I can do music in Lesson 15 . My name is ______c i s u Key D, first note A(so) Up On the Housetop United States

M a cappella l count-in: 1,2,3,4,Up... 1860s holiday song o D G D A 7

D Benjamin R Hanby n a C m o r

f Up on the housetop rein-deer pause, Out jumps good old San - ta Claus! e s D G G A 7 D u m o o r s s a l Down thru the chim - ney with lots of toys, all for the lit-tle ones' Christ-mas joys c r chorus 7 o G D A f D n o i s s i m r Ho, ho, ho! Who wouldn't go? Ho, ho, ho! Who wouldn't go----? e p

h G D 7 t A D i w d e i p o

c Up on the house-top, click, click, click. Down thru the chim-ney with good Saint Nick!

, e r 2. First comes the stocking of little Nell Benjamin Hanby was born in Ohio in 1833. In his short a l Oh, dear Santa, fill it well life (he died at age 35) he worked as a teacher, principal, C

J give her a dolly that laughs and cries, minister and editor for a music publishing house. He L

One that will open and shut her eyes. wrote over 60 songs. The house where he wrote most of 2

1 Ho, ho, ho... the songs is now a museum in Westerville, Ohio. 0 2

. c 3. Next comes the stocking of little Will C.C. Moore's poem "Twas the Night Before Christmas", Oh, just see what a glorious fill written in 1822 became so well known that by the mid Here is a ball and lots of blocks, 1800s it was taken as the authority on how Santa made There's even a little train that talks. his visits. It certainly was the source for Benjamin Hanby who wrote "Up on the Housetop" in the 1860s. "Jolly Ho, ho, ho... Old St. Nicholas", whose authorship has never been pinned down, is also attributed by some to Hanby

tune: traditional Key G, first note G(do) Santa Claus Has 10 Toys! words: LJ Clare glockenspiel count-in: 1,2,3,4,San... 2011 holiday song

San-ta Claus has x ten toys, San-ta Claus has x ten toys,

San - ta Claus has x ten toys, Go San - ta, Go! Ho, ho, ho!

Ask me to sing you a holiday song!