<P> According to Brooks , he played the song while sitting in with Elmo and Patsy at the Hyatt Lake Tahoe in December 1978 , and after the show they had him make a cassette of the song for them to learn . A year later , they were selling 45s of the song from the stage , with Elmo himself appearing in drag on the album cover as `` Grandma '' . </P>
<P> According to Brooks , he played the song while sitting in with Elmo and Patsy at the Hyatt Lake Tahoe in December 1978 , and after the show they had him make a cassette of the song for them to learn . A year later , they were selling 45s of the song from the stage , with Elmo himself appearing in drag on the album cover as `` Grandma '' . </P>
when was the song grandma got run over by a reindeer written
when was the song grandma got run over by a reindeer written
1978
1978