“Walt Kelly's
Pogo comic strip stopped publishing in 1975, but the spoof Christmas carol ‘Deck Us All With Boston Charlie’ deserves to live on. Kelly's version of the song, mixes winks towards Shakespeare with malapropisms and just straight up gibberish to make one of the weirdest Christmas tunes of the Groovy era. The song became a tradition in
Pogo, with Kelly always working some version of it into the comic strip during the lead-up to Christmas. ‘Deck Us All With Boston Charlie’ has six verses, and has been published in several songbooks featuring music from
Pogo. ...”
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