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Wordless Wednesday: The Christmas Song that Drove My Mam’maw Crazy

Wordless Wednesday: The Christmas Song that Drove My Mam’maw Crazy

December 7, 2016 By Kara Kennedy

There was no grandma I knew or know that was too happy with the Christmas song that was released in the late ’70s: ‘Grandma Got Ran Over By A Reindeer.’  In fact, my mam’maw Kennedy despised the song, so much so she would leave the room when it came on! It was common for her to have music playing over the speakers at her house all year, and especially during the holidays.  She loved Christmas music, but when the above mentioned song came on she would roll her eyes and leave.   Whoah be unto us grandchildren, if we started singing it to her, and we did.  We would run after her singing the song, she would laugh because she had a fabulous sense of humor. Oh how I wish I could sing that song to her now. I miss her everyday and even more so during the holidays.  I can see her now, giving me that look when the song came on, but lest we forget, she drove me crazy playing the Alvin and Chipmunks Christmas Song over and over.  The Chipmunks song and Grandma Got Ran Over by a Reindeer make me smile every time I hear them, and I hear them often during the holidays because they always are a part any Christmas playlist I create.

Here is my 2016 Christmas Tree Decorating Playlist:

 

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