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Lyrics & Translation

[English]

[overlapping chatter] - Hey!

[laughter]

- ♪ Oh, jingle bells, jingle bells ♪

♪ Jingle all the balls ♪

- Ho ho ho, huh? Another year and it still fits.

- It's a Christmas miracle!

- Merry Christmas, everybody. - Merry Christmas!

- Ho ho ho ho!

[record scratches]

- Oh--whoa! - Hey!

- God's sakes, will you people

give this Christmas bullshit a rest?

I'm trying to do your year-end evaluations,

and I can't hear myself think!

- Okay. - Ho ho ho, boy, huh?

Who pissed in his Cheerios?

[record scratch, music resumes] - Noice!

- I'm in favor of the music, guys, just so you know.

- Hey, Chief, you ever consider giving him this week off?

He's always a wet blanket on the holidays.

- Yeah. He's always in a bad mood,

and it's always when he does our year-end reviews.

Every December, we get Scrooged on the write-up.

- We gotta do something about it.

- ♪ Hey, fa-la-la la-la-la-la ♪

- ♪ Deck the halls with boughs of holly ♪

♪ Bubba-dubba-doo buh-doo-boo-boo ♪

♪ Leigh Weigh sings the Christmas tunes ♪

♪ Zubba-dubba-dah bah-doo-buh-boo ♪

Eddie! Hey, Eddie, come here.

[clicks music off] You get a present yet

for the Yankee Swap? - Yeah.

I found a half-empty bottle of dandruff shampoo

in my locker--I'm gonna pop an ugly green bow on it.

- Okay. Well, you know what?

I'm gonna at lunchtime and get a gift.

I can get two and say one's from you.

- Oh, cool--you can wrap mine and hand it out for me too.

- Ha ha. You don't hand out a gift at the Yankee Swap.

Each person picks a number, then they pick a gift.

So let's say I go first and you go second.

I open my gift, then you open yours.

You have the option of deciding to keep your gift

or stealing mine, but look out--

- [snoring] - Anyone who hasn't

picked behind us can pick a gift

of the person in front of them.

So interestingly, the last pick is often the best pick,

and the first pick is the worst pick.

Are you listening to me? - [snoring]

- You're especially humbuggy this year.

What's wrong? - Look at these Christmas cards

from my ex-girlfriends.

Look how happy they are with their happy husbands

and their happy kids. - Oh, yeah, Carla,

the comptroller's office-- I like her.

Oh...Jasmine. She was too good for you.

I don't know why you're getting so worked up.

Half these kids aren't even yours.

[both chuckling]

- That's very funny, Terry.

The fact is, all these women asked me to marry them,

but I turned them all down.

- Yeah, sure you did. - I did.

And every year on Christmas, they send me these cards

to remind me of what I don't have.

- You know what?

You have a bad case of the holiday blues.

- Maybe I do have the holiday blues, Terry.

Or maybe it's that the more obnoxiously jolly you become,

the more obnoxiously crusty I have to be

to create balance in the universe.

- Like Batman and the Joker. - Exactly.

Wait--which one am I? - The Joker, of course.

- But he's the jolly one. - No, he's the bad guy--

like you. - You think Batman

is jollier than the Joker?

When's the last time you saw Batman smile?

- I don't hang out with Batman, so I can't tell you.

- Maybe it was at The Super Friends Yankee Swap

[funny voice] because he had the last pick!

- [laughs] Okay, great. Go do your evaluations,

and go easy on my crew. - They're my crew too.

- Merry Christmas, Eddie! - Eh!

[click] [music resumes]

[singing with Leigh] ♪ O, holy night ♪

♪ Leigh Weigh has a great voice ♪

Oh! - Look at all this stuff.

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
jingle /ˈdʒɪŋɡəl/ A2	verb - to make a light ringing sound
miracle /ˈmɪrəkl/ B1	noun - an unusual or wonderful event that is not explicable by natural laws
bullshit /ˈbʊlʃɪt/ C1	noun - nonsense; talk intended to deceive or impress
evaluations /ɪˌvæljuˈeɪʃənz/ B2	noun - the assessment of someone or something's value or quality
pissed /pɪst/ C1	verb - to make angry; to annoy
noice /nɔɪs/ A2	interjection - an enthusiastic expression of approval
wet blanket /wet ˈblæŋkɪt/ B2	noun - a person who discourages enjoyment or enthusiasm
Scrooged /skruːdʒd/ B2	verb - to treat someone in a miserly or unkind way, especially at Christmas (referencing Ebenezer Scrooge)
Yankee Swap /ˈjæŋkiː swɒp/ B1	noun - a party game involving exchanging gifts
dandruff /ˈdændrʌf/ B1	noun - flakes of skin on the scalp
stealing /ˈstiːlɪŋ/ A2	verb - taking something without permission
humbuggy /ˈhʌmbʌɡi/ B2	adjective - bad-tempered and cynical, especially at Christmas
ex-girlfriends /ˌeks ˈɡɜːrlfrendz/ B1	noun - former girlfriends
comptroller /kəmˈptrəʊlər/ B2	noun - an official who manages financial accounts
obnoxiously /əbˈnɒkʃəsli/ C1	adverb - in an extremely annoying or unpleasant way
crusty /ˈkrʌsti/ B1	adjective - bad-tempered and irritable
balance /ˈbæləns/ B1	noun - an even distribution of weight or power
jollier /ˈdʒɒliər/ B1	adjective - more cheerful and happy

Key Grammar Structures

• ♪ Jingle all the balls ♪

  ➔ Imperative mood/Exclamatory sentence with a playful alteration of a common phrase.

  ➔ The use of 'balls' instead of 'bells' is a deliberate, humorous alteration. The sentence functions as a playful command or exclamation, typical of Christmas songs.

• Who pissed in his Cheerios?

  ➔ Idiomatic expression/Colloquialism - rhetorical question.

  ➔ This is a very informal, idiomatic expression meaning 'What has made him so angry?' It's a rhetorical question, not expecting an answer.

• You have the option of deciding to keep your gift or stealing mine,

  ➔ Gerunds ('deciding', 'stealing') as objects of prepositions ('of'). Conditional sentence structure.

  ➔ The sentence explains the rules of the Yankee Swap game. 'Deciding' and 'stealing' function as nouns due to being gerunds, and are the objects of the preposition 'of'. The 'or' creates a conditional choice.

• Every December, we get Scrooged on the write-up.

  ➔ Adverbial phrase of time ('Every December'). Passive voice with a colloquial verb ('Scrooged').

  ➔ The sentence uses 'Scrooged' (derived from the character Ebenezer Scrooge) as a verb meaning 'given a harsh or negative performance review'. It's in the passive voice, indicating that 'we' are the recipients of this negative review.