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Revision as of 10:43, 22 January 2020
"We Are Santa's Elves" is a song written for the Rankin/Bass Christmas television special Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. It is sung by the elves for Santa Claus, who utterly hates it, while Mrs. Claus enjoys it.
In later rebroadcasts of the special, the song was trimmed to cut out the instrumental bridge and most of the lyrics following it. At some point in the 1970s, the sequence featuring the song was cut entirely before being reinstated a few years later.[1]
Lyrics
- Note: Lines highlighted in red text indicate lines cut from CBS' later broadcasts.
Ho Ho Ho, Ho Ho Ho
We are Santa's elves!
We are Santa's elves
Filling Santa's shelves
With a toy for each girl and boy
Oh, we are Santa's elves!
We work hard all day
But our work is play
Dolls we try out
See if they cry out
We are Santa's elves!
We've a special job each year
We don't like to brag
Christmas Eve we always fill Santa's bag
Santa knows who's good
Do the things you should
And we bet you, he won't forget you
We are Santa's elves!
[Instrumental bridge]
We've a special job each year
We don't like to brag
Christmas Eve we always fill Santa's bag
Santa knows who's good
Do the things you should
And we bet you, he won't forget you
We are Santa's elves!
Ho Ho Ho, Ho Ho Ho
We are Santa's elves!
Ho HO!