Silver and Gold

Silver and Gold is a song sung by Sam the Snowman in the 1964 Rankin/Bass film Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.

It is performed by Burl Ives.

Lyrics

Silver and gold
Silver and gold
Everyone wishes for silver and gold
How do you measure its worth?
Just by the pleasure it gives here on Earth

Silver and gold
Silver and gold
Means so much more when I see
Silver and gold decorations
On every Christmas tree

(Speech heard on the album version)
What's a Christmas tree without tinsel and pretty silver and gold decorations? Can't really call it a Christmas tree, now can you? And think of all the fun and joy that would be lost on Christmas morning if all the young folks didn't get to see that sparkling, happy tree.

Silver and gold
Silver and gold
Means so much more when I see
Silver and gold decorations
On every Christmas tree

Trivia

Before it was decided for the film to have a narrator, Yukon Cornelius was originally meant to sing the song.