…Lullaby Lilla Boy, Louisville Lou?…

“Weird Al” Yankovic, Christmas at Ground Zero. Duck and cover with your Yuletide lover.

 

…Don’t we know archaic barrel…

John Legend and Stephen Colbert, Nutmeg. Ladies, Mr. John Legend wants to nog your egg.

 

…alley-garoo!…

Louis Prima and Keely Smith, Shake Hands with Santa Claus. Wishing you the swingingest Christmas ever.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zomjVu2-Fc

…cauliflower…

Bob and Doug McKenzie, The 12 Days of Christmas. May Santa leave a two-four of stubbies under your tree. And doughnuts.

…Swaller dollar…

Gayla Peevey, I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas. Some girls don’t want rhinoceroses.

 

 

 

…Nora’s freezin’ on the trolley…

Nick Lowe, Christmas at the Airport. Sometimes you have to take Christmas where you find it.

 

 

 

…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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jj-Vff5HPhc

 

Deck us all…

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

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.