Mrs. Duck--which bit was he saying didn't happen? Informal, impromptu Christmas truces like the song describes did happen in 1914, along both the Eastern and Western fronts. Photographs and numerous first-hand oral accounts exist. The football match is unproven, but shows up in many accounts, though the accounts apparently don't agree as to the winner. So I guess you can call that part "legend," but I don't think anyone can say with any degree of certainty that it just didn't happen.

Unfortunately, if people are claiming that no Christmas truce happened, the boys who lived through it are no longer alive to refute them.....

Chris

[p.s., if there's a Joe Clone to clean up my lyrics' lack of line breaks in the post above, I'd greatly appreciate it. Haven't posted lyrics in a while....]