Up On The Housetop – English Lyrics

• By: Super Simple Songs

Lyrics & Translation

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
reindeer /ˈreɪn.dɪər/ A2	noun - a North American and Eurasian species of deer with large antlers, traditionally associated with Christmas
pause /pɔːz/ A2	noun - a short stop or break in action or speech
jumps /dʒʌmps/ A2	verb - to push yourself off the ground and into the air
Santa /ˈsæn.tə/ A1	noun - a Christian saint associated with gift-giving at Christmas
chimney /ˈtʃɪm.ni/ A2	noun - a vertical passage for smoke in a building
toys /tɔɪz/ A1	noun - objects for children to play with
joys /dʒɔɪz/ A2	noun - feelings of great happiness
presents /ˈprɛz.ənts/ A2	noun - gifts given to someone
delivered /dɪˈlɪv.ərd/ B1	verb - to bring and hand over to the proper recipient
snack /snæk/ A2	noun - a small amount of food eaten between meals
sleigh /sleɪ/ B1	noun - a vehicle mounted on runners for traveling over snow
fly /flaɪ/ A2	verb - to move through the air using wings

Key Grammar Structures

• Up on the housetop, reindeer pause

  ➔ Prepositional phrase indicating location; Simple present tense.

  ➔ "Up on the housetop" indicates where the reindeer are. "Pause" is the simple present tense, used here to describe a general action or a characteristic of the reindeer.

• Out jumps good old Santa Claus

  ➔ Inversion for emphasis; Simple present tense.

  ➔ Normally, the sentence would be "Good old Santa Claus jumps out." The inversion "Out jumps..." emphasizes the action of Santa jumping out. "Jumps" is simple present.

• Down through the chimney with lots of toys

  ➔ Prepositional phrase indicating direction and accompaniment.

  ➔ "Down through the chimney" indicates the direction of Santa's movement. "With lots of toys" indicates what he is carrying.

• All for the little Christmas joys

  ➔ Prepositional phrase indicating purpose.

  ➔ "All for the little Christmas joys" explains the reason for Santa's actions. "For" indicates purpose.

• Who wouldn’t go?

  ➔ Rhetorical question using a conditional construction.

  ➔ This is a rhetorical question implying that everyone *would* want to go. It uses the conditional "would" to express a hypothetical situation.

• Filled with goodies top to toe

  ➔ Past participle used as an adjective; Idiomatic expression.

  ➔ "Filled" is a past participle acting as an adjective to describe the stockings. "Top to toe" is an idiom meaning completely, from head to foot.

• To place the presents that he brings

  ➔ Relative clause with "that"; Infinitive of purpose.

  ➔ "That he brings" is a relative clause modifying "the presents." "To place" is an infinitive of purpose, explaining why Santa springs to the tree.

• Everything delivered from his sack

  ➔ Past participle used as an adjective; Passive voice implied.

  ➔ "Delivered" is a past participle acting as an adjective to describe "everything." The sentence implies that everything *was delivered* from his sack (passive voice).