Twas
the night before Christmas, when all through the house,
not a creature was stirring, not
even a louse;
The plants were drying by the chimney
with care,
In hopes that the bud would soon
be ready to share.
The
children were nestled all snug in their beds,
While visions of bowling danced
in their heads;
And mamma had the crop, And I had
my pipe
And we'd just settled down and
begun to get nice.
When
out on the lawn there arose such a clatter,
I dropped my bowl to see what was
the matter.
Away to the window I flew like
a flash,
Tore closed the shutters, and threw
down the sash.
The
security light on the new-fallen snow
Gave the luster of midday to the
Pinto below;
When what to my wondering eyes
should appear,
But my buds decked out in full
party gear.
Beer
cans rattled as they opened their doors,
And I knew in a moment what they
had come for.
More rapid than agents with warrants
they came,
And they whistled, and shouted,
and called out my name:
"YO
ELVIS!, YO ELVIS!, WE'VE COME TO PARTAKE!,
WE KNOW YOU GOT WEED MAN-IT'S TIME
TO BAKE!
To the top of your porch! To the
top of your wall!
Mooch Away! Mooch Away! Mooch Away,
all!"
As
dry buds that before the wild hurricane fry,
When they meet with an obstacle,
it's time to get high;
So up to the house-top my buds
they all flew
With bags full of munchies and
bowls and bongs too.
And
then, in a twinkling, I heard on my roof-
The prancing of flip-flops and
I knew it was proof-
As I drew in my head, and was turning
around,
Down the chimney my buds came with
a bound.
They
were dressed all in tye-dye from their heads to their foot,
And their clothes were all tarnished
with resin and soot;
A bundle of bowls they had flung
on their backs,
As they scanned my crib for something
to pack.
Their
eyes-how they twinkled; their pimples, how merry!
Their eyes were all bloodshot,
their noses like cherrys!
Their parched little mouths were
dry as a bone,
And their lids were all hanging
incredibly low;
The
stump of a blunt they held tight in their teeth,
And the smoke it encircled their
heads like a wreath;
They had Dorito-stained faces and
little round bellys
That shook, when they coughed,
like a bowl full of jelly.
A
wink of their eyes and a flick of their bics,
Soon gave me to know they were
about to get lit;
They spoke not a word and went
straight for my stash,
And filled all their bowls; then
turned it to ash,
And
coughing and laughing rip after rip,
They toked and they toked and smoked
all my shit!;
They sprang to their Pinto and
slammed on the gas,
Got it all sideways and tore up
my grass.
But
I heard them exclaim, ere they drove out of sight,
"THANKS FOR THE WEED MAN-ANYONE
GOT A LIGHT?!"