Favourite Holiday Songs

[no yu begin wher i end]

So, what's your favourite holiday/Christmas/Kwanzaa etc. song? Mine is 'Fairytale of New York' by the Pogues:

 

It was Christmas Eve babe

In the drunk tank

An old man said to me, won't see another one

And then he sang a song

The Rare Old Mountain Dew

I turned my face away

And dreamed about you

 

Got on a lucky one

Came in eighteen to one

I've got a feeling

This year's for me and you

So happy Christmas

I love you baby

I can see a better time

When all our dreams come true

 

They've got cars big as bars

They've got rivers of gold

But the wind goes right through you

It's no place for the old

When you first took my hand

On a cold Christmas Eve

You promised me

Broadway was waiting for me

 

You were handsome

You were pretty

Queen of New York City

When the band finished playing

They howled out for more

Sinatra was swinging,

All the drunks they were singing

We kissed on a corner

Then danced through the night

 

The boys of the NYPD choir

Were singing "Galway Bay"

And the bells were ringing out

For Christmas day

 

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 faggot

Happy Christmas your arse

I pray God it's our last

 

The boys of the NYPD choir

Still singing "Galway Bay"

And the bells were ringing out

For Christmas day

 

I could have been someone

Well so could anyone

You took my dreams from me

When I first found you

I kept them with me babe

I put them with my own

Can't make it all alone

I've built my dreams around you

 

The boys of the NYPD choir

Still singing "Galway Bay"

And the bells were ringing out

For Christmas day

[Muran]

Baby, It's Cold Outside <3

[ben is a sandwich]

hawksley workman's "almost a full moon" might be them second best christmas-type album ever.

 

the first is "a charlie brown christmas"

 

i could listen to that shit no matter what the season, i tells ya.

[Some Random]

i loathe holiday songs. i can sit through no use for a name's cover of the above mentioned pogues song, but i usually skip over it.

[soundless_space]

My number one holiday song is Father Christmas by Greg Lake. It's sort of the atheist's Christmas song.

 

EDIT: Lyrics, for anyone who hasn't heard it:

 

They said there'll be snow at Christmas

They said there'll be peace on earth

But instead it just kept on raining

A veil of tears for the virgin birth.

 

I remember one Christmas morning

A winter's light and the distant choir

And the peal of a bell and that Christmas tree smell

Eyes full a tinsel and fire.

 

They sold me a dream of Christmas

They sold me a silent night

They told me a fairy story

Till I believed in the Israelite.

 

And I believed in Father Christmas

I looked to the sky with excited eyes

Than I woke with a yawn in the first light of dawn

And I saw him through his disguise.

 

I wish you a hopeful Christmas

I wish you a brave new year

All anguish, pain, and sadness

Leave your heart and let your road be clear.

 

They said there'd be snow at Christmas

They said there'd be peace on earth.

Hallelujah, Noel, Be it heaven or hell,

The Christmas we get we deserve.

Edited December 23, 2006 by soundless_space

[Prometheon]

I've always just loved the 'classic' ones. Santa Clause is Coming to Town (particularly the Bruce Springstein version), Rudolph, etc.

[saturnine]

type o negative - red water (christmas mourning)

 

Wake up, it's Christmas mourn

Those loved has long since gone

The stockings are hung but who cares

Preserved for those no longer there

Six feet beneath me sleep

 

Black lights hang from the tree

Accents of dead holly

 

Whoa mistletoe

(It's growing cold)

I'm seeing ghosts

(I'm drinking old)

Red water

Red water

Red water chase them away

 

My table's been set for but seven

Just last year I dined with eleven

God damn ye merry gentlemen

 

Whoa mistletoe

(It's growing cold)

I'm seeing ghosts

(I'm drinking old)

Red water

Red water

Red water chase them away

[sodamntired]

oldie would have to be "it's beginning to look at lot like christmas"

 

newer is Richard Cheese - Christmas In Las Vegas

[Dan #3]

I hate most Christmas music, as tends to happen when you've worked at a retail store. However, anything sung by Louis Armstrong of Nat King Cole is a win in my book.

[Ravenous megin-sane]

i LOVE christmas music! nearly all of it.

[borntohula]

i'm a fan of "fairytale in new york," "2000 miles" (the pretenders/coldplay), "little drum machine boy" (beck), and "hey parker, its christmas!" (ryan adams). all great ones.

[shade]

They sold me a dream of Christmas

They sold me a silent night

They told me a fairy story

Till I believed in the Israelite.

 

And I believed in Father Christmas

I looked to the sky with excited eyes

Than I woke with a yawn in the first light of dawn

And I saw him through his disguise.

I dig this track. Kind of anti-christmas so to speak.

Edited December 24, 2006 by shade