What’s your favourite Christmas song?

A just-for-fun 'poll' of the songs that get you in the mood to celebrate Christmas

David Buckley

 

Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay

 

So, what’s the song that, when you hear it, gets you in the festive mood? The one that gets you up to dance at a party, or ready to eat too much, or makes you look forward to spending quality time with friends and/or family?

 

A few days ago, I revealed that two such songs for me are It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year by Andy Williams and Driving Home for Christmas by Chris Rea. But there are many others that spring to mind without needing to look them up.

 

I could have named John Lennon’s Happy Xmas, War is Over; Slade’s Merry Christmas Everybody; Maria Carey’s I Don’t Want a Lot for Christmas (though my favourite version is featured below); Wizzard’s I Wish it Could be Christmas Every Day; Band Aid’s Do They Know it’s Christmas?; George Michael’s Last Christmas; Nat King Cole’s The Christmas Song; and last, but by no means least White Christmas by Bing Crosby. I’m sure you could name many more.

 

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Ginger Ben

???? While shepherds washed their socks by night...

All seated round the tub...

An angel of the Lord came down ...

And took them to the pub.????

All of Phil Spector's 1963 album "A Christmas Gift To You" 

20 minutes ago, champers said:

???? While shepherds washed their socks by night...

All seated round the tub...

An angel of the Lord came down ...

And took them to the pub.????

????we three kings from orient are,

one in a taxi, one in a car,

one on a scooter beeping his hooter,

smoking a big cigar.????

I hate them all, but especially Jingle Bells, which seems to be the only song Big C and Tesco know.  Its intensely irritating to put up with for 3 months,  as they never seem to know when its time to stop playing the damn thing. . 

It is cartoon song about elves, rudolph and reindeers that are working for father Christmas,  but wouldn't be allowed to play it on here. ????

‘Little Drummer Boy’ by Jimi Hendrix

'Ludop ta led node lanedeer'

BAH HUMBUG!!!

'It'll be Lonely This Christmas'...Mud.    Especially for those Families that have their Man stuck in some far off Land thanks to Covid Paranoia in Thailand !

Boleaux! ????

 

 

Fairytail of New York.

The best lyrics.

You're a bum
You're a punk
You're an old slut on junk
Lying there almost dead on a drip in that bed
You scumbag, you maggot
You cheap lousy <deleted>
Happy Christmas your <deleted>
I pray God it's our last

 

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Bah humbug...!!! ????

Jingle smells.

This one and it was a good starter to get me in the mood for the holidays but four years of Trump and the years of the Thai military regimes has destroyed my happiness mostly.

 

 

3 hours ago, ThaIrish Sean said:

Fairytail of New York.

The best lyrics.

You're a bum
You're a punk
You're an old slut on junk
Lying there almost dead on a drip in that bed
You scumbag, you maggot
You cheap lousy <deleted>
Happy Christmas your <deleted>
I pray God it's our last

 

So we  cannot have the word for a bundle of iron rods bound together or a ball of seasoned chopped liver. Hmmmmm.    LOL.

Please Come Home For Christmas 

by Charles Brown

One of the best, and there’s good covers of the song too

Blue Christmas by Elvis. I liked Elvis pre army, but later... nah. Great little tune

 

 

 

 

Somchai got run over by a reindeer..

 

Word has it Rudolph had too much lao kao......and is currently in police custody until santa stuffs the envelope

39 minutes ago, Andrew Dwyer said:

Hoping for a golden bum gun this year from Santa.....just watch the pressure  -dont blow out your O ring! ????

Not a song, but I want upbeat holiday tunes, not muzak.

 

 

Silent Night!  While at University in the ROTC Corps of Cadets I had to sing it to the upper classmen. All the freshmen in my outfit were request (required) to sing carols to the dorm. (I just happened to be in the "Singing Cadets" club).

 

And, as a tribute to the solders of WW1, who laid down their arms and met between the trenches, I sang it in German, too. 

 

What a great memory. Thank you for this subject. I hadn't thought about that in years.

17 hours ago, faraday said:

Ginger Ben

It has to be Stop the Cavalry by Jona Lewie ????

Ah , Dingen Ben , every year outside Tesco Lotus is this fat blown up lump. He has been wallowing there for about a week now.  I asked my wife would it upset anyone if I stuck a pin in his fat gut and let his air out.   ' Hark the hairy angels suck '  Now that would be different.

In Lotus you hear the kids and mum , ' I want this , I want that , I must have this '  Then there are the kids ................

Madonna. Material Girl 

Fairytale of New York.....