"When the Goose Is Hanging High" is a song sung by Ben Haramed in The Little Drummer Boy. The song was cut out on Fox Family (now Freeform) airings of the special in the late 1990s and 2000s though it has since been restored back.
Lyrics
- When the day is good, and the wind is dry,
- And the goose is hanging high,
- I can't work like other men do,
- When the goose is hanging high.
- When the sun is bright in the big, blue sky,
- And the goose is hanging high,
- The devil steals my heart away
- When the goose is hanging high.
- Gold and silver on my mind
- Mischief in my soul
- I wanna live like the rich man lives
- With life in my control!
- When the day is bad, and the wind is wet,
- And the goose is flying low,
- I gotta work like other men do,
- When the goose is flying low.
- But...when...the...
- Day is good, and the wind is dry,
- And the goose is hanging high,
- I can't work like other men do
- When the goose is hanging high!
- When...the goose is hanging high!