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An occasional thread of the best bits in Christmas songs.
1. "Stay now" in Stay Another Day.
1. "Stay now" in Stay Another Day.
2. The really loud "OH COME LET US ADORE HI-IM" in O Come All Ye Faithful.
3. "Pa rum pa pum pum" in Little Drummer Boy. The low key ones, not the ones trying to take it into a chorus.
4. "It's Chriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiistmaaaaaaaas!" in Merry Xmas Everybody.
Yes, I know this is obvious. But we have to do the obvious ones too.
Yes, I know this is obvious. But we have to do the obvious ones too.
5. "May your days be merry, and briiiight" in White Christmas.
6. "Snow on snow on snow" from In The Bleak Midwinter, which isn't the actual lyric, but it's what we must sing to get Christmas right.
7. "FIIIIVE GOOOOO-OOLD RIIINGS!" Obviously. https://twitter.com/paulcurtinuk/status/1335620295412027398?s=19
8. This is correct. https://twitter.com/ancientnmodern/status/1335621411004698627?s=19
9. When the kids sing "When the snowman brings the snow" in I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day.
10. "Gath'ring winter fu-ue-el" in Good King Wenceslas.
11. "Then one foggy Christmas Eve" in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.
12. "Mary was the mother mild" in Once In Royal David's City, when everyone falls to pieces as they realise they can't sing that bit.
14. The humming bit in When A Child Is Born.
15. "It'll be cold, so cold" in It'll Be Lonely This Christmas.
16. "Once bitten and twice shy" in Last Christmas.
17. The dignity-shredding "Please, please, please" meltdown in Christmas (Baby Please Come Home).
18. All I Want For Christmas Is You has wall-to-wall good bits, but the the "And I-I" from the backing singers is the connoisseur's choice.
19. "For me" in Santa Baby.
20. "Yet in thy dark stree-eets shi-i-i-ineth" in O Little Town Of Bethlehem.
21. When the fiddle-de-dee music kicks in on Fairytale Of New York. (Second place to "well so could anyone", third to "you promised me Broadway was waiting for me", fourth to "the boys of the NYPD choir still singing Galway Bay").
22. Sorry to disappoint those who were suggesting particular lyrics, but this is blatantly correct. https://twitter.com/FuzzyGolf/status/1335639189694664707?s=19
23. "I take a look at the driver next to me" from Driving Home For Christmas. Largely for the Partridge factor.
24. "Hark now hear the angels sing" in Mary's Boy Child. Such a bold lyric steal. Extra points for being super camp in the Boney M version.
25. "Make the yuletide gay" from Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas.
26. When Crosby first undercuts Bowie with a "come they told me" on Peace On Earth/ Little Drummer Boy.
27. Indisputable truth. https://twitter.com/CountingSheep5/status/1335638142343405571?s=19
28. This is 100% correct, of course. https://twitter.com/GlenMutel/status/1335674126091083783?s=19
29. Sharp intake of breath, then with more gusto than the previous verses, "the cattle are lowing" in Away In A Manger.
31. "Atchoo, atchoo, atchoo" - When Santa Got Stuck Up The Chimney.
