Lexington, KY, native Elmo Shropshire is better known as Dr. Elmo, the whimsical character who has sold more than eleven million copies of the holiday novelty song 'Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer.'
After earning a veterinary medicine degree at Auburn University, Dr. Elmo was a veterinarian at Aqueduct, Belmont Park and Saratoga racetracks in New York. He later moved to San Francisco's Bay Area to open his own animal hospital and while moonlighting playing festivals and clubs in a bluegrass band.
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GCadd9 CHORUS Grandma got run over by a reindeer GCadd9 walking home from our house Christmas Eve GD You can say theres no such thing as santa GDG but as for me and grandpa we believe
Em7D She'd been drinking too much egg nog Em7G and we warned her not to go Em7Cadd9 but she forgot her medication GDG and she wandered out the door into the snow
When we found her Christmas morning
at the scene of the attack
there were hoofprints on her forehead
and incriminating claw marks on her back
CHORUS It's not Christmas without grandma
all the familys dressed in black
and we just cant help but wonder
should we open up her gifts or send them back !
CHORUS Now were all so proud of grandpa
he's been taking this so well
see him in there watching football
drinking beer and playing cards with cousin mel
CHORUS Now the goose is on the table
and the pudding made of fig
and the blue and silver candles
that would just have matched the hair in grandmas wig
CHORUS I've warned all my friends and neighbors
better watch out for your selfs
they should never give a license
to a man who dirves a sleigh and plays with elfs ! CHORUS