[ Featuring The MGM Studio Chorus ]
[Instrumental]
Dr. Seuss' How The Grinch Stole Christmas! Soundtrack Album Lyrics
Dr. Seuss' How The Grinch Stole Christmas! Soundtrack Lyrics
- MGM Studio Orchestra - Opening
- MGM Studio Orchestra - Trim Up The Tree
- Boris Karloff - Tomorrow Is Christmas, It's Practically Here
- Boris Karloff - Welcome Christmas
- Boris Karloff - I Must Stop Christmas
- Thurl Ravenscroft - You're A Mean One, Mr. Grinch
- Thurl Ravenscroft - You're A Mean One, Mr. Grinch (Reprise)
- Boris Karloff - A Quarter of Dawn
- Boris Karloff - Welcome Christmas (Reprise)
- MGM Studio Orchestra - Finale
Copyright: Lyrics © Original Writer and Publisher
Copyright: Lyrics © Original Writer and Publisher
Boris Karloff - Tomorrow Is Christmas, It's Practically Here
[ Featuring The M-G-M Studio Orchestra, The M-G-M Studio Chorus ]
Every Who down in Whoville liked Christmas a lot.
But the Grinch who lived just North of Whoville did not!
The Grinch hated Christmas! The whole Christmas season!
Now, please don't ask why. No one quite knows the reason.
It could be, perhaps, that his shoes were too tight.
It could be his head wasn't screwed on just right.
But I think that the most likely reason of all
May have been that his heart was two sizes too small.
But, whatever the reason, his heart or his shoes,
He stood there on Christmas Eve hating the Whos,
Staring down from his cave with a sour, Grinchy frown
At the warm lighted windows below in their town,
For he knew every Who down in Whoville beneath
Was busy now hanging a hollywho wreath.
"And they're hanging their stockings," he snarled with a sneer.
"Tomorrow is Christmas! It's practically here!"
Then he growled, with his Grinch fingers nervously drumming,
"I must find some way to keep Christmas from coming!
For, tomorrow, I know all those Who girls and boys
Will wake bright and early. They'll rush for their toys!
And then! Oh, the noise! Oh, the noise! Noise! Noise! Noise!
There's one thing I hate! All the NOISE! NOISE! NOISE! NOISE!
And they'll shriek squeaks and squeals racing round on their wheels.
They'll dance with Jing-Tinglers tied onto their heels.
They'll blow their Floo-Floobers.
They'll bang their Tah-Tinkers.
They'll blow their Who-Hoobers.
They'll bang their Gah-Ginkers.
They'll beat their Trum-Tookers.
They'll slam their Sloo-Slonkers.
They'll beat their Blum-Blookers.
They'll wham their Who-Wonkers.
And they'll play noisy games like Zoo Zitta Ka Zay...
A roller-skate type of lacrosse and croquet.
And then they'll make earsplitting noises deluxe
On their great big Electro Who-Cardio Shluxe.
Then the Whos, young and old, will sit down to a feast.
And they'll feast, and they'll feast.
And they'll feast, feast, feast.
They'll feast on Who-pudding and rare Who-roast-beast.
Oh, roast beast is a feast I can't stand in the least.
And then they'll do something I hate most of all.
Every Who down in Who-ville, the tall and the small...
Will stand close together with Christmas bells ringing.
They'll stand hand in hand, and those Whos will start singing.
Copyright: Lyrics © Original Writer and Publisher
Boris Karloff - Welcome Christmas
[ Featuring The M-G-M Studio Orchestra, The M-G-M Studio Chorus ]
Welcome Christmas come this way
Fahoo fores dahoo dores
Welcome Christmas, Christmas day
Welcome, welcome fahoo ramus
Welcome, welcome dahoo damus
Christmas day is in our grasp
So long as we have hands to clasp
Fahoo fores dahoo dores
Welcome Christmas bring your cheer
Fahoo fores dahoo dores
Welcome all Whos far and near
Welcome Christmas, fahoo ramus
Welcome Christmas, dahoo damus
Christmas day will always be
Just so long as we have we
Fahoo fores dahoo dores
Welcome Christmas bring your light
Fahoo fores dahoo dores
Welcome Christmas, Christmas day
Welcome Christmas, fahoo ramus
Welcome Christmas, dahoo damus
Welcome Christmas while we stand
Heart to heart and hand in hand
Fahoo fores dahoo dores
Welcome welcome Christmas day
Welcome, welcome Christmas day
Writer: Theodor S. Geisel, Albert Hague
Copyright: Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Copyright: Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Boris Karloff - I Must Stop Christmas
[ Featuring The M-G-M Studio Orchestra, The M-G-M Studio Chorus ]
And the more the Grinch thought of this Who-Christmas sing
The more the Grinch thought "I must stop this whole thing!
Why for fifty-three years I've put up with it now!
I must stop Christmas from coming!" But how?
Then he got an idea! An awful idea!
The Grinch got a wonderful, awful idea!
"I know just what to do!" The Grinch laughed in his throat
"I'll make a quick Santy Claus hat and a coat!"
He chuckled and clucked "What a great Grinchy trick!
With this coat and this hat, I'll look just like Saint Nick."
Copyright: Lyrics © Original Writer and Publisher
Thurl Ravenscroft - You're A Mean One, Mr. Grinch
[ Featuring Boris Karloff ]
You're a mean one, Mr. Grinch
You really are a heel
You're as cuddly as a cactus
You're as charming as an eel
Mr. Grinch
You're a bad banana with a
Greasy black peel
You're a monster, Mr. Grinch
Your heart's an empty hole
Your brain is full of spiders
You've got garlic in your soul
Mr. Grinch
I wouldn't touch you with a
Thirty-nine-and-a-half foot pole
You're a vile one, Mr. Grinch
You have termites in your smile
You have all the tender sweetness
Of a seasick crocodile
Mr. Grinch
Given the choice between the two of you
I'd take the seasick crocodile
You're a foul one, Mr. Grinch
You're a nasty, wasty skunk
Your heart is full of unwashed socks
Your soul is full of gunk
Mr. Grinch
The three words that best describe you are as follows
And I quote, "Stink, stank, stunk"
You're a rotter, Mr. Grinch
You're the king of sinful sots
Your heart's a dead tomato splotch
With moldy purple spots
Mr. Grinch
Your soul is an appalling dump heap
Overflowing with the most disgraceful assortment
Of deplorable rubbish imaginable
Mangled up in tangled up knots
You nauseate me, Mr. Grinch
With a nauseous super-naus
You're a crooked jerky jockey
And you drive a crooked horse
Mr. Grinch
You're a three-decker sauerkraut and toadstool sandwich
With arsenic sauce
Writer: Albert Hague, Theodor S. Geisel
Copyright: Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Copyright: Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Thurl Ravenscroft - You're A Mean One, Mr. Grinch (Reprise)
[ Featuring Boris Karloff ]
You're a vile one, Mr. Grinch
You have termites in your smile
You have all the tender sweetness
Of a seasick crocodile, Mr. Grinch
Given the choice between the two of you, I'd take the seasick crocodile
You're a rotter, Mr. Grinch
You're the king of sinful sots
Your heart's a dead tomato splotch
With moldy purple spots
Mr. Grinch
You're a three-decker sauerkraut and toadstool sandwich
With arsenic sauce
Then he slunk to the ice box.
He took the Whos' feast,
He took the who pudding,
He took the roast beast.
He cleaned out that ice box as quick as a flash
Why, that Grinch even took their last can of Who hash."
Then he stuffed all the food up the chimney with glee
"I'll grin the Grinch, I will stuff up the tree"
As the Grinch took the tree as he started to shove it
He heard a small sound, like the coo of a dove
He turned around fast and he saw a small who
Little Cindy Lou who, who was no more than two
She stared at the grinch and said
"Santy Claus why, why are you taking our Christmas tree? why?"
But you know that old Grinch was so smart and so slick
He thought up a lie and he thought it up quick
"Hi my sweet little tart" the fake Santy Claus lied
"There's a light on this tree
That won't light on one side
So i'm taking it home to my workshop my dear
I'll fix it up there then i'll bring it back here"
And his fib fooled the child, then he patted her head
And he got her a drink and he sent her to bed
And when Cindy Lou who was in bed with her cup
He crumped to the chimney and stuffed the tree up
Then he went up the chimney himself, the old liar
And the last thing he took was the log for their fire
On their walls he left nothing but hooks and some wire
And the one speck of food that he left in the house
Was a crumb that was even too small for a mouse
Then he did the same thing to the other Who's houses
Leaving crumbs much too small for the other Who's mouses
You nauseate me, Mr. Grinch
With a nauseous super-naus
You're a crooked jerky jockey
And you drive a crooked horse
Mr. Grinch
Your soul is an appalling dump heap
Overflowing with the most disgraceful assortment
Of deplorable rubbish imaginable
Mangled up in tangled up knots
You're a foul one, Mr. Grinch
You're a nasty, wasty skunk
Your heart is full of unwashed socks
Your soul is full of gunk
Mr. Grinch
The three words that best describe you are as follows
And I quote, "Stink, stank, stunk"
Writer: Albert Hague, Theodor S. Geisel
Copyright: Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Copyright: Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Boris Karloff - A Quarter of Dawn
[ Featuring The M-G-M Studio Orchestra, The M-G-M Studio Chorus ]
It was quarter of dawn. All the Whos still a-bed
All the Whos still a-snooze, when he packed up his sled
Packed it up with their presents, their ribbons, their wrappings
Their snoof and their fuzzles, their tringlers and trappings!
Ten thousand feet up, up the side of Mount Crumpet
He rode with his load to the tiptop to dump it!
"Pooh-pooh to the Whos!" he was grinchily humming
"They're finding out now that no Christmas is coming!
They're just waking up! I know just what they'll do!
Their mouths will hang open a minute or two
Then the Whos down in Whoville will all cry boo-hoo!
That's a noise," grinned the Grinch, "that I simply must hear!"
He paused, and the Grinch put a hand to his ear
And he did hear a sound rising over the snow
Copyright: Lyrics © Original Writer and Publisher
Boris Karloff - Welcome Christmas (Reprise)
[ Featuring The M-G-M Studio Orchestra, The M-G-M Studio Chorus ]
Fahwho foraze, dahwho doraze
Welcome Christmas, come this way
Fahwho foraze, dahwho doraze
Welcome Christmas, Christmas day
Welcome, welcome fahwho rahmoos
Welcome, welcome dahwho dahmoos
Christmas day is in our grasp
So long as we have hands to clasp
Fahwho foraze, dahwho doraze
Welcome Christmas, bring your cheer
Fahwho foraze, dahwho doraze
Welcome all who's far and near
Welcome Christmas, fahwho rahmoos
Welcome Christmas,dahwho dahmoos
Christmas day will always be
Just so long as we have we
Fahwho foraze, dahwho doraze
Welcome Christmas, bring your light
Welcome Christmas, fahwho rahmoos
Welcome Christmas, dahwho dahmoos
Welcome Christmas, while we stand
Heart to heart and hand in hand
Fahwho foraze, dahwho doraze
Welcome, welcome Christmas, Christmas day
Writer: Theodor S. Geisel, Albert Hague
Copyright: Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Copyright: Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
MGM Studio Orchestra - Finale
[ Featuring The MGM Studio Chorus, Boris Karloff ]
And what happened then? Well, in Whoville they say
That the Grinch's small heart grew three sizes that day!
And then the true meaning of Christmas came through
And the Grinch found the strength of ten Grinches, plus two!
And now that his heart didn't feel quite so tight
He whizzed with his load through the bright morning light
With a smile to his soul, he descended Mount Crumpet
Cheerily blowing "Who! Who!" on his trumpet
He rode into Whoville. He brought back their toys
He brought back their floof to the Who girls and boys
He brought back their snoof and thеir tringlers and fuzzles
Brought back their pantookas, thеir dafflers and wuzzles
He brought everything back, all the food for the feast!
And he, he himself, the Grinch carved the roast beast!
Welcome Christmas. Bring your cheer
Cheer to all Whos, far and near
Christmas Day is in our grasp
So long as we have hands to grasp
Christmas Day will always be
Just as long as we have we
Welcome Christmas while we stand
Heart to heart and hand in hand
Writer: Dorothy Fields, Jerome Kern, Jimmy McHugh
Copyright: Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Reservoir Media Management, Inc.
Copyright: Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Reservoir Media Management, Inc.
How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (also known as Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas!) is a 1966 American animated television special, directed and co-produced by Chuck Jones. Based on the 1957 children's book of the same name by Dr. Seuss, the special features the voice of Boris Karloff (also a narrator) as the Grinch. It tells the story of the Grinch, who tries to ruin Christmas for the townsfolk of Whoville below his mountain hideaway.
How the Grinch Stole Christmas! was produced by The Cat in the Hat Productions in association with the television and animation divisions of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios (the company that Jones was under contract at the time). The special completed production in a year and originally aired in the United States on CBS on Sunday, December 18, 1966. The special is considered a perennial holiday special.
All tracks were narrated by Boris Karloff and performed by the MGM Studio Orchestra. Most of the songs were performed by the MGM Studio Chorus, with the exceptions of "You're A Mean One, Mr. Grinch" and "You're A Mean One, Mr. Grinch (Reprise)", performed by Thurl Ravenscroft.
Genre(s):
Soundtrack, Christmas How the Grinch Stole Christmas! was produced by The Cat in the Hat Productions in association with the television and animation divisions of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios (the company that Jones was under contract at the time). The special completed production in a year and originally aired in the United States on CBS on Sunday, December 18, 1966. The special is considered a perennial holiday special.
All tracks were narrated by Boris Karloff and performed by the MGM Studio Orchestra. Most of the songs were performed by the MGM Studio Chorus, with the exceptions of "You're A Mean One, Mr. Grinch" and "You're A Mean One, Mr. Grinch (Reprise)", performed by Thurl Ravenscroft.
Released: December 18th, 1966
Year: 1966