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Re: What is your favorite Christmas song?
« Reply #40 on: December 06, 2007, 02:00:59 pm »
This is not my favourite Chrismas song, but ....

You guys hear "Christmas Shoes" by Bob Carlysle? Got a country feel to it.

Corny as ol heck and hadn't heard it until last year but ... it's got me cryin too dang regularly. Heard it twice so far this year.

Just tried to download it off limewire and Kenny Chesney's apparently got a version of it out too.

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Re: What is your favorite Christmas song?
« Reply #41 on: December 06, 2007, 03:07:03 pm »
This is not my favourite Chrismas song, but ....

You guys hear "Christmas Shoes" by Bob Carlysle? Got a country feel to it.

Corny as ol heck and hadn't heard it until last year but ... it's got me cryin too dang regularly. Heard it twice so far this year.

Just tried to download it off limewire and Kenny Chesney's apparently got a version of it out too.



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You need to hear Skip Ewings Christmas Carol if you've not!
It's a beauty and it gets the waterworks goin too!
I'll look for it on You-Tube when I get home.
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Re: What is your favorite Christmas song?
« Reply #42 on: December 06, 2007, 04:10:18 pm »
My favourite hands-down Christmas song is Christmas in the Drunk Tank - oops really called Fairytale Of New York by the Pogues.

It was Christmas Eve babe
In the drunk tank
An old man said to me, won't see another one
And then he sang a song
The Rare Old Mountain Dew
I turned my face away
And dreamed about you

Got on a lucky one
Came in eighteen to one
I've got a feeling
This year's for me and you
So Happy Christmas
I love you baby
I can see a better time
When all our dreams come true

They've got cars big as bars
They've got rivers of gold
But the wind goes right through you
It's no place for the old
When you first took my hand
On a cold Christmas Eve
You promised me
Broadway was waiting for me

You were handsome
You were pretty
Queen of New York City
When the band finished playing
They howled out for more
Sinatra was swinging,
All the drunks they were singing
We kissed on a corner
Then danced through the night

The boys of the NYPD choir
Were singing "Galway Bay"
And the bells were ringing out
For Christmas day

You're a bum
You're a punk
You're an old slut on junk
Lying there almost dead on a drip in that bed
You scumbag, you maggot
You cheap lousy faggot
Happy Christmas your arse
I pray God it's our last

The boys of the NYPD choir
Still singing "Galway Bay"
And the bells were ringing out
For Christmas day


I could have been someone
Well so could anyone
You took my dreams from me
When I first found you
I kept them with me babe
I put them with my own
Can't make it all alone
I've built my dreams around you

The boys of the NYPD choir
Still singing "Galway Bay"
And the bells are ringing out
For Christmas Day

Perfect performance and an amazing video - with Matt Dillon making an appearance.

Each year I try to find a brand new Christmas CD to play repeatedly
Last year it was James Taylor's - It was Carly Simon the year before.
This year I am playing Josh Groban's Noel.

Merry Christmas

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Re: What is your favorite Christmas song?
« Reply #43 on: December 06, 2007, 11:46:41 pm »
Toast!! Great song! Nice to see you back!! I'm glad you did not fade away  xsuccously!!

As far as Xmas songs go, I favor Barenaked Ladies. Aren't they your countrymen? Or do you care to claim them??
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Re: What is your favorite Christmas song?
« Reply #44 on: December 08, 2007, 12:23:19 pm »
Wow.  Lee

I have no problem accepting The Barenaked Ladies as our own Canadian Stars.

I knew they had Christmas songs on the go, but I have never listened to their 2004 "Barenaked for the Holidays."

I guess I'd better get a copy, but I don't expect it to be a favourite of mine, but not necessarily exxuccous.