Non-Christmas songs with "Christmas" in the lyrics

Discussion in 'Music Corner' started by ptijerm, Dec 14, 2014.

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  1. Lostchord

    Lostchord Dr. Livingstone, I presume

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    this one's quite nasty:

    Save the girls upstairs for later
    Now you wonder if I can manage them all
    Wrap them up in Christmas paper
    Tell them they don't have to pay
    Ring my bell and turn away

    (from Omnibus by The Move)
     
  2. kippenhok

    kippenhok Forum Resident

    Type O Negative's 'Red Water' is set on Christmas Day, but the song is about mourning the loss of loved ones. Far from festive.
     
  3. stopbrickwalling

    stopbrickwalling Forum Resident

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    Celebrate Me Home by Kenny Loggins.....although ironically I have heard 24 hour all Christmas radio now playing this song as a Christmas song....sort of like Fogelberg's Same Old Lang Syne mentioned above.
     
  4. mmars982

    mmars982 Forum Resident

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    Would you consider Paul Simon's "Getting Ready for Christmas Day" a Christmas song?

    To me, songs like this only turn into a "Christmas Song" when other people start singing them as such. So "2000 Miles" and "The River" might count, even though they have only been covered a few times. And they were not intended to be Christmas songs originally. (Songs like "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" did not start out as a "Christmas song" either.)
     
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  5. ptijerm

    ptijerm Forum Resident Thread Starter

    I've also heard Kenny Loggins' Celebrate Me Home played a fair bit on SiriusXM's Christmas channel this year, and thought it was a bit strange as I've never thought of this song as a Christmas song.
     
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  6. mfp

    mfp Senior Member

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    Paris, France
    Lou Reed - Xmas in February
    Sparks - Thank God it's not Christmas
    Tom Waits - Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis
     
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  7. Fullbug

    Fullbug Forum Resident

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    Seattle
    New Sensations, Lou Reed
     
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  8. Sheik Yerbouti

    Sheik Yerbouti Senior Member

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    Also from The Cure: "Last Dance" ("But Christmas falls late now ...")
     
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  9. JRB

    JRB Forum Resident

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    The same goes for Dolly Parton's Hard Candy Christmas, which she sang for the film adaption of best Little Whore House In Texas. Because of the title it received frequent air play as a Christmas song on country radio and was even included in the Christmas album she did with Kenny Rogers.
     
  10. Surly

    Surly Bon Viv-oh-no-he-didn't

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    Breathe - "Does She Love That Man?" - it's a song about seeing a former lover with a new guy, and the "story" in the song happens during the Xmas season. It starts out with "Aimlessly walking through a winter that's so bitterly cold. Christmas is coming, all their stores are wrapped in their neon glow." The references continue, so even though it's not actually a Xmas song, I always include it in my holiday music playlists. It was also a single during the holiday season of 1990, debuting on the US Hot 100 on 11/17/90.
     
  11. Mr Sam

    Mr Sam "...don't look so good no more"

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    France
    solo Walter Becker - Book Of Liars
     
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  12. Steve G

    Steve G Senior Member

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    los angeles
    that's not a Christmas song?
     
  13. Steve G

    Steve G Senior Member

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    los angeles
    Prince - Sign O' The Times
     
  14. RayS

    RayS A Little Bit Older and a Little Bit Slower

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    Out of My Element
    John Prine - "All The Best"

    "They say that love is like a Christmas card,
    You decorate a tree, you throw it in the yard.
    It decays and dies, and the snowmen melt,
    Yeah I once knew love, I knew how love felt."

    Ho Ho Ho
     
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  15. Gasman1003

    Gasman1003 Forum Diplomat.

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    Chris Rea - "Lonely Sky"




    "the old cathedral lights are low,
    she and i we'd often go there,
    to admire and sometimes kneel in prayer;
    lords and ladies lie in stone,
    hand in hand from long ago,
    and though their hands are cold they'll love forever,
    even the choir rehearses those songs,
    for christmas is not long"
     
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  16. Gasman1003

    Gasman1003 Forum Diplomat.

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    Eels - "I'm Going To Stop Pretending That I Didn't Break Your Heart"



    "And it's Christmas Eve
    Years down the line
    Sitting here wishing I'd treated you better
    When you were mine
    And I have no way of knowing where you are
    But I'm going to stop pretending
    That I didn't break your heart"
     
  17. aseriesofsneaks

    aseriesofsneaks Forum Resident

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    St. Catharines, ON
    "Christmas Lights" by Nina Gordon ("I'm building our lives on the dreams we string together like Christmas lights")

     
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  18. CT Dave

    CT Dave Senior Member

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    Connecticut
    From "Honey" by Bobby Goldsboro:
    "And I surprised her with a puppy,
    Kept me up all Christmas eve,
    Two years ago"
     
  19. Captain Groovy

    Captain Groovy Senior Member

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    Freedonia, USA
    Harry Nilsson's "Remember (Christmas)" - Harry or Randy Newman's take.

    "Christmas in Capetown" - Randy Newman, 1983. Not a jingly happy Christmas song, and not really about Christmas per se of course.. but brilliant!

    Jeff
     
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  20. badsneakers

    badsneakers Well-Known Member

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    Beat me to the punch!
     
  21. Gasman1003

    Gasman1003 Forum Diplomat.

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    Liverpool, England


    Al Stewart - "Swiss Cottage Manoeuvres"

    "On a Christmas cake day one
    Friday in August
    In a bookshop in Charing Cross Road
    I first set eyes on a girl and at once I did know"
     
  22. konoyaro

    konoyaro Forum Resident

    Location:
    Bay Area, CA, USA
    Jardin Botanico - Michael Franks

    "I abandon the bleak December chill
    There’s nothing like Christmas in Brazil
    The weather’s completely upside down
    When we touch down"
     
  23. StephMess78

    StephMess78 Forum Resident



    It's Christmas time, and the needles on the tree
    A skinny Santa is bringing something to me
    His voice is overwhelming, but his speech is slurred
    And I only understand every other word
     
  24. L.P.

    L.P. Forum Resident

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    Austria
    Arthur McBride
     
  25. BradOlson

    BradOlson Country/Christian Music Maven

    The original vinyl/first pressing CD of Kenny & Dolly's Christmas album did NOT have Hard Candy Christmas, it was only when RCA lost the rights to the Kenny Rogers solo tracks did they put Hard Candy Christmas on it.
     
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