Perry Como
Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer (1953 Version)
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Had a very shiny nose
And if you ever saw it
You could even say it glows
All of the other reindeer
Used to laugh and call him names;
They never let poor Rudolph
Join in any reindeer games

Then one foggy Christmas Eve
Santa came to say:
"Rudolph with your nose so bright
Won't you guide my sleigh tonight?"
Then how the reindeer loved him
As they shouted out with glee
"Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
You'll go down in history."

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You know Dasher an' Dancer
An' Prancer an' Vixen
Comet an' Cupid, an' Donner an' Blitzen
But do you recall
The most famous reindeer of all?

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Then one foggy Christmas Eve
Santa came to say:
"Why, Rudolph with your nose so bright
Won't you guide my sleigh tonight?"
Then how the reindeer loved him
As they shouted out with glee
"Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
You'll go down, down, down, down, down
In history."

Johnny Marks , 1949