Submission (#1687) Approved

The snow is falling slowly outside the window of Cătălin's house. The snake terra was covered with the warmest clothes he had, wanting to protect his scales from the icy temperature. He couldn't help but be grumpy, though Christmas had been helping him recover his happiness, specially thanks to the job he had at hands.

Cătălin often helped in the library, thanks to the fact that he was basically a genius, he could help organize and recommend books to other terraliens as he had read everything in the public library.

It was in one of those days when a terra had come to him, telling him he had found a very old book in a box.

Cătălin, intrigued, had taken the book with him back to his home to investigate and analyze its contents. To his surprise, it turned out to be a diary of someone who had lived a long time ago, and who was describing what they had been doing during winter, including the holidays.

It had been really interesting to read about Christmas customs that were so different from the ones that Cătălin followed.

But his biggest surprise came when he found in the diary a music sheet, containing the notes and lyrics of a self made Christmas song.

And the snake terra couldn't wait to attempt to sing and play it. He had been learning to play it on the piano for the past five days and he had finally managed to learn the song, but now it was time for him to add the lyrics to the music.

Cătălin walks up to his piano and he gets ready, he had already altered his sensors to allow him to reproduce the voice in his mind in a audible way, so he already had practice with singing.

His voice is joyful and melodic, pretty quiet but still pleasant to hear as he sings the lyrics while playing the piano:

“As the snowflakes fall down
And you wake up
Do you hear the bells ringing?
The best day of the holidays has come

Wrap your gifts,
Hug your friends,
Tell yourself it's a lovely day
Santa Claus is coming to town!

Maybe you haven't been too good
Maybe you were naughty too
Maybe you stole some cookies
Then worry not, because you deserve some coal

Wrap your gifts,
Hug your friends,
Tell yourself it's a lovely day
Santa Claus is coming to town!

Santa's coming to town!”

And the last note of the piano rings in the living room.

Cătălin can't help but laugh a little

“What a silly song, but it's so catchy” he chuckles.

After finding out how catchy and happy the song was, Cătălin thought about it and the next days decided:

“I'm going to speak to the radio, maybe they have someone that can sing this song professionally and share it”

And that's how a new jingle became a hit in Christmas.