting up the library. They also smile and hand out home-baked Christmas cookies.
Here is my Christmas song for 2017. Be merry and happy and warm. We are so very blessed and I am grateful to live in a country where we may enjoy the season, put up the nativity and say “Merry Christmas”.
Pistol Packin’ Santa
Words and music by Patti Jo Roth-Edwards Copyright 2017
He was a pistol packin’ Santa - he came from Abilene
Nicest guy you ever met without an ounce of mean
Under his red suit he kept a loaded .44
Ringing his bell by the front of the place, right by the door
He had a smile and a kind word for each passer-by
Collected money for the orphans and my oh my
Under the beard and velvet was a hot shot Marine
Elite special forces dressed in camo green
The bad dude didn’t know that the target was not soft
He thought he’d find it easy to get lots of shots off
But when he pulled his long gun out and began to scream
Santa took him down faster then anything
That pistol packin’ Santa’s a hero in our town
A man who saved my family Thank God he was around
The bad dude’s gone to wherever bad sick people go
Because of apistol packin’ Santa and a loaded .44.
