Nick Lowe, Christmas at the Airport. Sometimes you have to take Christmas where you find it.
music
…Walla Walla, Wash., an’ Kalamazoo!…
Paul Kelly, How to Make Gravy. Continuing our theme of Yuletide incarceration.
…with Boston Charlie…
John Prine, Christmas in Prison.
The searchlight in the big yard swings around with the gun
And it spotlights the snowflakes like the dust in the sun.
Deck us all…
Robert Earl Keen, Merry Christmas From the Family. Almost certainly the only Christmas song to reference AA and tampons.
Lines I like
Lines I like
“You and I go together like the molar and the drill.”
Neil Hannon,
The Divine Comedy,
Sticks & Stones
Merry Christmas, everybody
The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl, Fairytale of New York. Christmas dreams, shattered and otherwise. Grubby lyrics and soaring music. Tenderness and hope – which, after all, is what Christmas is all about.
Merry Christmas. And a tip of the tuque to Walt Kelly, who loved Christmas.
…Boola boola Pensacoola hullabaloo!
Half Man Half Biscuit, It’s Clichéd to be Cynical at Christmas. Half Man Half Biscuit stand firm against the forces of Christmas snark.
…Trolley Molly don’t love Harold…
Louis Armstrong, ‘Zat You, Santa Claus? Just, uh, slip the presents under the door, Santa.
…Lullaby Lilla Boy, Louisville Lou?…
“Weird Al” Yankovic, Christmas at Ground Zero. Duck and cover with your Yuletide lover.
