Joy to the World


Joy to the World 

"Joy to the World" is an English Christmas carol. Today, the carol is usually sung to an 1848 arrangement by the American composer Lowell Mason. - Wikipedia   

I had 2 ideas: one is the usual winter theme and the other is something totally unrelated, instead telling of eldritch abominations. The lyric “he rules the world” seemed so naturally flowed to “with tentacles” and then other spooky stuff followed. I could not decide which one I liked best so here are both versions. 

Joy to the world  

The winter's here  

Let earth receive the snow  

Let every heart,   

Prepare to sled  

So speedy down the hill  

So speedy down the hill  

So speedy, speedy down the hill  

  

Joy to the earth  

In season's dark  

Let all rejoice in song  

While fields and floods  
Rocks, hills and plains  
Repeat the sounding joy  
Repeat the sounding joy  
Repeat, repeat the sounding joy 

  

No more let jack frost Bite your nose 

Back to the house we go 

To get some snacks 

And Hot chocolate 

And other tasty treats 

And other tasty treats  

And tons of other tasty treats 

 

Love rules the house and keeps us warm 

Let's keep good company 

And share the space  

Through darkened times 

To keep our spirits bright 

To keep our spirits bright 

To keep, to keep our spirits bright 

Joy to the world 

The doom has come 

Let all retreat in fear 

Let every heart 

Prepare for death 

As kaiju roam the earth 

As kaiju roam the earth 

As kaiju kaiju roam the earth 

 

With bleary eyes 

Behold the sights 

Abominations reign 

Beelzebub,  

Leviathan  

And demons' roaring hordes 

And demons' roaring hordes 

And demons' demons' roaring hordes 

 

No more let mortals rule the land  

No freedom for our kind  

We squandered it  

And trashed the earth  

Destroying everything 

Destroying everything 

Destroying, destroying everything  

 

He rules the world with tentacles 

Who makes the nations bow  

The terrors of  

His wickedness  

And bellowing growls, low  

And bellowing growls, low  

And bellowing, bellowing growls low  

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