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The songs-of-the-month threads need one for December that does not include anything specifically about the solstice or midwinter holidays, those having their own. Here's a few to begin...

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ALPHABETICAL DECEMBER INDEX Below is an alphabetical index of titles collected in this thread so far. If a title in this index is clicked then you should be "jumped" to the section of the thread in which most of the discussion and links for that title occur. If you just want to add a new post to this thread use the “Post to this thread” or POST buttons to jump to the end of the thread. We will sometimes rearrange “late” posts to group them with the appropriate main area of discussion so that they are not overlooked.When I add to someone’s post I make this clear by doing so beneath an orange line like the one below.- Regards ,Geoff Lawes

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INDEX OF DECEMBER SONGS

ÁIRD A' CHUAIN
APPLE TREE WASSAIL
ASHTABULA TRAIN WRECK
A VINT-I-CINC DE DESEMBRE     aka FUM FUM FUM
AYE FOND KISS by Robbie Burns
BALLAD OF JOHN MACLEAN
BALLAD OF KATHLEEN CLARKE (THE)
BALLAD OF OF LIFEBOAT 54 (THE)   -   Trad Academy Sea Shanty Choir
BALLAD OF MICHAEL COLLINS (THE)   aka Hang Out Your Brightest Colours
BALLAD OF PENLEE (THE)   -   Anthony Phillips
BALLAD OF SOLOMON BROWNE (THE)  -   Simon King
BALLAD OF THE CARPENTER (THE)
BALLAD OF THE TAY RAIL BRIDGE
BALLAD OF THE TEA PARTY
BALLAD OF ST. ANNE'S REEL (THE)
BATTLE OF THE FALKLAND ISLANDS
BAYOU SARA
BLACKBIRD (THE)
BLECKELL MURRYNEET (THE)
BOAR'S HEAD CAROL (THE)
BONNIE CHARLIE   aka   WILL YE NO COME BACK AGAIN?
BOSTON BURGLAR (THE)
BOSTON TEA PARTY SONG
BOXING DAY
BOYS OF PENLEE (THE) -   Jim Wearne
BOYS OF PENLEE (THE) -   Stephen Richard
BRING A TORCH, JEANETTE ISABELLA
BULLFIGHT ON THE SAN PEDRO (THE)
CAPTAIN WEDDERBURN'S COURTSHIP
CHERRY TREE CAROL (THE)
CHRISTMAS AT SEA
CHRISTMAS CAROL (A)   byTom Lehrer
CHRISTMAS HARE (THE) 
CHRISTMAS GOOSE (THE)
CHRISTMAS IN SOUTHGATE
CHRISTMAS IN THE TRENCHES
CHRISTMAS IS COMING, THE GOOSE IS GETTING FAT
CHRISTMAS MORNING
CHRISTMAS SHOES (THE)
CHRISTMAS SONG WRITTEN BY A COMPUTER
CHRISTMAS TIME IN WASHINGTON     written by Roy Acuff
CHRISTMAS TIME'S A-COMIN'
CHRISTMAS, MY ARSE  by Ricky Tomlinson
CHRISTMAS TRUCE SONG (THE)
CHRISTMAS 1914
CHRISTMAS 1915
COLD DECEMBER FLIES AWAY
CORNISH WASSAIL
CORN,WATER,WOOD
COWARDS OVER PEARL HARBOR
COWBOY CAROL (THE)
COWBOY CHRISTMAS
CUTTY WREN (THE)
DARK DECEMBER by Graeme Miles
DECEMBER by Foxhunting
DERRY'S WALLS
DITCHLING CAROL (THE)
EARLY PEARLY
EARLY SNOW
EDWARD VIII [It Was Love, Love Alone]
EIGHT DAYS OF CHRISTMAS (THE)
EL DESEMBRE CONGELAT (Catalan)
ELLEN VANNIN
EMPTY GARDEN   aka Hey, Hey Johnny
ERSKINE CHILDERS
FAIRY ON THECHRISTMAS TREE (THE)
FIRE AND FLAME
FLORA McDONALD’S LAMENT
FROZEN DECEMBER
GET THAT COMMUNIST, JOE
GIFT (THE)
GLOUCESTERSHIRE WASSAIL
GOOD KING WENSLASLAS LOOKED OUT
GOWER WASSAIL(THE)
HANUKKAH SONGS
HAPPY XMAS (WAR IS OVER)  aka So This Is Christmas
HARVEY LOGAN
HERE TODAY
HEROD AND THE COCK
HOT BUTTERED RUM
HOMELESS WASSAIL
HOUSEWIFE'S LAMENT
I AM A ROCK
IF WE MAKE IT THROUGH DECEMBER
IF YOU MISS ME AT THE BACK OF THE BUS
I JUST SHOT JOHN LENNON
IRELAND BOYS HURRAH
IRISH FREE STATE(THE)
I SAW THREE SHIPS    AKA On Christmas Day in the Morning
JACOBITE SONGS
JACOBSTOWE WASSAIL
JOE McCARTHY'S BAND
JOE McCARTHY IS COMIN' TO TOWN    
JOE McCARTHY'S LULLABY
JOHN BROWN'S BODY
JOHN FUDSTON
JOHN MACLEAN MARCH
JOSEPH
JUST ANOTHER CHRISTMAS SONG
KENTUCKY WASSAIL
KINGSTOWN DISASTER (THE)
KIT CARSON
KITCHEN DANCE
KWANZAA SONGS
LAST FIERCE CHARGE (THE)
LAST HANGING IN WEST VIRGINIA
LAST TRAIN FROM POOR VALLEY
LAST WAVE (THE) -   Bates Motel
LE RÉVEILLON DU JOUR DE L'AN [La Cuisinière]
LIFEBOAT MONA (THE)
LIFEBOAT SONG, SOLOMON BROWN PENLEE LIFEBOAT (THE)   -   by Russ Holland
LITTLE DRUMMER BOY (THE)
LOSS OF THE SAILOR’S HOME
LULA VIERS
MALPAS WASSAIL
MARCH THE MORNING SUN
MARY L. McKAY
MARI LWYD SONG (THE)
MASTER McGRATH
MISS FOGARTY’SCHRISTMAS CAKE
MORE WOOD
NIGHTINGALE (THE)
O COME ALL YE FAITHFUL
OH, CALIFORNIA
OLD SUNDAY DINNER (THE)
O MAY, THY MORN
ONE COLD DECEMBER DAY
ONE COLD MORNING IN DECEMBER
PADDY LAY BACK
PEARL HARBOR BLUES
PENLEE LIFEBOAT DISASTER   -  (Gil Boyd) performed by Piers Mortimer
PERFECT FIELDS OF FREDERICKSBURG (THE)
PERSONENT HODIE
PIG AND THE INEBRIATE (THE)
PLEASE DADDY, DON'T GET DRUNK THIS CHRISTMAS
PLEASE MR CUSTER
PORT ADMIRAL (THE)
PRINCE CHARLIE STUART
PROHIBITION SONGS
REDNECK REINDEER (THE)
REMEMBER PEARL HARBOR
REMEMBER THE POOR [The Snow Is on the Ground]
REVOLUTIONARY TEA
RIVER
ROLL ON JOHN
RUN, RUN RUDOLPH
SAINT STEPHEN AND HEROD
SANTA CLAUS     by Bo Diddley
SANTA NEVER BRINGS ME A BANJO
SEASON’S UPON US (THE)
SKYE BOAT SONG (THE)
SKIBBEREEN
SOLOMON BROWNE (THE)   -   Hughie Jones
SOLOMON BROWNE   - Seth Lakeman
SONGS ABOUT JOHN LENNON’S DEATH
SONGS ABOUT JOSEPH STALIN
SONGS ABOUT THE BATTLE OF THE BARENTS SEA
SONGS ABOUT THE PENLEE LIFEBOAT DISASTER
SONGS ABOUT SENATOR JOE McCARTHY
SONGS ABOUT THE HALIFAX EXPLOSION
SONGS ABOUT THE SIEGE OF DERRY
SONGS SUNG BY WILL FYFFE
STAGGER LEE
STARRY, STARRY NIGHT
STROUD WASSAIL
SUDDENLY IT’S CHRISTMAS
SWEET BABY JAMES
THANK GOD IT’S CHRISTMAS
THOU GLOOMY DECEMBER
THREE WISE WOMEN (THE) by Joanna Forbes L'Estrange
THREE WISE WOMEN by     Stanley Accrington
THREE WISE WOMEN nbsp;   by Lucinda Lucas
THREE WISE WOMEN nbsp;   by Kate ?
TO DAUNTON ME
TOMORROW SHALL BE MY DANCING DAY
TRY NOT TO BE A CUNT IT’S CHRISTMAS
TRY TO REMEMBER
TWELVE DAYS AFTER CHRISTMAS
TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS (THE)
VALLEY FORGE
WAKE ISLAND
WASSAILING SONG (THE)- Blur
WASSAIL SONGS
WHEN GRANDPA PLAYED THE BANJO
WHEN THE SNOWS OF WINTER FALL
WHEN THEY FLEW
WHEN YOU ARE OLD AND GREY
WIFE OF USHER’S WELL (THE)
WHIMPLE WASSAIL
WISE WOMEN     by Marco Frankland
WHITE COCKADE (THE)
WOUNDED KNEE SONGS
WREN DAY SONGS
WRIGHT!
YORKSHIRE CAROLS
YORKSHIRE WASSAIL
YULE
YOUNG FREEDA BOLT
1913 MASSACRE
23RD FLOTILLA (THE)