I Got A Rat For Christmas

by Gnarboots

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Recorded as a fundraiser for Kiddie Kampus Cooperative Preschool.

Any additional funds generated by this song will be donated to Kiddie Kampus.

Lyrics by Sara Phillipe (age 4)

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I got a rat for christmas
It was cute but it was bitey
I got a rat for christmas
It was cute but it was bitey
I got a rat for christmas
It was cute but it was bitey
But it was super bitey

The rat in the attic ate our gingerbread house
It was a bad little ratty
So I put it in the cats house
The rat in the attic ate our gingerbread house
So I put it in the cats house for the cat to eat

I got a rat for christmas
It was cute but it was bitey
I got a rat for christmas
It was cute but it was bitey
I got a rat for christmas
It was cute but it was bitey
But it was super bitey

I caught the rat cause he was cute
He was my pet, but he was so bitey!
I caught the rat cause he was cute
He was my pet, but he was so bitey!

I got a rat for christmas
It was cute but it was bitey
I got a rat for christmas
It was cute but it was bitey
I got a rat for christmas
It was cute but it was bitey
But it was super bitey

I'm a giant sewer rat that can eat a china dragon
In one gulp, I can eat a whole giraffe
And a bunch of butterflies
And a whole redwood tree
I am huge, I eat shoes

-Lyrics by Sara Phillipe (age 4)

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released December 24, 2015
Recorded & mixed by Ryan Christo @ House of Boogaloo

Rat Photo by Johanna Herbst

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