"Welcome Christmas" (also entitled "Fah Who Foraze, Dah Who Doraze") is the opening and closing song for the animated television Christmas special How the Grinch Stole Christmas, later used as the finale for the 2000 live-action remake, and again in the 2018 CGI adaptation.
It plays three times in the animated story: at the very beginning as a prologue, then during the Grinch's monologue in the traditional verse style of Dr. Seuss' books, and on Christmas morning, when the Grinch believes he has ruined Christmas for Whoville—but, in fact, they celebrate Christmas anyway, even though he stole all their presents, decorations, and food. It is also incorporated within the final few lines of the final stanza of the poem.
In the final scene of the 2000 movie, Cindy Lou Who intones the song after she discovers that the Grinch's icy heart has melted, and soon all of Whoville — excluding Mayor Augustus May Who, who has just recently had his engagement to Martha May Whovier broken because of her feelings for the Grinch — begin to join in. The Grinch (played by Jim Carrey) adds his own personal "twist" to the nonsense words by singing at first, "Fah Who Ray Moo, Yah Who Yee Haw".
In the 2018 CGI movie, the song's melody is incorporated into Christmas tree Lighting ceremony while the actual song itself is heard two times. It is first heard during the Grinch's flashbacks and again when the Whos gathered in a three-ring circle outlines next to the decorated tree when the Grinch hears them singing, but slightly altered to heard to him "Welcome home".
Since the 1990s up until present-day, the song has been included in Radio City Music Hall's Christmas Spectacular, before the show culminates and concludes with the story of the "One Solitary Life".
Lyrics[]
Fah Who foraze
Dah Who doraze
Welcome Christmas come this way
Fah Who foraze
Dah Who doraze
Welcome Christmas, Christmas Day
Welcome, Welcome
Fah Who Rah Moos
Welcome, Welcome
Dah Who Dah Moos
Christmas Day is in our grasp
So long as we have hands to clasp
Fah Who foraze,
Dah Who doraze
Welcome, Christmas, bring your cheer
Fah Who foraze
Dah Who doraze
Welcome, all Whos, far and near
Welcome, Christmas! Fah who rahmus!
Welcome, Christmas! Dah who dahmus!
Christmas Day will always be!
Just as long as we have we!
Fah who foraze! Dah who doraze!
Welcome Christmas! Bring your light!
[instrumental]
Welcome, Welcome
Fah Who Rah Moos
Welcome, Welcome
Dah Who Dah Moos
Christmas Day will always be
Just so long as we have we
Fah Who foraze
Dah Who doraze
Welcome Christmas, come this way
Fah Who foraze
Dah Who doraze
Welcome, Christmas, Christmas Day