So long before those German folk invented Christmas trees.
That market was once cornered by those Jews, promotion seized.
Now Martin Luther sorted out, he called it Tannenbaum.
But simply said, a Christmas tree, whose trunk was coloured brown.

They draped it with some coloured things, with baubles, stars and things.
These folk would dance around that tree, just like the highland fling.
Two thousand years before all this God spoke to Jeremiah.
Who was the prophet of that time, who spread God's Holy fire.

God said there seems to be a fuss, pray tell me prophet dear.
They decorate this tree with things to me it isn't clear.
It has no legs, it cannot walk, they treat it like a pet.
They nail it to the wall, so pleased, much pleasure do they get.

2,000 years they'll prize this thing, gaze here and they will see.
I'm just as puzzled then as now, they call it 'Christmas tree.'