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Violent 'Rudolph' lyrics among holiday songs
 packet handed out by teacher 
 Copyright © 1998 Nando Media
 Copyright © 1998 The Associated Press 
 EVERETT, Mass. (December 9, 1998 09:57 a.m. EST 
 http://www.nandotimes.com) -- An elementary school teacher gave children a
 copy of altered lyrics to "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" in which
 Santa asks a gunman to shoot his wife.
 The lyrics were included in a packet of Christmas songs given out by
 an unidentified teacher at Devens Elementary School last week.
 The song, renamed "Deadeye the Two-Gun Slinger," included the
 lyric: "Then one foggy Christmas Eve, Santa came to say, "Deadeye
 with your gun so bright, won't you shoot my wife tonight?"
 Theresa Schuesler complained to school officials after her husband
 heard their 8-year-old son singing the song last week, and was
 shocked to find out the boy got it in class.
 "This song is wrong," she said. "This song is so bad it should never
 have gone out."
 School Superintendent Frederick Foresteire said the teacher would
 be "written up" by the principal, but he did not think an apology or
 explanation to the children was necessary.
 "It's going to compound it more," he said


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