"Treat!" the costumed children beg

This is one of my favorite Christmas songs.

"Or it'll be your house we egg!

Peace on homes that give us sweets

To all the rest toilet sheets"

Joyful, all ye younglings rise

who have gotten that they prize

With an impish voice proclaim:

"May your pumpkins stay aflame"

"Treat!" the costumed children beg

"Or it'll be your house we egg!

Twix by many youth adored

Chocolate that is shaped as gourd!

Reese's cups behold them come

Fistfuls of some Dum and Dums

Veiled in wrapper Halloween

Hail all confections you can see

Pleased as be with time to go

Candy, gives sug'ry glow

"Treat!" the costumed children beg

"Or it'll be your house we egg!

Hail the king-sized bars of tell!

At you we will raise no Hell!

Trick or treat to all we bring

Smile with face paint and with wing

Glad we stay, our candy stash

Else your pumpkins we may smash

Soon to end toothsome roam

Soon to tire and return home

"Treat!" the costumed children beg

"Or it'll be your house we egg!

(Prompt by me)

"Halloween at the White House 2019!" by The White House

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