Up on the housetop, then, dear, pause,
Do NOT go down through the chimney
Or Eva Jarvis would be a lost cause

Ho, ho ho! Who wouldn't go? Ho, ho ho! Who wouldn't go?
Up on the housetop, click, click, click
And fix the roof, quick, quick, quick

That’s Eva Jarvis, Class of 1974, who lives in Grant Town, supervising the re-roofing of her home.

"Up on the House Top" is a Christmas song written by Benjamin Hanby in 1864 in the town of New Paris, Ohio, which is in Preble County between the Indiana line and Dayton.

According to William Studwell in The Christmas Carol Reader, "Up on the House Top" was the second-oldest secular Christmas song, outdone only by "Jingle Bells", which was written in 1857 (although the latter was originally intended as a Thanksgiving song).

The inspiration for “Up on the Housetop” probably was Clement C. Moore's 1822 poem, "A Visit from St. Nicholas" (better known as "The Night Before Christmas").