Have yourself a shiny little Christmas
Today I sort of made the first of my Christmas cards. And then I told Kathy about the Night Before Christmas parody I failed to make last year (which is different from this one, although I still kind of like that one), and she told me I Absolutely Have To Finish It. With caps and everything, just like that.
So in honor of me actually attaining some holiday spirit, I decided to upload my favorite Christmas songs.
Mike Doughty--I Hear the Bells
I hear the bells
Down in the canyons, it's
Snow in New York,
Some blue December...
I can hear the bells
Are ringing joyful and triumphant
(If the lyrics don't grab you, please be informed that in a later verse he makes up a perfect tense for "snooze." And it's not "have snoozed.")
Josh Groban--O Holy Night
This man should never stop singing.
Jeffrey Foucault--Ghost Repeater
All of the drunks
Dressed up like Santa Claus
Ring Salvation Army bells...
The star up above
The 5th Avenue Christmas tree
Is shining tonight
Through the cold and the rain
To light all the faces
In the live nativity
Down on the floor
Of the stock exchange
Dark is the night
Cold is the ground
The armies march out to defend
And the Ghost Repeaters
Of the revelators
Are singing "Peace on Earth
And Good Will to all Men"
The first (well, second, I know I've posted "Miles from the Lightning" before) in a long line of Jeffrey Foucault songs to be uploaded.
Nativity School Choir--Night of Silence
This is my favorite Christmas song. In 1997, the local Catholic school choirs put out a CD. The adult choir was kind of bad, and the junior high one wasn't great, but the middle school choir was fantastic, and this is the best song on the CD.
But I could be biased. The soloist is my sister Lisa. She was eleven at the time.