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by **MadAboutRunning** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 7:42 pm

OK - someone had to be the first to post a "Christmas" thread and it is only 20 days away after all....

SO, whats your fave Christmas carol and why?

For me - as a tear-jerker/memory-jerker: "When a Child is Born."

For singing really loud to: "Snoopy's Christmas."

For prancing round the living room like a total idiot to: "Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer." :oops:

MAR.

by **tinkle** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 8:49 pm

Well.

I do get a lump in my throat when I hear that quintessential classic crissy song;

Ho f'ing Ho

as sung by Kevin Bloody Wilson.

Anyone need me to sing a chorus?

*warming up,just in case*

by **Pilbara K** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 9:19 am

Frosty the Snowman and Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer. Must be a childhood thing.

For me, the most meaningful Christmas song is "Santa never made it into Darwin" about Cyclone Tracy. I live in a cyclone area and have lived through two direct hits (plus more alerts). You can become complacent over time but you always remember your first one!! We are in cyclone season now and we have a cyclone "box" packed for evacuation and/or surviving without food/water/power for a week. The power of mother nature is awesome and very, very scarey. Generally though, you at least get a warning with cyclones.

by **flip n twist** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 10:28 am

As a Christian, I'm moreso into that side of carols...I can't really stand any of this Rudolf (not our Ausrun poster!)/Santa/Father Christmas train of thought...well I can, but I don't like the way it infiltrates kids' minds as what Christmas is all about.

But I don't think we had one carol last week at church (surprising), so my memory is scratchy at the moment.

Sentimental favourite is "Silent Night" - it's just a beautiful song;

"Gloria in Excelsis Deo" (part of Mary's Boy Child/Hark the Herald as well? Can't remember) is always fun, because as an alto-soprano, it's still near dead impossible to sing properly, so way more fun to belt out at the top of your lungs in your most anti-choir style voice ever; and

the Hallelujah Chorus - special sentiment, because we spent 6 weeks last year learning the chorus for a Christmas item. About 20 of us started, and it, erm, sounded questionable at the start, but was pretty fantastic by Christmas Day.

by **deege** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 10:57 am

I am with flip for general preferences and for pretty much the same reasons.

I love the classics like Hark, Mary's Boy Child, O Holy Night and similar. My current favourite "pop" version is a David Bowie Song "Peace on Earth" sung in counter-point to the Little Drummer Boy. Followed closely by Dave Matthews singing the Christmas Song. Lyrics:

She was his girl; he was her boyfriend

She'd be his wife and make him her husband

A surprise on the way, any day, any day

One healthy little giggling dribbling baby boy

The wise men came, three made their way

To shower him with love

While he lay in the hay

Shower him with love love love

Love love love

Love love was all around

Not very much of his childhood was known

Kept his mother Mary worried

Always out on his own

He met another Mary who for a reasonable fee,

less than reputable was known to be.

His heart full of love love love

Love love love

Love love was all around

When Jesus Christ was nailed to his tree

Said "oh, Daddy-o, I can see how it all soon will be

I came to shed a little light on this darkening scene

Instead I fear I've spilled the blood of my children all around"

The blood of my children all around

The blood of my children's all around

So I'm told, so the story goes

The people he knew were

Less than golden hearted

Gamblers and Robbers

Drinkers and Jokers, all soul searchers

Like you and me

Like you and me

Rumors insisted he soon would be

For his deviations

Taken into custody

By the authorities less informed than he.

Drinkers and Jokers all soul searchers

Searching for love love love

Love love love

Love love was all around

Preparations were made

For his celebration day

He said "eat this bread and think of it as me

Drink this wine and dream it will be

The blood of our children all around

The blood of our children's all around

The blood of our children all around

Father up above, why in all this hatred do you fill

Me up with love, love, love

Love love love

Love love was all around

Father up above, why in all this hatred do you fill

Me up with love, fill me love love love

Love love love

all you need is love

you can't buy me love

Love love love

Love love

And the blood of our children's all around

by Em » Wed Dec 06, 2006 11:53 am

Xmas! As Austin Powers once said "it's not my bag, baby".

A funny story though, my mum told me once that she thought one of the lines from Silent Night was "Round Young Virgins" :lol:

And I have fond memories of singing Six White Boomers at the school Xmas play when I was young. Also for some reason, despite being a total heathen I was always chosen to play Mary in the nativity, then by about grade 6 I got a tragic short haircut and I was relegated to Drummer Boy :roll:

by **Leizel** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 1:23 pm

I love Bruce Springsteen's live version of 'Merry Christmas Baby' - it's on my playlist at the moment.

by **Sharon** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 1:52 pm

The most beautiful xmas song for me is by The Smashing Pumpkins - "Christmastime"

I have it on my ipod all year round

by PJ » Wed Dec 06, 2006 1:59 pm

Em, lol.....if you haven't had a previous stint as a comedienne, you are now a budding one.

by **flip n twist** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 12:27 pm

Em wrote:

A funny story though, my mum told me once that she thought one of the lines from Silent Night was "Round Young Virgins"

HAHA!!! I remember we weren't allowed to sing the second verse of O Come All Ye Faithful because it mentioned the word 'virgin'. (That song has about eight verses too!). We were going to perform at the Opera House and one of our choir teachers dearly wished to avoid explaining what a virgin was...

by **Stu Mac** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 9:48 pm

I think the Sex Pistols sang my favorite version or was that Happy Birthday or God Save the Queen.... :roll:

I couldn't find ANY in my CD collection, so I suspect I do not have a favorite or like any!

by **MadAboutRunning** » Fri Dec 08, 2006 6:27 am

Orrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr..... come on Stu (and Em!) you know you want to tie some reindeer antlers to your head and go running round the Tan singing "Rudolf the Red Nosed..." :lol:

by **fem_physique** » Fri Dec 08, 2006 8:16 am

cant go past Billy Mack - Christmas is All Around from the movie Love actually. :lol:

http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/loveactu ... around.htm

by **schtumpie** » Fri Dec 08, 2006 9:08 am

Em wrote: she thought one of the lines from Silent Night was "Round Young Virgins"

....maybe that's why they were virgins ........

by Em » Fri Dec 08, 2006 10:24 am

fem_physique wrote:cant go past Billy Mack - Christmas is All Around from the movie Love actually.

http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/loveactu ... around.htm

Yeah I'll pay that, LOVED Bill Nighy in that film, so droll!

by **Clarkey** » Fri Dec 08, 2006 11:51 pm

I don't know about carols, but doing a running tour of local streets checking out the light displays was very nice tonight.

by **fem_physique** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 9:10 am

Clarkey wrote:I don't know about carols, but doing a running tour of local streets checking out the light displays was very nice tonight.

That's something I like to do each year.... I'll do the drive by version... get to see more pretty lights! Then go home to my place with only one pathetic set of lights that have been up since I moved in 2 years ago..... Oh well - no-one can see my house anyway

by **Sharon** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 4:52 pm

doing a running tour of local streets checking out the light displays was very nice tonight

I love xmas lights and this year it is extra special for us. We live on a canal and you can see christmas lights all down the water ways from our balcony. It's very beautiful and very exciting for our 4 year old.

We are making the most of it as another move interstate is looking likely for 2007.

by Em » Mon Dec 11, 2006 5:26 pm

It came to me like a bolt of lightening today, not strictly a carol but I absolutely love Fairytale of New York (Shane McGowan of The Pogues and Kristy McNicol).

Gets to me every time, a total classic.

For those who don't know it, tis about a drunk locked up on Xmas eve reflecting on better times.

by **Boston** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 5:35 pm

Jose Feliciano's Feliz Navidad is a song that gets played to infinite in the shopping malls...

Surely it has beene translated to lots of languages...

Feliz Navidad, feliz Navidad!

Feliz Navidad, prospero aÒo felicidad!

Feliz Navidad, feliz Navidad!

Feliz Navidad, prospero aÒo felicidad!

I want to wish you a Merry Christmas!

With lots of presents to make you happy!

I want to wish you a Merry Christmas!

From the bottom of my heart!

I want to wish you a Merry Christmas!

by **crissyjt** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 9:56 pm

Em wrote:
A funny story though, my mum told me once that she thought one of the lines from Silent Night was "Round Young Virgins"

Um.... so what is the actual verse?

I am rather embarresed to say, but your mums line is the one i've been belting out for a couple of decades.

:oops:

by **deege** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 8:21 am

"round yon' (yonder) virgin, mother and child"

by **frankie** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 5:30 pm

a song i heard on the radio the other day is Happy Xmas (War is Over)

John Lennon, Yoko Ono

by **Adam RR** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 5:47 pm

Em wrote:Xmas! As Austin Powers once said "it's not my bag, baby".

A funny story though, my mum told me once that she thought one of the lines from Silent Night was "Round Young Virgins"

It isn't? Never really thought about it as, it's not my bag either, but what are the lyrics?

I'm going to get owned :oops:

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