Afterward, Snoopy and the Red Baron fly their separate ways, "each knowing they'd meet on some other day".

The middle of the song is bridged by chimes ringing out a phrase from "Hark the Herald Angels Sing".

The album version of the song has a simulated radio news report of failed efforts at a Christmas truce, leading to Snoopy being sent out to hunt his sworn foe.

The song references the 1914 "Christmas truce" of World War I which was initiated not by German and British commanders, but by the soldiers themselves.

Trench-bound combatants exchanged small gifts across the lines, with Germans giving beer to the British, who sent tobacco and tinned meat back in return.