Bruno’s Christmas On the Mall

Every Christmas Grandma Hall
Takes us Christmas shopping
Down to Macy's on the mall
Where the joint is hopping
Once through the revolving door
Twice through the revolving door
Thrice through the re-
"Come along children!"
Come along, come along
It's Christmas on the mall
With Bruno, Shirley, Sue and Mike
And Spike and Grandma Hall
Little Spike has brought along a list
As long as he is tall
"Let's go see Santa!"
Come along, it's Christmas on the mall
Off we raced and joined the hysteria
Grandma Hall could not have been cheerier
Bought us luncheon at the buffeteria
Shakes and franks and fries
"Come on! Santa!"
Then we got on line to see Santa Claus
Waited, waited, waited for Santa Claus
Spike got 15 seconds with Santa Claus
Ho ho ho time flies
Grandma said "I've got to buy
A tie for Uncle Lee
We'll meet back here in camping gear
At quarter after three
Bruno said "We'll be here"
And we watched her disappear
"Where to, gang?"
"To toys! To toys!
To toys! To toys! To toys!"
Up the escalator we're thundering
Down the escalator we're thundering
Up the escalator we're thundering
On our way to toys
Come along (to toys!) Come along (to toys!)
It's Christmas on the mall
"To dolls! Mitts! Skis! and kits!"
And stuff for girls and boys
"And even though you know that you
Could never have it all"
It's fun to dream so come along
It's Christmas on the Mall
At 3:15 we headed back
But Grandma Hall was late
So we found a tent with sleeping bags
And crept inside to wait
Unknown to us as time went by
3:30, 4, 4:10
Our grandma had forgotten us
And gone home on the crosstown bus
"She does that now and then"
And meanwhile in our teepee
We all fell fast asleep
"Hey Bruno! Wake up!
We fell asleep! It's really late! Oh no!"
Through the flap we softly stepped
On newfallen plastic snow
"It's so quiet! It's empty!
I bet it's closed for the day
We're locked in! What'll we do?
I know...we'll play!"
Come along, come along
It's Christmas on the mall
"We're gonna get in trouble
No, we're gonna have a ball!
Shirley, Spikie, don't you get it?
We can have it all!
It's magic time, come along!"
It's Christmas on the mall
Up in music, played all the cool guitars
Down in deli, ate all the chocolate bars
Raced from aisle to aisle in the pedal cars
Bikes and scooters
And up in pets we checked the aquarium
Then hooked up a home planetarium
Thundered through the ladies' underwearium
Toward ComputerLand
Shirley found a switch and turned on 64 TVs
61 Fred Flintstones and 3 NYPDs
Then Bruno on a forklift truck
Came roaring through the door
"Who wants a ride? I do! Come on!"
We tore off through the store
Through antiques, through shoes and sneaks
Our reckless ride extended
And there in small appliances
Is where our party ended
"Hey you kids, what are you doing?" "Nothing."
"Lower the forklift. Someone's looking for you"
We went downstairs and there was Grandma
So relieved and glad
"Are you all right?" "Sure, we're ok"
"The fright you must have had"
"See I told you she'd get here
Can we do this every year?"
"Come along (please?) We'll see (awww)"
It's Christmas on the mall
It didn't last, it went too fast
But oh, we had a ball
Every kid deserves a night
When they can have it all
A rowdy night of toys and song
With no adults to say it's wrong
A night like this will come along
Come along, come along
It's Christmas on the mall