Alley-ga-roo!

Christmas the cowboy way. With yodelling.

Cauliflower

Paul Kelly, How to Make Gravy.

Continuing our theme of Yuletide incarceration.

Swaller dollar

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.

 

Nora’s freezin’ on the trolley

Big Louie finds himself on the naughty list.

Walla Walla, Wash., an’ Kalamazoo!

Robert Earl Keen, Merry Christmas From the Family. Almost certainly the only Christmas song to reference AA, Bloody Marys, and tampons.

With Boston Charlie

Lambert, Hendricks & Ross wish you a cool yule.

Deck us all

A holiday request from the Mickleblog.

Nyuck nyuck nyuck and ho ho ho.

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.