Sorry, but "Christmas in the Trenches" is by John McCutcheon, not John McWhatshisnameyousaid. Very good song, but the thrust is not the sadness of Christmas & New Year (there are theories as to why people get morose at that time -- my favorite is the length of the daylight one). The story (a true one) is of a "fraternization with the enemy" which took place in WWI ("The War to End All Wars," an ironic title if there ever was one).