My pet peeve is a 'version' of Little Drummer Boy they play at my coffee shop which has a little repetitive drum beat which hammers its way into your noggin.

But this year I've become sensitized to the lyric of "I'll be home for Christmas" which appears to be a sad shaggy dog style tale where the singer goes "you can count on me" and waxes poetic with detail but the final wods are: "if only in my dreams." which for me subtracts all the promise and hope of the entire song.

Now, for a couple of songs I really like:

"Christmas Dream" written by Andrew Loyd Weber and only available so far as I know in the opening credits of movie: The Odessa File.

Stan Rogers: "First Christmas Away From Home."