<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'><span style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br></span></span></span>Dear All,<br><br>Yes, here is yet another seasonal tune that I have ripped off to add gazer-appropriate words. This is something that I have been doing every year since posting "I'm Dreaming of a Mastiff Function" back in 1997. Some dyspeptic critics find my poetry wanting, but others are so starved for geyser-related activities that they belt out these songs unmindful of their strained rhymes. To the latter I send the following geyser carol along with my best wishes for a great year of geyser gazing in 2009.<br><br>Steve Gryc <br><span style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br></span></span><br>Silver Globes</span><br>(to the tune of “Silver Bells”)<br><br>Silver Globes, Silver Globes,<br>It’s gazing time in the basin.<br>Pool and Cave, please behave,<br>Soon it will be closing day.<br><br>Basin boardwalks, busy boardwalks,<br>Round with sinter all white<br>In the air there’s the sweet smell of brimstone.<br>Tourists shouting, gazers pouting<br>>From the dawn to the night<br>As they stare all day waiting to see,<br><br>Silver Globes, Silver Globes,<br>It’s gazing time in the basin.<br>Slit and Twin, please begin,<br>Soon it will be closing day.<br><br></div></body></html>