Weird Lyrics from Popular Xmas Songs...

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T/S: McDonalds Eggnog or Shamrock Shakes?

Kingfish Beestick (Kingfish), Friday, 5 December 2003 22:07 (twenty years ago) link

I just asked the same question about "scary ghost stories," and my co-worker came up with Dickens' Christmas Carol.

Matt B. (Matt B.), Friday, 5 December 2003 22:11 (twenty years ago) link

"...and when they looked on the side of the Baby Jesus's manger, THEY FOUND A BLOODY HOOK!"

Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 5 December 2003 22:13 (twenty years ago) link

Yeah, I was thinking about Jesus too, but I didn't feel right saying it. It is a fucking scary ghost story, no two ways about it.

Matt B. (Matt B.), Friday, 5 December 2003 22:23 (twenty years ago) link

Christmas time
Mistletoe and wine
Let's go outside
And kick a fucking pig

William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Friday, 5 December 2003 22:31 (twenty years ago) link

It's all about the figgy pudding.

andy, Friday, 5 December 2003 22:39 (twenty years ago) link

And not the piggy pegging?

Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 5 December 2003 22:41 (twenty years ago) link

and what about Peg? where does she fit in?

Kingfish Beestick (Kingfish), Friday, 5 December 2003 22:46 (twenty years ago) link

You mean Puddy figging?

Tep (ktepi), Friday, 5 December 2003 22:46 (twenty years ago) link

oh god, i'm not clicking on THAT at work...

Kingfish Beestick (Kingfish), Friday, 5 December 2003 22:50 (twenty years ago) link

First one's perfectly worksafe; second one is just text (well, there's a picture of a flogger in the lefthand margin).

Tep (ktepi), Friday, 5 December 2003 23:05 (twenty years ago) link

(But it's not funny or anything, it was just in case there were folks who didn't know who Puddy was, or what figging is :))

Tep (ktepi), Friday, 5 December 2003 23:06 (twenty years ago) link

I love how this thread got totally Dan-ified within several posts. Wahey!

Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 6 December 2003 00:30 (twenty years ago) link

Who better to put the X in Xmas?

j.lu (j.lu), Saturday, 6 December 2003 00:57 (twenty years ago) link

What, no more jokes involving eggnog? We need to repeat it at least ten more times to make it official, right?

Sarah McLusky (coco), Saturday, 6 December 2003 01:13 (twenty years ago) link

I think if you repeat it ten more times in a dark bathroom, Santa appears and spreads his cheer on you.

Tep (ktepi), Saturday, 6 December 2003 01:42 (twenty years ago) link

Thank you. I shall never sleep again.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 6 December 2003 01:47 (twenty years ago) link

I just doubled your productivity! You're welcome! :)

Tep (ktepi), Saturday, 6 December 2003 01:48 (twenty years ago) link

"All the kids and girls in boyland," from Santa Claus Is Coming to Town. Actually, that whole song is pretty messed up. I'd love to hear a really sinister, gothic version of it... Of course, a few years ago I came across a singing toy Christmas tree called Douglas Fir that sang Santa Claus Is Coming to Town in a really deep, mechanically gritty voice. I half expected him to start singing, "Douglas Fir is coming...for your SOUL!!!" Sinister.

Prude (Prude), Saturday, 6 December 2003 02:42 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.horror-wood.com/Santmar2.jpg

kephm, Saturday, 6 December 2003 07:03 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.city.okaya.nagano.jp/oiea/oiea_news/xmas02.jpg

kephm, Saturday, 6 December 2003 07:08 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.findadeath.com/funstuff/santa/scary_small.jpg

kephmas, Saturday, 6 December 2003 07:12 (twenty years ago) link

!!!!!

Prude (Prude), Saturday, 6 December 2003 07:18 (twenty years ago) link

Get Back on Topic! This is very serious stuff!

Sarah McLusky (coco), Saturday, 6 December 2003 14:57 (twenty years ago) link

Roy Wood! Listen to me! THE SNOWMAN DOES NOT BRING THE SNOW.

MarkH (MarkH), Saturday, 6 December 2003 14:59 (twenty years ago) link

Sort of beyond weird, really, into the realms of deranged, sick:

But say a prayer
Pray for the other ones
At Christmas time it's hard
But when you're having fun
There's a world outside your window
And it's a world of dread and fear
Where the only water flowing
Is the bitter sting of tears
And the Christmas bells that ring
There are the clanging chimes of doom
Well tonight thank God it's them instead of you

Oliver Craner, Saturday, 6 December 2003 16:51 (twenty years ago) link

Baby It's Cold Outside (as performed by Dean Martin)

(I really can't stay) But baby it's cold outside
(Got to go away) But baby it's cold outside
(This evening has been) Been hoping you'd drop in
(So very nice) I'll hold your hands they're just like ice
(My mother will start to worry) Beautiful watch you're wearing
(My father will be pacing the floor) Listen to the fireplace roar
(So really I'd better scurry) Beautiful please don't hurry
(Well maybe just half a drink) Put some records on while I pour
(The neighbors might think) Baby it's bad out there
(Say what's in this drink) No cabs to be had out there
(I wish I knew how) Your eyes are like starlight now
(To break this spell) I'll take your hat your hair looks swell
(I ought to say no no) Mind if I move in closer
(At least I'm going to say I tried) What's the sense of hurting my pride
(I really can't stay) Baby don't hold out
Baby it's cold outside

(I simply must go) Baby it's cold outside
(The answer is no) Baby it's cold outside
(The welcome has been) How lucky that you dropped in
(So nice and warm) Look out the window at the storm
(My sister will be suspicious) Gosh your lips look delicious
(My brother will be there at the door) Waves upon a tropical shore
(My maiden aunt's mind is vicious) Gosh your lips are delicious
(But maybe just a cigarette) Never such a blizzard before
(I got to get home) But baby you'd freeze out there
(Say lend me a comb) It's up to your knees out there
(You've really been grand) I thrill when you touch my hand
(But don't you see) How can you do this to me
(There's bound to be talk tomorrow) Think of my life long sorrow
(At least they'll be plenty implied) If you caught pneumonia and died
(I really can't stay) Get over that old doubt
Baby it's cold
Baby it's cold outside

Bryan (Bryan), Sunday, 7 December 2003 19:41 (twenty years ago) link

Lo! He abhors not the virgin's womb

colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Sunday, 7 December 2003 21:31 (twenty years ago) link

In Here comes Santa Claus! by Gene Autry and Oakley Haldeman there is a really annoying line:
"Here comes Santa Claus!
Right down Santa Claus Lane!"

That song is recorded by Bob-B-Soxx And The Blue Jeans on the otherwise resplendent A Christmas Gift for You from Phil Spector, as is The Bells of St. Mary, by Douglas Furber and A. Emmett Adams, containing the incomprehensible:
"The Bells of St. Mary, Ah, hear they are calling, The young loves, the true loves, That come from the sea."

Plus Bob-B-Soxx's voice strains on the high notes in Here comes Santa Claus!

jadrenos (jadrenos), Sunday, 7 December 2003 21:31 (twenty years ago) link

Back to top! This discussion is U & K to the season!

Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 8 December 2003 14:34 (twenty years ago) link

"Bells on bobtails ring" from Jingle Bells. What the fuck? My addled prepubescent mind used to substitute "coctails" for "bobtails," which only makes slightly more sense.

NA (Nick A.), Monday, 8 December 2003 14:53 (twenty years ago) link

colin, good call on Ye Faithful. I rememeber finding that weird when i was a kid. not to mention difficult to sing - it doesnt scan at all. wtf is with getting children to sing about abhorring a womb?!?!?!

ambrose (ambrose), Monday, 8 December 2003 15:41 (twenty years ago) link

There's a weird 50s CIA vibe in Santa Claus is coming to town:
"He see you when you're sleeping, He knows when you're awake, He knows if you've been good or bad, So be good for goodness' sake..."

jadrenos (jadrenos), Monday, 8 December 2003 16:54 (twenty years ago) link

There's many a many mystery behind each closet door
'Cause Christmas, blessed Christmas, is here once more

Sure they're talking about presents...

Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 22:07 (twenty years ago) link

The line "There won't be snow in Africa this Christmas" always pisses off my dad.

Allyzay, Tuesday, 9 December 2003 22:11 (twenty years ago) link

eleven years pass...

Can't even call a reindeer a 'jingle horse' these days...

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=jingle%20horse

this is just a saginaw (dog latin), Friday, 19 December 2014 14:20 (nine years ago) link

Jingle horse has always weirded me out, but it's doubtful that it originally referred to reindeer.

how's life, Friday, 19 December 2014 14:24 (nine years ago) link

jangle pony is preferred

$80 is absurd and very ridiculous! (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 19 December 2014 14:39 (nine years ago) link

Anyone else blindsided by this "Italian Christmas Donkey" song? Everyone I work with seems to think it's a universally beloved holiday classic, but I swear I've never heard or even heard of it. Plus it is horrible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYlvfX3nwlc

Adding ease. Adding wonder. Adding (contenderizer), Friday, 19 December 2014 14:48 (nine years ago) link

E'en so here below, below,
Let steeple bells be swungen,
And "Io, io, io!"
By priest and people sungen.
Gloria, Hosanna in excelsis!

Gibberish

this is just a saginaw (dog latin), Friday, 19 December 2014 14:57 (nine years ago) link

i know no Italian Christmas carols about donkeys. Is there a large Italian contingent in your workplace, contendo?

this is just a saginaw (dog latin), Friday, 19 December 2014 15:00 (nine years ago) link

"What's in this drink?"

RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 19 December 2014 15:24 (nine years ago) link

No, just Mainers from Maine. Wikipedia sez it's a UK thing?

In the United Kingdom, the song was used extensively on the BBC Radio 1 morning programme The Chris Moyles Show in reference to Newsbeat newsreader and regular show contributor Dominic Byrne around the Christmas 2011 period. It appeared in the Singles Chart in that country following a campaign by Chris Moyles. In the week leading up to Christmas of 2011, the show hinted at users to download the song from iTunes and Amazon. This led to the song being the #2 song on the British iTunes chart between December 19–25, 2011.[4] The song eventually peaked at #3 on the UK Singles Chart for the week ending December 31, 2011.

Please to curb your donkey.

Adding ease. Adding wonder. Adding (contenderizer), Friday, 19 December 2014 15:37 (nine years ago) link

went well over my head then. i only know 'little donkey'

this is just a saginaw (dog latin), Friday, 19 December 2014 15:39 (nine years ago) link


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