Day 14 - Pumpkin Pie
Feeling in a particularly sour mood one day, after yet another endless ear-bashing, head-splitting, nerve-irritating performance of the 'Now!' playlist I decided an anti-Christmas, Christmas song was needed.
I decided that my narrator wanted to reject all feelings of goodwill to all men served up by syrupy festive tunes and the lyric was born.
Initially, I was particularly disturbed by 'Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree', although not the excellent Brenda Lee original. No, what upset me was the infuriating Mel Smith and Kim Wilde version, where Mel 'hilariously' suggests to Kim that there's 'plenty of pumpkin pie left'. Immediately I thought, no, I don't want any pumpkin pie, nor any of the other tropes wheeled out every year.
The saving grace, if there is one, comes in the form of merely wanting to spend Christmas with that special person in the narrator's life.
'Pumpkin Pie' by Les Bicyclettes de Belsize
Written, recorded, performed, produced by Les Bicyclettes de Belsize
(c) Richard Longley 2025
lyrics
I don’t want to rock around the Christmas tree
I don’t even want to stop the cavalry
I think I’ve enough ‘Mistletoe and Wine’
And don’t tell me
There’s more pumpkin pie
I never saw mommy kissing Santa Claus
I’ve never been skating, or decked the halls
I couldn’t care less if the snowman melts
Or Rudolph
Starts to fly
Christmas is the time of year
To raise a glass or two
But I just want to hold you near
And spend the day with you
I don’t want to listen to ‘Jingle Bell Rock’
Or hear about the shepherds, watching their flocks
Keep your figgy pudding and your hot mulled wine
I’m not singing ‘Silent Night’
Christmas is the time of year
To raise a glass or two
But I just want to hold you near
And spend the day with you
I don’t want to rock around the Christmas tree
I don’t even want to stop the cavalry
I think I’ve enough mistletoe and wine
And don’t tell me
There’s more pumpkin pie
There’s more pumpkin pie
There’s more pumpkin pie
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