Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen,
Comet and Cupid and Donner and Blitzen,
but do you recall the most famous reindeer of all?

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, had a very shiny nose.
And if you ever saw it, you would 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.


The famous Christmas song Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer started as a poem created by an American advertising executive named Robert May. He was requested to produce a poem that could be given to children by the Santa Claus at Montgomery Ward Department Store at Christmas! This marketing ploy was a massive success and approximately 2.5 million Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer poems were given away in the first year of its publication! Johnny Marks, May's brother-in-law, decided to adapt May's story into a song, which through the years has been recorded by many artists.


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