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Novelty Socks

from Singles 2010 by Matt roi Berger

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When I started the Song Cycle last January, I started it on the 10th - over a week into the year. I knew I was eventually going to have to make up for the loss of that week, but I was unsure how to do so for a very long time. I credit my roommate Zaq for offering the suggestion that I release a Christmas single.

For a while now, Melissa and I have been talking about recording a Christmas album of offbeat, seasonal tunes (This was partially a get-rich-quick scheme; Have you considered how many Xmas albums are released each year? Stunning. We'd get bought up by a Major in no time. I think.). One of the first (and only) songs I came up with was "Novelty Socks," which is now, perhaps, one of the silliest, strangest additions to the Song Cycle.

I originally wanted a slamming Xmas sax solo for the break, but deadlines didn't allow for the collaboration. Trust, though - if I had done so, you can bet the performer's additions would be noted as "Novelty Sax." Like I said - silliest (stupidest?) song in the Cycle.

lyrics

Novelty Socks! Novelty Socks!

Well, I bought my babe a pair of novelty socks
She wore those things up, up and down the block
She wore that pair most everywhere
She wore them ‘til her feet were bare
She loves her…
Novelty Socks! Novelty Socks!

Well, I could ‘a bought a book for my baby on ‘a Christmas Eve
And I thought she’d like a heated pot a’ water and some Chinese leaves
Well I almost bought her tickets to her baseball team.
But I thought about it twice and I couldn’t be mean.
She got her…
Novelty Socks! Novelty Socks!

Novelty Socks! Novelty Socks!

Well, Christmas is the time for the gifting of the Novelty Socks
But the Greatest Gift of All isn’t simply for the Gentile flocks
If it’s the 2nd night of Kwanzaa or at Chanukah’s end
And your feet are feeling chilly just ‘a slip them on in
To your…
Novelty Socks! Novelty Socks!

Novelty Socks! Novelty Socks!

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from Singles 2010, released December 31, 2010
Music and lyrics by Mattroi

Backing vox by Melissa Lusk

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