Good King Wenceslas looked out on the beast of Stephen

[midnitemaraud_r]

In an effort to not be ridiculously late as usual, I have started writing my rs_small_gifts fic. \o/

The rough draft of just the intro scene is 1488 words, and I left some blank [ ]s that need to be filled in. I do that so I don't lose my train of thought trying to come up with and getting stuck on finding the perfect word/phrase/idea. Usually it's [insert sex

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[ragdoll]

Obviously am not English, but a few carols I know they sing in the UK:

Good King Wenceslas
We Wish You A Merry Christmas
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (which Sirius already bastardized in OotP)
Deck the Halls
12 Days of Christmas

[midnitemaraud_r]

You are a total anglophile!

I remember when I was in Devon for Christmas back in 1985 with my ex's family - we went to church, and I was all excited to sing some Christmas carols. There was one in particular - of course I can't remember which one now - but the words and music were completely different from the American version I knew. It totally threw me.

Thank you!!

(Also, it's a little known *cough* fact *cough* that before he cleaned it up to be Merry Hippogriffs, it was originally God Rest Ye Randy Hippogriffs. He was a very naughty boy, after all! :-P)

[secondsilk]

Away in a Manger has an English tune and an American tune, but I'm pretty sure the words are the same.

[erastes]

Angels We Have Heard on High
Away in a Manger
Oh Come All Ye Faithful
The First Noel
The Holly and the Ivy
God Rest You Merry Gentlemen
Good King Wenceslas
Hark! the Herald Angels Sing
I saw three ships
Joy to the world
In the Deep Midwinter
O Little Town of Bethlehem
Once in Royal David's City
Silent Night
We Three Kings of Orient Are
While Shephers Watched Their Flocks

[midnitemaraud_r]

Yay! Thank you so much!! I don't think I've ever heard The Holly and the Ivy or Once in Royal David's City before. I shall have to investigate! :-D

[onehundredmoons]

Once in Royal David's City (which is from the Lessons and Carols ceremony, which was one of my small gifts prompts!)
The Holly and the Ivy

(Can you tell I love me some boy choir??)

[midnitemaraud_r]

Oooh! Thanks, L! Pretty songs!

(Hee! Only boy choir? ;) )

[donnaimmaculata]

You're having so much fun with this, aren't you? :-D :-D

[midnitemaraud_r]

Hee! I blame Mad Magazine from when I was a kid. They used to publish their own versions of popular Christmas carols, and I still remember a few of them. Particularly:

It hangs down from the chandelier
We have no idea what it does
Its shape is weird and it drips with goo
And lets off a high sounding buzz

It grows a couple of feet each day
And wiggles with kind of a twitch
We keep it 'cause it's a present from
A visiting uncle who's rich.

Also:

Oh little Bank Americard [*before it became Visa]
You bring me Christmas cheer
Without your clout, I have no doubt
No gifts I give this year

Your credit line allows me
To run up bills quite large
And when I'm through exhausting you
I use my Master Charge!

Oh! And there was

We three drunks from Omaha are
Spending Christmas eve in a car
Driving, drinking, laughing, singing
Who needs a lousy bar?

Of course, those are now far too tame for me Sirius! :-P

And really - what the hell is wassailing?

♥ ♥

[shabzilla]

Ooooh I haven't sung hymns since primary school, but let me think...

Away In A Manger
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
Silent Night
12 Days of Christmas
O Come All Ye Faithful
O Little Town Bethlehem
Deck The Halls
We Wish You A Merry Christmas

There's one that I am humming but cannot for the life of me remember the words to... asdlka;lskd SO FRUSTRATING. Oh well, I'll just be singing carols to myself now! XD

[midnitemaraud_r]

Earworm? Hee!

Thanks, BB! You know, there's something amusing about the Jew asking the Muslim for Christmas carols. Fweeeee! :-P

[gmth]

I can't stop giggling over the beast of Stephen.

[midnitemaraud_r]

Hee! I used that one in my 2009 small gifts fic!

"Good King Wenceslas looked out, on the beast of Stephen,
Such a knob he'd never seen, long and firm and even..."

It's just not an MWPP Christmas without Sirius' very special Christmas lyrics!

Every year I say I'm going to do a 'naughty lyrics contest' here on my journal, but I never get around to it. I think I'll make a point to do it this year!

[gmth]

OMG, LOL, that's amazing!

[midnitemaraud_r]

:-P

In another life I was definitely a teenage boy!