Then Herod Sent Forth, and Slew All the Children That Were in Bethlehem; or, He Hadn't Stopped Christmas from Coming! It Came!

Herod listened like a Grinch,
his hand cupped to his ear,
for the voice of Rachel weeping
on the midnight clear.

Then sweetly singing o'er the plain
a sound grew, rising o'er the snow--
fahoo fores, dahoo dores,
in excelsis Deo!