I’m preparing for a contra dance that I’m (partially) calling tomorrow night. Since it’s Boxing Day, I thought I ought to do at least one dance that includes a box the gnat. While googling “box the gnat contra,” I found a page on the Chattahoochee Country Dancers website which includes two Dr. Seuss takeoffs, “Green Legs and Jam” and “The Grinch who stole Contra”.

The box the gnat reference?

Perhaps you’d like to Box the Gnat?
Right hands, trade places, just like that
I do not want to Box the Gnat
Where’s the fun in something like that?

And from the Grinch:

All were glad to see him, Fiddler took up his bow
They said thank you Grinch and then don’t you know
They invited him in and asked him to dance
The Grinch thought, What the Hey, I’ll take a chance
So the Grinch joined the dancers and danced with delight
And they danced hand in hand late into the night.