Friday, December 21, 2012

Christmas prison song


Ethan is trying to write a Christmas musical before we leave for Scottsdale on Sunday. He says he has already written four songs but he still has two to go. He needs to write one more tonight.

I said, "Can I help?"

He said, "I need a song about breaking out of prison."

I immediately started offering up Christmas prison song titles and riffs. He told me to come back when I had a real song.

Fifteen minutes later I offered up this:

"Jailhouse Christmas"

We'll have a jailhouse Christmas
We're really gonna rock the joint
We'll have a jailhouse Christmas
Ain't nothing gonna disappoint

It's gonna get crazy
Wait and see
We're gonna party in the slammer
And throw away the key
We'll have a jailhouse Christmas
My jailhouse friends and me

We'll have a jailhouse Christmas
Gonna decorate the jailhouse tree
We'll have a jailhouse Christmas
Gonna set our spirits free

From the jailhouse laundry
to the jailhouse gym
We're gonna rock around the cellblock
'til the lightbulbs dim
We'll have a jailhouse Christmas
Let the jailhouse fun begin

We'll have a jailhouse Christmas
We're really gonna rock the joint
We'll have a jailhouse Christmas
Ain't nothing gonna disappoint

Well I'm up for good behavior
With my Christmas grin
But if they let me out
I'm coming right back in
For that jailhouse Christmas
Let the jailhouse fun begin

Yeah, the jailhouse Christmas
Let the jailhouse fun begin

Yeah, the jailhouse Christmas
Let the jailhouse fun begin


He liked it enough to let me sing it to his friend Aaron via Skype. But he says it's not technically about breaking out of prison, so he'll have to think about it.


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