Listen to We Could Try and Do It, Santa (feat. John DiMaggio, Jess Harnell, Rob Paulsen, Tress MacNeille, Roddy Hart & Thomas David Reilly) by Animaniacs

We Could Try and Do It, Santa (feat. John DiMaggio, Jess Harnell, Rob Paulsen, Tress MacNeille, Roddy Hart & Thomas David Reilly)

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Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS

Roddy Hart

Synthesizer

Thomas David Reilly

Thomas David Reilly

Synthesizer

Animaniacs

Performer

COMPOSITION & LYRICS

Roddy Hart

Composer

Thomas David Reilly

Thomas David Reilly

Composer

Lucas Crandles

Composer

Timothy Nash

Composer

PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING

Steve Lilly

Mastering Engineer

Mark Wike

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Lyrics

Well, we could try to do it, Santa, but without your magic ways

There's no way we'd fit eight billion presents in this tiny sleigh

We don't know how to make reindeer fly, and even if we did

It would take us weeks to ride from Puerto Rico to Madrid

Since we've only got one evening to deliver all these toys

To a billion different households full of parents, girls and boys

We would need an average sleigh speed of at least 12 miles per second

That's not counting bathroom breaks

Unless this sleigh's got a poop deck and I think-

Prancer and the others might burn up if we're that fast

Due to atmospheric drag just like a meteoric blast

‘Cause these speeds would mean these reindeer reach 3,000 Fahrenheit

They'd explode just moments into our inaugural Christmas flight!

And a sonic boom would work its way through Dasher, Donner, Dancer

Soon engulfing Cupid, Comet; Santa, this can't be the answer!

See the last thing that we'd wanna do is make the reindeer yelp!

We could try to do it, Santa

But we think we'd need your help!

Exploding reindeer is a risk I'm willing to take!

That's one cranky Kringle!

No! Bad Prancer!

We could try to do it, Santa, but for us three Christmas rookies

That's an awful lot of milk, and that's an awful lot of cookies

Let's assume four choc-chip biscuits and a pint of milk per house

That's 100,000 pounds of sugar! Only counting Laos

In Africa alone, the three of us would have to drink

600 million milky gallons, which is just enough, I think, to full up

Every single pool in Miami and Tallahassee

And Yakko can't drink milk at all, the lactose makes him gassy!

Before the night is out, each one of us will have knocked back

Roughly seven trillion calories, that's not including snacks

And our weight gain would be somewhere north of six quintillion tons

Which would make our bodies denser than the plasma in the sun

We'd implode upon ourselves, just like three mini neutron stars

Each exerting the same pull as the gravity of Mars

And our mass would tear the Earth into a million tiny shreds!

We could try to do it, Santa

But think you should go instead!

Okay, okay. Maybe you got a point

We could try to do it, Santa, but...

I see where this is going...

Without using mass surveillance, we would have no way of knowing

Which of all the girls and boys were nice, and which ones have been naughty

But the problem is this spying thing won't fly in federal court

See, we would need to put a wiretap on every single phone

And log every single web search, and pilot every drone

‘Till we had a constant feed of every single child on Earth

And with every single second, Santa, five more moms give birth!

See, there's just no way to spy on all those kids all by ourselves

So, we'd have to form an agency from all your worker elves

With a team of thousands; sure, maybe we could handle the load

Then, one would surely blow the whistle, though, our own elf Edward Snowden

Then, our crooked operation would collapse in on itself

And Vlad would gibe asylum to that loose-lipped little elf

And we'd take the fall, we're not above the law in any way

We could try to do it, Santa

But we're not the NSA!!!

Written by: Lucas Crandles, Roddy Hart, Thomas David Reilly, Timothy Nash

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