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This easy to follow, beginner level, play-along video for guitar and vocals is in the key of G major with no capo required. Scrolling chord chart format. If necessary, slow the tempo in the settings menu for practice purposes.
This version of the song has the been transposed up to G major and the modulation at the end has been removed for ease of play.
"Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer" is a novelty Christmas song. Written by Randy Brooks, the song was originally performed by Elmo Shropshire in 1979 under the brand of Elmo and Patsy, the double act Shropshire had with his then-wife Patsy Trigg.[1]
Lyrics
The lyrics tell the story of a grandmother celebrating Christmas Eve with her family when she ventures out into a snowstorm while drunk on eggnog, despite everyone beseeching her not to. She is found the next day, trampled; Santa Claus and his reindeer are determined to be the culprits when "incriminating Claus marks" are found on her back. Grandpa is unfazed by his wife's demise and spends the holiday "watching football, drinking beer and playing cards with Cousin Mel," while the rest of the family mourns Grandma's death and wonders if her gifts should be returned (agreeing unanimously that they should). Christmas dinner otherwise goes on as normal, with a centerpiece of roast goose, figgy pudding for dessert, and candles that match Grandma's wig. In closing, the singer warns listeners to "better watch out for yourselves", because "a man who drives a sleigh and plays with elves" is unfit to carry a driver's license.
In the music video, where Elmo plays both Grandma and Grandpa and Patsy plays Cousin Mel, Grandma survives the attack and makes a triumphant return through the chimney.
The Irish Rovers released this version of Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer on their 1999 Christmas Album "Songs of Christmas."
The Irish Rovers is a group of Irish musicians that formed in Toronto, Canada in 1963[1] and named after the traditional song "The Irish Rover".
The primary voices heard in the group's early songs were Will Millar (tenor), Jimmy Ferguson (baritone), George Millar and Joe Millar, and in the last twenty years, also John Reynolds and Ian Millar. Wilcil McDowell's accordion has been a signature sound of the band throughout their more than fifty five years.
Founding member George Millar and his cousin Ian are both from Ballymena, Davey Walker from Armagh, Sean O'Driscoll from Cork, Gerry O'Connor from Dundalk, percussionist Fred Graham from Belfast.[2] Flute and whistle player Geoffrey Kelly was born in Dumfries, Scotland.
In the 1980s, the group briefly renamed itself The Rovers. During this period, their song "Wasn't That a Party" led to crossover success in the country rock genre.
Lyrics
Grandma got run over by a Reindeer
Walkin' home from our house Christmas Eve
You can say there's no such thing as Santa
But as for me and grandpa, we believe
She'd been drinking too much eggnog
And we begged her not to go
But she left her medication
And she stumbled out the door into the snow
When they found her Christmas morning
At the scene of the attack
There were hoofprints on her forehead
And incriminating claws marks on her back
Grandma got run over by a Reindeer
Walkin' home from our house Christmas Eve
You can say there's no such thing as Santa
But as for me and grandpa, we believe
Now we're all so proud of grandpa
He's been taking this so well
See him in there watching football
Drinking beer and playing cards with cousin Mel
It's not Christmas without grandma
All the family's dressed in black
And we just can't help but wonder
Should we open up her gifts
Or send them back?
Grandma got run over by a Reindeer
Walkin' home from our house Christmas Eve
You can say there's no such thing as Santa
But as for me and grandpa, we believe
Now the goose is on the table
And the puddin' made a face
And a blue and silver candle
That would just have matched the hair in grandma's wig
I've warned all my friends and neighbors
Better watch out for yourselves
They should never give a license
To a man who drives a sleigh
(Or plays with elves...)
Grandma got run over by a Reindeer
Walkin' home from our house Christmas Eve
You can say there's no such thing as Santa
But as for me and grandpa, we believe
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