Yes, I generally pick a festive tune at this time of year and yes, Santa Claus is coming to town (if you've been nice of course) but I've got here by an odd route.
There's a book swap section of the place where I volunteer and I picked up a volume of short stories called Silent Nights: Christmas Mysteries. It delivered a mystery of its own.
Very close to the end of the book I found a folded piece of lined paper, left by a previous owner I imagine. Written on that paper was a short list:
Find cards
Write out cards
Get Christmas presents
That seems like a pretty obvious set of things to do on the run up to Christmas so it leads me to a list of my own:
Who needed to put that on a list?
Did they complete those tasks?
Had they intended to add more and not got round to it?
Why is the list inserted two pages from the end of the book's last story?
Did something happen which resulted in them not finishing it?
Curious.
So a festive song that mentions a list brings me to Santa Claus is Comin' to Town. Written as far back as 1934 it's been recorded umpteen times since.
I'm going with The Crystals version.
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