White Wine In The Sun

[xedrik]

I just really love Tim Minchin, and this song sums up my feelings about the holidays quite nicely.

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White Wine In The Sun
Tim Minchin

I really like Christmas
It's sentimental I know
But I just really like it.

I am hardly religious
I’d rather break bread with Dawkins than Desmond Tutu,
To be honest.

And yes I have all of the usual objections to consumerism
The commercialization of an ancient religion
To the westernization of a dead Palestinian
Press-ganged into selling Playstations and beer.
But I still really like it

I'm lookin' forward to Christmas
Though I'm not expecting
A visit from Jesus

I'll be seeing my dad
My brother and sisters, my gran and my mum
They'll be drinking white wine in the sun
I'll be seeing my dad
My brother and sisters, my gran and my mum
They'll be drinking white wine in the sun

I don't go in for ancient wisdom
I dont believe just cos ideas are tenacious
It means they are worthy

I get freaked out by churches
Some of the hymns that they sing have nice chords
But the lyrics are dodgy

And yes I have all of the usual objections to the miseducation
Of children, who in tax-exempt institutions are taught to externalize blame
And to feel ashamed and to judge things as plain right or wrong
But I quite like the songs

I'm not expecting big presents
Ye olde combination of socks, jocks and chocolates
Is just fine by me.

Cos I’ll be seeing my dad
My brother and sisters, my gran and my mum
They'll be drinking white wine in the sun
I'll be seeing my dad
My brother and sisters, my gran and my mum
They'll be drinking white wine in the sun

And you my baby girl
My jet-lagged infant daughter
You'll be handed 'round the room
Like a puppy at a primary school

And you won't understand
But you will learn one day
That wherever you are and whatever you face
These are the people
Who'll make you feel safe in this world
My sweet blue-eyed girl

And if my baby girl
When you're twenty-one or thirty-one
And Christmas comes around
And you find yourself 9000 miles from home

You’ll know whatever comes
Your brothers and sisters and me and your mum.
Will be waiting for you in the sun

Whenever you come,
Your brothers and sisters
Your aunts and your uncles
Your grandparents, cousins
And me and your mum.
Will be waitin' for you in the sun
Drinking white wine in the sun
Darlin' when Christmas comes,
We'll be waitin' for you in the sun
Drinking white wine in the sun
Waitin' for you in the sun
Waitin' for you...
Waitin'...

I really like Christmas
It’s sentimental I know...