Christmas is my favourite time of year. As a Christmas present to all my blog readers I’ve written a Christmas story inspired by the Christmas carols ‘Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree’ and ‘Jingle Bell Rock’. I’m entering into Susannah Hill’s annual Holiday Contest. Be sure to check out some of the other entries, as there is always a lot of great stories entered by some fantastic kidlit authors.
Jungle Bell Rock
Rocking around the Christmas tree,
At the City Central Zoo,
A monkey hanging joyfully,
Ev’ry lion is there, too.
Rocking around the Christmas tree,
Where the seal plays with his ring,
Later he’ll have some fishy pie,
And do some carolling.
You will get an animal-ish feeling,
When you hear, reindeer singing,
“Let’s be jolly; Deck the stalls with boughs of holly.”
Rocking around the Christmas tree,
Have a happy holiday,
Animals dancing merrily,
And putting on a Christmas play!
Jungle bell, jungle bell, jungle bell rock,
Orangutan swing and lyrebird sing,
Stomping and tromping and flinging some dung,
Now the jungle hop has begun.
Jungle bell, jungle bell, jungle bell twist,
Goannas climb in jungle bell time.
Dancing and prancing with okapi flair,
And a polar bear!
When it’s night time, it’s the kite’s time,
To rock with the nightingale.
Jungle bell time is a swell time,
To go riding on an old Clydesdale.
Giddy up zebra herd, pick up your feet,
Gallop around the tree.
Dance with a dingo to a jungle drum beat,
That’s the jungle bell rock!
Super-clever take on the song! “Flinging some dung” and “decking the stalls” – brilliant! Good luck!
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Thanks, Genevieve!
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Fun twist on the song! And I agree with Genevieve that “flinging some dung” is especially funny!
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Kids love anything to do with toilet humour lol
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I love the idea of the animals enjoying the holiday, too. Let the dung flinging begin!
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I love that! “Let the dung flinging begin!” I can just imagine one of the animals announcing that at the party.
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Love the zoo-y twist on these songs!
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Thanks, Tracey! I noticed there were a few other animal-themed entries.
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This is cute and fun!
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Thanks, Shari!
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I’d like to see an animal Christmas play at the zoo. =)
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It would certainly be a sight to see!
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Creative fun idea, Jo, and nice transition from one song to the other – two Christmas favorites! Happy Holidays and thanks so much for joining in the contest fun!
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Thanks, Susanna! I always have such fun with your prompts! There’s some great entries, as always, this year; I’ve been enjoying reading them all.
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Party in the Zoo!!! Fun entry.
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Thanks, Jen! It was fun to write 😀
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There is no way you can read that – it MUST be sung 🙂 Really well done.
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Thanks Marissa 🙂
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