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13 Nov 03 - 08:22 AM (#1053014) Subject: Your favourite Christmas song From: GUEST,Sooz(at work) If you were going to learn just one song to perform over the festive season which one would it be? I seem to half-learn two or three every year and then need to do lots of revision at this time of year. I thought that if I really learned one I would probably remember it! Problem - which song is it to be? |
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13 Nov 03 - 08:28 AM (#1053017) Subject: RE: Your favourite Christmas song From: GUEST,MMario it is a hard problem - my "favorite" tends to be whichever I am currently singing! The Huron Carol is a good one - but there are so many... |
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13 Nov 03 - 09:15 AM (#1053052) Subject: RE: Your favourite Christmas song From: Leadfingers My Christmas Set is Three songs,Tom Lehrer's Christmas Carol and two from Adrian May/ Chris Leger's christmas show - 'When Father was Pantomime Dame' and 'I Hate Christmas'.Me and Ebenexer Scrooge agree- Christmas ?? Humbug !! |
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13 Nov 03 - 09:44 AM (#1053072) Subject: RE: Your favourite Christmas song From: Padre The Wexford Carol: "Good people all, this Christmastide..." |
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13 Nov 03 - 10:07 AM (#1053088) Subject: RE: Your favourite Christmas song From: Louie Roy It is hard to beat Silver Bells |
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13 Nov 03 - 10:10 AM (#1053094) Subject: RE: Your favourite Christmas song From: Jack the Sailor Pretty Paper Silent Night Grandma Got Runned over... Soo many!!! |
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13 Nov 03 - 10:23 AM (#1053103) Subject: RE: Your favourite Christmas song From: Chris in Wheaton White Christmas lays out nice in G for finger-picking and everybody likes to sing along. and don't forget Hot Buttered Rum - I like Rosalie's version best My favorite Xmas/holiday record is Reilly and Maloney's. Chris in Wheaton |
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13 Nov 03 - 12:24 PM (#1053180) Subject: RE: Your favourite Christmas song From: Menolly My favourite at the moment is "Season of Peace" by Si Kahn, closely followed by "Gaudete" |
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13 Nov 03 - 12:27 PM (#1053182) Subject: RE: Your favourite Christmas song From: GUEST,MMario Then there's the 'Boar's Head Carol' and "Go tell it on the Mountain" and "Rise up Shepherd" and "Children go where I send thee" and ... |
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13 Nov 03 - 03:12 PM (#1053265) Subject: RE: Your favourite Christmas song From: GUEST Cherry Tree Carol. Ancient, but with a characterization of men that resonates with contemporary listeners |
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13 Nov 03 - 03:18 PM (#1053270) Subject: RE: Your favourite Christmas song From: mg if I were a performer I would do Christmas Rose (with some partners) and Jesu Bambino...I would never ever do Lo How a Rose..oh my did they make us sing a wretched version of that in high school...maybe a bluegrass type of arrangement would be OK..it sure perked up how can I keep from singing..but I like most of the standards..O Little Town of Bethlehem etc. There is some classical song from somewhere..Maria et Joseph et infantatum positum in precepio...very pretty..of course Adeste Fideles..I have never heard Catholics do Panis Angelicus for Christmas...and we sing a different tune (or used to) just for regular occasions...really good singers doing Angels we have heard on high...I remember a bunch of drunk geologists doing Silent Night in full throttle once..very moving.. mg |
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13 Nov 03 - 04:19 PM (#1053295) Subject: RE: Your favourite Christmas song From: GUEST,Tunesmith "In the Bleak Mid-Winter" is my favourite. Strangely, this song somehow passed me by in my younger days. I was first made aware of it by the singing of Barbara Dickson in the great play " John, Paul, George, Ringo and Bert" by the wonderful Willy Russell ( he used to perform in folk clubs). |
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13 Nov 03 - 04:26 PM (#1053299) Subject: RE: Your favourite Christmas song From: DonMeixner Are we talking popular songs or Christmas carols or either one? Don |
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13 Nov 03 - 04:36 PM (#1053305) Subject: RE: Your favourite Christmas song From: mack/misophist Lyke Wake Dirge |
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13 Nov 03 - 04:42 PM (#1053310) Subject: RE: Your favourite Christmas song From: Amergin santa bloody claus... hey santa claus you cunt where's me fucking bike? i'm the man who slits the turkey's throats at christmas. |
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13 Nov 03 - 04:52 PM (#1053316) Subject: RE: Your favourite Christmas song From: s6k santa clause wheres my bike... lol.. Id go for John Lennon - Happy XMas |
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13 Nov 03 - 08:46 PM (#1053447) Subject: RE: Your favourite Christmas song From: GUEST,Ely "Hot Buttered Rum" if that counts, and the Carol of the Bells (or whatever it's called; my fourth-grade teacher called it the Ukranian Bell Carol but nobody seems to know what I'm talking about when I call it that). |
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13 Nov 03 - 08:58 PM (#1053452) Subject: RE: Your favourite Christmas song From: Bill D for just musical taste, I like to hear the grandeur of "Oh Holy Night"...for general listening, I have an old tape of a radio program of British/Celtic carols and songs that are not your usual fare. (I ought to go find it and write down what's on it) ...and, as you might expect, I also like Frankie Armstrong's "Anti-Carol" |
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13 Nov 03 - 09:00 PM (#1053453) Subject: RE: Your favourite Christmas song From: DonMeixner Bill, Oh Holy Night is the song I measure the soloists by. My favorite Christmas Anthem. I also Like Oh, Come Emmanuel. Don |
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13 Nov 03 - 09:06 PM (#1053457) Subject: RE: Your favourite Christmas song From: Bill D and here are the words and an MP3 of "Anti-Carol" sung by a fellow named Ben Weiss, who does a lot of other stuff! |
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13 Nov 03 - 09:44 PM (#1053483) Subject: RE: Your favourite Christmas song From: The Fooles Troupe 'When Father was Pantomime Dame' and 'I Hate Christmas' sound like two interesting songs I would like to have... Robin |
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13 Nov 03 - 10:02 PM (#1053497) Subject: RE: Your favourite Christmas song From: mg check out Capri-Uni's solstice song that she wrote last year...it should be in the search. mg |
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13 Nov 03 - 11:06 PM (#1053528) Subject: RE: Your favourite Christmas song From: Kudzuman "Down in Yon Forest","Quem Pastores","Christ was Born in Bethelehem","Noel Nouvelet", and so many more. It's not a religious thing at all, but I can do without the modern songs, especially the gutter eighth grade humor kind. I love the season as a time of reflection and a time of stillness.....of course I haven't been to a Mall in about 15 years so I miss out on the crass commercialisation to some extent. Not disabled, just won't subject myself to the Mall mentality by choice. My shopping is finished for this year so I can relax and enjoy the season. Been doing that for about 15 years and I find it so much better that way. |
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13 Nov 03 - 11:09 PM (#1053530) Subject: RE: Your favourite Christmas song From: richlmo "Mary Did You Know", What a powerful song! "The Christmas Song", What a classic! "Little Sandy Sleighfoot",What an obscure memory from childhood! and "Christmas In Carolina" (The Squirrel Nut Zippers), What a Hoot!. I love Christmas music. |
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13 Nov 03 - 11:40 PM (#1053543) Subject: RE: Your favourite Christmas song From: Cluin One made from a poem I got from the internet a few years ago and adapted for song by altering it a bit and setting it to music: The Ballad of Scaly Otis, The Christmas Rat. But I always have to preface it when there are young kids around by saying it isn't true. Gave one of my nieces a nightmare once. |
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13 Nov 03 - 11:45 PM (#1053546) Subject: RE: Your favourite Christmas song From: PoppaGator At my mall-Santa job, I sometimes pick out carols and seasonal favorites on the one-octave toy xylophone during the rare moments when I'm not occupied with visitors. I don't sing, I just pick out the melodies. "Rudolph" is of course a big fave among the kids; I always start off with the introductory "verse" since one little guy insisted that I not leave it out. ("You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen / Comet and Cupid and Donder and Blitzen / But do you recall / the most famous reindeer of all?") "Joy to the World" fits perfectly in tht one little major-key octave. "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" (a personal favorite) can be faked, with a couple of notes "jumped" an octave, in the relative minor key (i.e, Am, assuming that the xylophone in tuned in C). But my far-and-away favorite, the one tune that almost always draws a fresh supply of little kids and young mothers, is "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus." This particular tune, far more than any other, really seems to have an immeidate effect whenever I play it -- I call it my "subliminal advertising." One slow Saturday morning last year, nice and early, before the masses descended upon us, I picked up my little mallet and got about two measures into this one when my photographer co-worker piped up: "Don't summon them!" I went ahead and called them on in; what the hell, Christmas comes but once a year, right? ************************ You traditionalists: anyone know this old one, that my late father passed along to us from his Irish-immigrant parents? "Christmas is coming / the goose is getting fat Who'll put a penny in the old man's hat? If you haven't got a penny, a ha'penny will do If you haven't got a ha'penny, God bless you!" |
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14 Nov 03 - 12:05 AM (#1053552) Subject: RE: Your favourite Christmas song From: GUEST,anastasia what is a good idea for buddhists to sing. I'm not against christmas, but does any one know any christmas songs that are more compataible with buddhism? |
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14 Nov 03 - 12:08 AM (#1053553) Subject: RE: Your favourite Christmas song From: Joybell I'm with the mystery Guest - "The Cherry Tree Carol". I love the image of Joseph being chastised by the unborn Baby Jesus! Poor man he just ventured to point out that the baby wasn't his. It was obviously on his mind and he was very pissed off! The other favourite of mine was also a great favourite of the Victorians - "The Mistletoe Bough". Creepy! |
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14 Nov 03 - 12:20 AM (#1053555) Subject: RE: Your favourite Christmas song From: GUEST,Mary Katherine Stan Rogers' "First Christmas Away From Home" and John McCutcheon's "Christmas In the Trenches." Mary Katherine |
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14 Nov 03 - 04:18 PM (#1053717) Subject: RE: Your favourite Christmas song From: Cluin Yeah, trot those two out when everyone's feeling too happy. Then do Jethro Tull's "A Christmas Song" or "Jack Frost and The Hooded Crow". |
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14 Nov 03 - 04:19 PM (#1053719) Subject: RE: Your favourite Christmas song From: Dramatist I love the 'Gloucestershire Wassail' (Wassail, wassail all over the town, Our toast it is white, our ale it is brown, Our bowl it is made of the white maple tree, With our wassailing bowl we'll drink health to thee.) My other standards - with guitar - are 'Silent Night' (which was originally composed for guitar), 'The Twelve days of Christmas', 'The Little Drummer Boy' and for a bit of frivolous fun, Tom Lehrer's 'Christmas Carol'. Jonathan. (UK) |
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15 Nov 03 - 06:51 AM (#1054042) Subject: RE: Your favourite Christmas song From: Sooz Thanks for all the suggestions! At the moment I'm torn between Christmas Eve 1914 and Fairy Tale of New York but I also love First Christmas and In the Bleak Midwinter. My brain won't cope with more than one - unless I take a leaf from my daughters book. When she was two and a half she learned Away in a Manger and when Christmas was over she realised how much effort had been expended so she sang the song regularly throughout the next year, usually when sitting in the pushchair, bored while we were queuing for something! |
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15 Nov 03 - 08:28 AM (#1054076) Subject: RE: Your favourite Christmas song From: Midchuck I'm afraid mine is "The Rebel Jesus," by Jackson Browne, I think. Peter. |
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15 Nov 03 - 09:29 AM (#1054098) Subject: RE: Your favourite Christmas song From: John P Cherry Tree Carol The Salutation of the Angel Personet Hodie The March of the Kings Entre le buef et l'ane gris Pat-a-pan Star of the East Veni, Veni Emanuel John Peekstok |
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15 Nov 03 - 03:28 PM (#1054271) Subject: RE: Your favourite Christmas song From: Firecat Not sure about traditional Christmas songs, but as far as I'm concerned, it's not Christmas till I've heard Wham!'s "Last Christmas" and Slade's "Merry Xmas Everybody"! Cheesy, I know, but that's the fun thing! |
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15 Nov 03 - 03:55 PM (#1054285) Subject: RE: Your favourite Christmas song From: Peace Silent Night is it for me. I also really enjoy (The First) Noel. And, Simon and Garfunkle's Silent Night with the radio overdub gets me in the pump. |
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16 Nov 03 - 01:07 AM (#1054535) Subject: RE: Your favourite Christmas song From: Jenny Islander PoppaGator--John Denver recorded "Christmas is Coming, the Goose is Getting Fat" as a round with the Muppets. Miss Piggy gets a bit too much into her part. Still cracks me up. The Cherry Tree Carol--great proto-feminist storyline O Come, O Come, Emmanuel--sing it for Advent in plainsong mode Lo, How a Rose (NOT the modernized version, which scans like a lump of bread dough kicked down a flight of stairs)--a quiet, beautiful song for a Christmas Eve service The Hills are Bare at Bethlehem--explores the metaphor of hope born in winter with minimal schmaltz (Fun Fact: we celebrate Christmas in winter, but Jesus was born at lambing time; He died and rose around lambing time too, so we had to spread the feasts around the calendar a bit, and besides people need a midwinter feast in northern latitudes, witness Saturnalia and Yule.) Away in a Manger--always chokes me up The Holly and the Ivy--another proto-feminist traditional carol Last song for Christmas eve: Silent Night, softly, with candles First song for Christmas morning: Joy To the World, with all the stops pulled out! Feminism aside, Joseph tends to get short shrift. He made a huge leap of faith, after all, and was good to Mary even when he thought she had slept around on him--he could have humiliated her publicly but chose not to. Anybody know any good carols about Joseph? |
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16 Nov 03 - 03:01 AM (#1054563) Subject: RE: Your favourite Christmas song From: denise:^) Gotta agree with Padre--it's the "Wexford Carol" this year... :^) |
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16 Nov 03 - 04:22 AM (#1054574) Subject: RE: Your favourite Christmas song From: The Borchester Echo 'Fairytale of New York'. And 'Arthur McBride' to underline how tragic events can occur on that day like any other. Perhaps more so. Remember Afghanistan? |
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16 Nov 03 - 10:38 AM (#1054686) Subject: RE: Your favourite Christmas song From: HuwG "Stop the Cavalry" (Jona Lewie) Perhaps this is a bit too topical this year, so like Countess Richard I'll go with "Fairytale of New York". I'm also fond of "Ring out, Solstice Bells" (Jethro Tull / Ian Anderson), and some of the old favourite hymns, especially "O come, O come, Emmanuel". However, and this should really be on a separate thread, I have a long list of most hateful Christmas songs, those which shops blast out non-stop from the end of October to Christmas Eve. Slade's "Merry Christmas, everybody", tops the list. Wizzard's "I wish it could be Christmas every day", trails by a nose, the Jackson 5's "Santa Claus is coming to town", is a close third. No doubt I shall add others to the list next month. It isn't necessarily that any of these songs are instrinsically bad, but if I hear the volume of Slade's ditty being turned up to drown out the Salvation Army Band again, I will be tempted to violence. |
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16 Nov 03 - 04:50 PM (#1054931) Subject: RE: Your favourite Christmas song From: GUEST,The Vulgar Boatman Extremes - Eric Bogle's "Santa Bloody Claus"(sod him, his reindeer and his elves...) for what it says about the rapacious b******s who have turned the entire calendar into one long marketing opportunity. "Jesus Christ, the Apple Tree" for its stunning beauty, simplicity and what it says about spirituality, even though I don't purport to be a Christian. And just about any carol which can be played, sung and danced to with its original vigour... Keep well, Chris |
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16 Nov 03 - 05:15 PM (#1054947) Subject: RE: Your favourite Christmas song From: Barb'ry I like the Elvis Costello one which starts 'I knew of 2 sisters whose name it was Christmas, and one was called Dawn of course....' Cant remember the title, and I also like Fairytale of New York and Rebel Jesus and for a bit of tradition, O Come O come Emmanuel. I only know one verse of a particularly rude song which makes me laugh 'ho, ho fuckin' ho, what a crock of shit.....' A friend sent me an animated version with a santa with a broad Australian accent and it still cracks me up! (I'll send it on if you pm me with your email address but it is a tad rude!) |
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16 Nov 03 - 07:34 PM (#1055054) Subject: RE: Your favourite Christmas song From: GUEST,pdq Another vote for "Oh Holy Night", especially nice that it is a Christmas song and not a secular one. |
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16 Nov 03 - 08:02 PM (#1055072) Subject: RE: Your favourite Christmas song From: GUEST,Desdemona I probably love the Sussex Carol best for complex reasons(!), but the Boar's Head Carol, Good King Wenceslas, The Holly and the Ivy, the Gloucestershire Wassail and the Wexford Carol all rank high on my short list as well. Hard to believe we're *talking* about Christmas music, innit? D. |
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16 Nov 03 - 08:23 PM (#1055095) Subject: RE: Your favourite Christmas song From: Hrothgar I must be too old-fashioned, or something - it's a draw betweeh "Come, O Ye Faithful (Adeste Fidelis)" and "Silent Night." Christmas carols at my place on Saturday 20th December. |
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16 Nov 03 - 08:36 PM (#1055102) Subject: RE: Your favourite Christmas song From: Amergin youre a mean one, mr. grinch... |
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16 Nov 03 - 08:47 PM (#1055103) Subject: RE: Your favourite Christmas song From: Cluin My take on that last one. (crappy little RealAudio sample) |
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16 Nov 03 - 10:42 PM (#1055144) Subject: RE: Your favourite Christmas song From: robinia "Jesus, Jesus rest your head" (written by J.J. Niles) is one of my family's favorites. Ît goes on with "you has got a manger bed; all the evil folk on earth sleep in feathers at their birth . . ." Not strictly true perhaps, but a lovely carol. . . |
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17 Nov 03 - 01:40 AM (#1055194) Subject: Lyr Add: WE'RE GONNA SING and COWBOY CHRISTMAS From: open mike Connie Kaldor and Bim do one on their New songs for an old celebration called We're Gonna Sing, which includes titles of many carols..all rolled into one... it goes thusly: WE'RE GONNA SING From Connie Kaldor and Bim New Songs for an Old Season If you see us coming up the walk, Better run & open the door, Put the shortbread on the plate, Get the eggog ready to pour, And get your voices ready, Cuz you're gonna want to sing along, When you hear those neighborhood carollers, Sing your favorite Christmas songs. CHORUS We're gonna sing Joy to the World, We're gonna sing Hark the Herald, We're gonna sing Deck the Halls, And It Came Upon a Midnite Clear, We're gonna sing every Christmas Carol, That we can remember, We're gonna end with a Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year. Some of us can sing in tune, The others sing loud and clear, We've got a version of We Three Kings, You've really got to hear. Bless the house that has welcomed us, And shared its Christmas cheer, Joy to all of the hearts within, All throughout the year. Good luck to all of us carollers, As down the road we go, May we be warmed by the toddy, And the joys of the mistletoe. CHORUS also (this is my favorite holilday collection of music) they do another one on teh same album: COWBOY CHRISTMAS BY CONNIE KALDOR AND ROY (BIM) FORBES Christmas can be lonely for the cowboy, The nearest neighbor is miles away, If the night is clear you put a jingle in the harness, And hitch old Nellie to the one horse sleigh. CHORUS So sing me Ki Yi yippee yippee yi yippee yay Wish me well if you are able Ki Yi yippee yippee yi yippee yay Remember that our Savior was born in a stable Ki Yi yippee yippee yi yippee yay I wish you all a Cowboy Christmas Now when Mary and Joseph came into the city, Rich folks didn't have room for them to stay; So Mary had her baby in a lowly stable, Cattle and horses wouldn't turn the Lord away. CHORUS Now there's some that turn their noses up at Cowboys, We're rowdy and we're scruffy, we're not high society, But remember that the angels chose to sing for shepherds, And shepherds were the cowboys of Galilee. |
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17 Nov 03 - 04:08 PM (#1055688) Subject: RE: Your favourite Christmas song From: GUEST,Arkie Among the more common classic Christmas songs, Oh Come Emmanuel, Bleak Mid Winter, God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, and Here a Torch Jennette, Isabella. Some least common, Lord of the Dance, Sweet Lamb, There Was A Pig Went Out to Dig, Twas On A Night Like This, Make My Christmas Small, and Sussex Mummer's Carol. And for a good laugh during the holidays, Robert Earl Keen's "Merry Christmas From the Family" and John Williamson's "Christmas Photo" |
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17 Nov 03 - 07:24 PM (#1055802) Subject: RE: Your favourite Christmas song From: GUEST,DD I WONDER AS I WANDER. I believe it was "collected" by John Jacob Niles. Beautiful tune |
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17 Nov 03 - 08:06 PM (#1055825) Subject: Lyr Add: CHILD IN THE MANGER From: Strupag It's just got to be this one. The tune was used by an english lady for the words "Morning Has Broken", recorded by Kat Stephens, but here are the details for the original: - Words: Mary M. Macdonald (1789-1872); translated from Gaelic to English by Lachlan Macbean in Songs and Hymns of the Gael (Edinburgh, Scotland: 1888). Music: "Bunessan," traditional Gaelic melody (MIDI, score). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Child in the manger, Infant of Mary, Outcast and Stranger, Lord of all, Child Who inherits all our transgressions, All our demerits on Him fall. Once the most holy Child of salvation Gently and lowly lived below. Now as our glorious mighty Redeemer, See Him victorious o'er each foe. Prophets foretold Him, Infant of wonder; Angels behold Him on His throne. Worthy our Savior of all our praises; Happy forever are His own I always thought that this Carol stood out for both the words and tune. Try this website http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/c/h/childman.htm Andy |
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17 Nov 03 - 09:01 PM (#1055844) Subject: RE: Your favourite Christmas song From: Margret RoadKnight Some that reflect the fact that for lots of us it's the HOTTEST part of the year.... "The Borning Day" (Fred Hellerman & Fran Minkoff) ""Red and Green Christmas" (Nadia Cattouse) "Christmas Day" (..the North wind is tossing the leaves..") by Australians William James & John Wheeler plus all songs as sung in the original "BLACK NATIVITY" (now available on CD, and featuring the stunning Marion Williams and the brilliant Prof Alex Bradford) and that intiguing "Jewish" Xmas song, also by Fred 'n' Fran, "Sweetest Dreams Be Thine"..... |
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18 Nov 03 - 07:35 AM (#1056110) Subject: RE: Your favourite Christmas song From: GUEST,banjoman Nobody mentioned "The little boy that Santa Claus forgot" Would welcome the words if anyone has them. used to sing this as a threat? to my kids if they misbehaved - they didn't believe me anyhow but loved the song (I know only the first couple of lines) |
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18 Nov 03 - 03:35 PM (#1056453) Subject: RE: Your favourite Christmas song From: Cluin Guess we forgot him too. |
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18 Nov 03 - 04:28 PM (#1056469) Subject: RE: Your favourite Christmas song From: GUEST,Poppa Gator, cookieless at work Jenny -- thanks for the info on John Denver and Miss Piggy; hardly what I expected as a reference for such an oldie as "The Goose Is Getting Fat"! To the Buddhist looking for appropriate carols: Yuletide was celebrated thoughout the northern hemisphere *long* before the time of Christ, and a good-sized subset of our traditional "Christmas" songbook actually celebrates this secular/pagan festival marking the winter solstice -- or, more precisely, the immediate aftermath of the solstice, when we can observe that the days are finally starting to get longer rather than shorter, and that the sun is not dying, but resurrecting. "Deck the Halls" is probably the most obvious and most popular example; also, anything about "wassail," eating and drinking, etc. |
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19 Nov 03 - 04:28 PM (#1057210) Subject: RE: Your favourite Christmas song From: GUEST refresh Was it something I said? I hate to see this thread disappear, just as the holiday season is approaching. Pops |
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19 Nov 03 - 10:33 PM (#1057433) Subject: RE: Your favourite Christmas song From: GUEST,.gargoyle iHobo's Christmas
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20 Nov 03 - 01:58 PM (#1057930) Subject: Lyr Add: THE REBEL JESUS (Jackson Browne) From: open mike yes i came across this one and now want to learn it.. `THE REBEL JESUS by Jackson Browne Original recording from the Chieftain's album The Bells Of Dublin also on the best-ever collection "The Next Voice You Hear" The streets are filled with laughter and light And the music of the season And the merchants' windows are all bright With the faces of the children And the families hurrying to their homes As the sky darkens and freezes Will be gathering around the hearths and tables Giving thanks for all God's graces And the birth of the rebel Jesus They call him by the "Prince of Peace" And they call him by "The Saviour" And they pray to him upon the sea And in every bold endeavor As they fill his churches with their pride and gold And their faith in him increases But they've turned the nature that I worshipped in From a temple to a robber's den In the words of the rebel Jesus We guard our world with locks and guns And we guard our fine possessions And once a year when Christmas comes We give to our relations And perhaps we give a little to the poor If the generosity should seize us But if any one of us should interfere In the business of why there are poor They get the same as the rebel Jesus But pardon me if I have seemed To take the tone of judgement For I've no wish to come between This day and your enjoyment In this life of hardship and of earthly toil We have need for anything that frees us So I bid you pleasure and I bid you cheer From a heathen and a pagan On the side of the rebel Jesus. |
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20 Nov 03 - 03:03 PM (#1057970) Subject: RE: Your favourite Christmas song From: GUEST,HelenJ. |
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20 Nov 03 - 05:28 PM (#1058062) Subject: RE: Your favourite Christmas song From: GUEST,chris Chocolate Jesus by Tom Waits for me. |
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20 Nov 03 - 08:22 PM (#1058168) Subject: RE: Your favourite Christmas song From: GUEST,anais my personal favorites are the wessex carol and hairy mary- hey, it useta be a christmas carol the seven joys of mary- i'm not sure if it's a christmas carol per se, but what a beauty, especially as sung by maddy and june "river"- joni mitchel is damn good at melancholy, and while we're on the subject, "christmas in the trenches" has got to be among the saddest. but a favorite. two good pagan carols from maddy prior's song cycle "year" "red and green" and "long shadows" |
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30 Nov 03 - 06:08 AM (#1063137) Subject: RE: Your favourite Christmas song From: Sooz Must refresh this thread to mention the "Bah Humbug" CD from Greentrax. Some great alternative songs! I particularly like "Mary Christmas" from His Worship and the Pig in which Santa's wife Mary has left him for the man from Toys R us and Robin Laing's "The man that slits the turkeys throats at Christmas. (But then I am a vegetarian!) |
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30 Nov 03 - 10:06 AM (#1063180) Subject: RE: Your favourite Christmas song From: postman Mine is Nat King Cole's version of 'The Christmas Song'. |
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30 Nov 03 - 12:00 PM (#1063216) Subject: RE: Your favourite Christmas song From: RoyH (Burl) Enoch Kent wrote a great Christmas satire to the tune of 'Mary's Boy Child'. The lyrics would need a little updating now, but not by much. Unfortunately I can't remember then all but it had lines like 'So a Merry Christmas everyone, Although the greeting's stale. If you don't get the gift you wanted, Youcan get it in our January sale'. |
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30 Nov 03 - 12:02 PM (#1063220) Subject: RE: Your favourite Christmas song From: RoyH (Burl) That last line should of course be 'You can getit in our January sale' not 'Youcan'. I've no idea what a Youcan is. Suggestions anyone? |
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30 Nov 03 - 12:49 PM (#1063241) Subject: RE: Your favourite Christmas song From: Sooz Enoch Kent's Christmas satire to the tune of 'Mary's Boy Child' is on the Bah Humbug album as well! Another good reason for getting it. |
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30 Nov 03 - 01:10 PM (#1063254) Subject: RE: Your favourite Christmas song From: Ebbie I'm singing Seamus Kennedy's 'Good Will to Men', from the album of the same name. Good song. |
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30 Nov 03 - 01:44 PM (#1063259) Subject: RE: Your favourite Christmas song From: breezy 'I'm the man who slits the turkey's throats at Christmas' by Robin Laing |
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30 Nov 03 - 02:44 PM (#1063274) Subject: RE: Your favourite Christmas song From: Peter Kasin Two favorites here: O Come All Ye Faithful. A magnificent song. Big chorus and orchestra version. Good King Wenceslas, sung with a small group, or solo. Chanteyranger |
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30 Nov 03 - 03:36 PM (#1063291) Subject: Lyr Add: OVER THE HILL AND OVER THE DALE (Neale) From: GUEST,William Pint J.M. Neale, The author of 'Good King Wenceslas,' also wrote a terrific song "Over the Hill and Over the Dale". It's the best song ever about the Three Kings. OVER THE HILL AND OVER THE DALE Over the hill and over the dale, Came three kings together Caring naught for snow and hail, Cold and wind and weather. Now on Persia's sandy plane, Now where Tigris swells with rain They their camels tether. Now through Syrian lands they go, Now through Moab faint and slow Now o'r Edam's heather. Over the hill and over the dale, Each king bears a present Wise men go a child to hale, Monarchs seek a peasant. And in front a star proceeds, Over rocks and rivers leads Shines with beams incessant. Therefore onward, onward still, Ford the stream and climb the hill Love makes all things pleasant. He is god ye go to meet, Therefore incense proffer He is king ye go to greet, Gold is in your coffer. Also man he comes to share, Every woe that man can bear Tempter, railer, scoffer. Therefore now against the day, In the grave when him they lay Myrrh ye also offer. Over the hill and over the dale, Riding east together Caring naught for snow and hail, Naught for wind and weather Warned by God from Herod's door, Each king turns for home once more Hearts and footsteps lighter. Now behind them shines the star, Which they followed from afar, Shining ever brighter. We recorded it on our 'When I See Winter Return' CD and it's also on one of John Roberts & Tony Barrand's fine "Noel" CDs. |
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30 Nov 03 - 06:27 PM (#1063349) Subject: RE: Your favourite Christmas song From: The Fooles Troupe "I Want A Hippotamus For Christmas!" |
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30 Nov 03 - 06:53 PM (#1063355) Subject: RE: Your favourite Christmas song From: Margret RoadKnight Correction to my 17 Nov post - "Sweetest Dreams be Thine" is by Jim Friedman (not Fred Hellerman & Fran Minkoff) |
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30 Nov 03 - 07:02 PM (#1063360) Subject: RE: Your favourite Christmas song From: The Fooles Troupe "I'm Getting Nuttin' For Christmas!" |
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30 Nov 03 - 07:12 PM (#1063364) Subject: RE: Your favourite Christmas song From: akenaton "Thank Christ for Christmas" Written and performed by Enoch Kent,on "Freedom come all ye" Sleeve notes say..."Enoch Kent wrote this song to be sung accompanied on the cash register ,by those big store owners for whom the Holy Trinity has become the three point plug"...Ake |
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30 Nov 03 - 07:38 PM (#1063374) Subject: RE: Your favourite Christmas song From: Bloke in the Corner Fairytale of new york |
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30 Nov 03 - 11:38 PM (#1063445) Subject: RE: Your favourite Christmas song From: Coyote Breath Brightest and Best. I sang it in church today, first day of Advent. Perfect song. The organist said it gave her goosebumps, I had that same experience the first time I heard it. Lovely, lovely song, thanks kytrad. CB |
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22 Dec 04 - 11:01 PM (#1363717) Subject: RE: Your favourite Christmas song From: GUEST,tinacurrie@hotmail.com I have the old 45RPM record and the sheet music to Little Sandy Sleighfoot as well as a storybook about the song.. |
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23 Dec 04 - 09:18 AM (#1364033) Subject: RE: Your favourite Christmas song From: GUEST,Joe_F O Little Town of Bethlehem Hark, the Herald Angels Sing Those are the ones that take me back best. And please, a chorus, not a crooner, and good oldfashioned chord progressions, not sophisticated dissonances. |
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23 Dec 04 - 10:22 AM (#1364092) Subject: RE: Your favourite Christmas song From: Swave N. Deboner My mother had an old LP with Christmas songs by various artists. One was "A Cradle in Bethlehem" sung by Nat King Cole. I've always loved the song. Beautiful words and lovely melody. If you want to listen to a really nice version, go to the link below, scroll down till you see the song title, click on that, and then click the icon you'll see for the demonstration (complete song). This is the arrangement Vince Gill does on his Christmas album (but it isn't him singing it here). It's absolutely beautiful. I'm singing it tonight in my Christmas Showcase that I'm hosting at the open mic club I hang at. http://praisehymn.com/info.aspx?page=labelhome.aspx&label=PH I'd love to say "Merry Christmas", but wouldn't want to offend anyone, so I'll just say Happy Hol.....Oh, what the hell! I hope you all enjoy the merriest Christmas season possible in these troubled times. Be well and safe. SND |
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23 Dec 04 - 11:20 AM (#1364149) Subject: RE: Your favourite Christmas song From: EagleWing Difficult - but I think I'd go for "Brightest and Best" ~ the version with the mixolydian tune which I have always assumed comes from the Apalacians. Frank L. |
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23 Dec 04 - 02:58 PM (#1364338) Subject: RE: Your favourite Christmas song From: goodbar "fairytale of new york" by the pogues and kristy maccoll. |
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23 Dec 04 - 11:45 PM (#1364639) Subject: RE: Your favourite Christmas song From: ev I'm a big fan of the Christmas Revels recordings -- one of my favorites is the Christ Child's Lullaby; the liner notes say it's translated from the traditional Gaelic song "Taladh Chriosta" from the isle of Eriskay. it's performed with Northumbrian pipes, concertina with a solo vocal -- positively haunting. "My love, my pride, my treasure -- oh, My wonder, new and pleasure -- oh, My son, my beauty ever you, Who am I to bear you here?.." I don't know what the general feelings are towards the Revels around here -- might be like the Andrew Lang Fairy Tale collections, lol. but -- there's at least a half dozen discs totaling approximately 6 hours of not-so-common songs of the season to break up the incessant repeats of "Sleigh Ride", "Winter Wonderland", and "Jingle Bells" which seem to be the non-denominational songs everyone covers and all muzak tapes are required by law to pump out in malls, I reckon. |
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26 Jun 05 - 09:54 AM (#1510222) Subject: RE: Your favourite Christmas song From: GUEST Christmas Revels songs are by far the best! |
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26 Jun 05 - 09:58 AM (#1510224) Subject: RE: Your favourite Christmas song From: GUEST Probably my favorite songs (from Revels, of course!) would be Sussex Mummer's Carol and Lord of the Dance. However, that might just be because our local Revels (which I just joined last winter) does them so wonderfully, or it might be because I love Revels! Revels is kind of an obsession... |
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26 Jun 05 - 03:14 PM (#1510425) Subject: RE: Your favourite Christmas song From: Mark Clark Several people mentioned The Cherry Tree Carol (also one of my favorites) because of its depiction of an angry Joseph. This in fact one of the earliest characterizations of Joseph. The traditional and ancient Orthodox Icon of the Nativity shows a very troubled and pissed-off Joseph sitting on sidelines wondering what happened. Some versions of the Icon also include a representation of Satan tempting Joseph to react in this way. |
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02 Feb 08 - 03:48 PM (#2251782) Subject: RE: Your favourite Christmas song From: Amos A good recording of The Rebel Jesus by Stew Replogle, billed as "the man of 1000 voices". A |
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02 Feb 08 - 04:32 PM (#2251832) Subject: RE: Your favourite Christmas song From: Rog Peek Barb'ry, the Elvis Costello song was actually a collaboration between him and Paddy Maloney of The Chieftains called "The St. Stephen's Day Murders". It is on a cd called The Dublin Bells, as is another favourite of mine, The Rebel Jesus, in this case sung by Jackson Browne himself. It's a great CD, especially around Christmas. Another favoutite of mine is "No Christmas in Kentucky" by Phil ochs. lyrics Rog |
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05 Jul 08 - 07:51 PM (#2382035) Subject: RE: Your favourite Christmas song From: GUEST,Diane Can someone give me the guitar chords to this? (Jackson Browne's "The Rebel Jesus". I've been searching everywhere! email to dianeelk@yahoo.com. Thank you! |
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05 Jul 08 - 08:04 PM (#2382048) Subject: RE: Your favourite Christmas song From: RobbieWilson fary tale of new york. nufff said |
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06 Jul 08 - 04:37 PM (#2382556) Subject: RE: Your favourite Christmas song From: Artful Codger "Monday We Saw on TV" (A Toy to Buy for Christmas), (sung) by the Smothers Brothers. "The Virgin Mary Had a Baby Boy" (He Come from the Glorious Kingdom), sung by Harry Belafonte. Tau garço, la durundena (Catalan) Someone asked for songs about Joseph. Here's a nice one: Joseph est bien marié |