Your favorite secular Christmas song?

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Without a doubt two of my favorite and most powerful and truth telling songs secular wise re: XMAS are:

Do They Know Its Christmas: By BAND-AID (Christmas in Africa song) by Bob Geldof

Happy Christmas(War is Over): By John Lennon
 
Morning_Glory said:
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“All I Want for Christmas Is You” by Mariah Carey
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I second that! Deep down I’m just a romantic little fuzzball. This one is by far and away my favorite secular Christmas song. 🙂

One a side note: if you like this particular song, then you will also like the movie “Love Actually”. It’s a romantic comedy set at Christmas, starring Hugh Grant, Liam Neeson, Colin Firth, and many other names and faces you’ll recognize. It’s what you’d get if you tried to turn Mariah Carey’s song into a movie. The screenwriter even admitting to listening to this song to put him in the right frame of mind before working on the movie.
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It’s not officially the holiday season for me until I’ve heard both this song, and Johnny Mathis’ “It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas”.
 
I love the version of Jingle Bells “sung” by The Singing Dogs, ie. dogs barking out the notes of the song.

I can hear it again and again and still enjoy a good, heart-warming laugh.
 
“It was Christmas Eve, babe, in the drunk tank…”
Fairytale of New York by the wonderful Pogues!

And Merry Christmas From the Family by Robert Earl Keen is a very close second
 
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“It was Christmas Eve, babe, in the drunk tank…”
Fairytale of New York by the wonderful Pogues!

And Merry Christmas From the Family by Robert Earl Keen is a very close second
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Ha! A bit of the American Dream in THAT one!
“Well I Coulda been someone!” (Well so could anyone!" )

My faves include:
“O Little Town Of Bethlehem” There’s just such fantastic harmonies in there! I’m pretty sure was written in Philadelphia a ways back, by an Episcopalian minister.

“I’ll Be Home For Christmas” (sung by almost anyone)

Christmas (Baby Please Come home) (As sung by U2)

The Christmas Song (gotta be Nat King Cole!)

White Christmas - Best by Bing

You’re a Mean One Mister Grinch - the original is best, but I’ve heard some unusual rock/punk versions

As an aside - I have an interest in ancient sacred choral music, so things like “On Yoolis Night” by Anonymous Four are wonderful. 13th and 14th century carols are strange and wondrous.
 
White Christmas
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
Sleighbells
Let It Snow

😃
 
Well, I prefer more comical songs, like Wierd Al Yankovic’s “Christmas at Ground Zero”, but my favorite is “Rusty Chevrolet” by a local group called “Da Yoopers”. It goes like this, and is sung to the tune of “Jingle Bells”:

RUSTY CHEVROLET
Dashing through the snow in my rusty Chevrolet
Down the road I go sliding all the way
I need new piston rings I need some new snow tires
My car is held together by a piece of chicken wire

Chorus:
Rust and smoke, the heaters broke, the door just blew away
I light a match to see the dash and then I start to pray
The frame is bent, the muffler went, the radio it’s ok
Oh what fun it is to drive this rusty Chevrolet

I went to the IGA to get some Christmas cheer
I just passed my left front tire and it’s getting hard to steer
Skidding down the highway right past the Negaunee cops
I had to drag my swampers to get the car to stop

(Chorus)

Bouncing through the snowdrifts in a big blue cloud of smoke
People laugh as I drive by, I wonder what’s the joke
I got to get to Shopko to pick up the layaway
'Cause Santa Claus is coming soon in his big old Rusty Sleigh

(Chorus 2x)
 
Andruschak said:
Mine would be Stan Freeburg’s GREEN CHRI$TMA$, a satire as relevent today as when it first came out…and many radio stations refused to play for fear of offending their advertisers
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While I’ve known this piece for years, I finally just got a recording of it last month! Freeburg’s stuff (though 50 years old) is still utterly fresh today.

My favorites would have to be some local things I grew up with as a kid. They include:

Andy Griffith and Don Knots (as barney Fife) sitting on the porch in Mayburry singing Away in the Manger with Andy playing guitar.

Bing Crosby on the street ringing a bell and singing Silver Bells.

Perry Como’s version of The Little Drummer Boy.

The cast of the Dick Van Dyke Show performing I Am a Great Musician.

Some old black and white cartoons (which ought to be available on youtube), Hardrock, Coco, and Joe; Suzy Snowflake; Frosty the Snowman

And then there’s The Pretty Little Dolly!
 
oh, and Carol of the Bells (the secular version of Ring Christmas Bells although Carol of the Bells I assume of course was written first)
 
Nat King Cole singing “The Christmas Song” or Johnny Mathis singing “Silver Bells.”
 
Does “Put One Foot In Front Of The Other” from Santa Claus is Coming To Town count? I love it!
 
an aussie song called "The North Wind"it is very pretty and very stralian…
 
also Frank singing I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day
i have reprint of an old Frank and Bing Christmas album, I think from a TV special, that is great
 
I finally found it! I love the Bing Crosby/David Bowie duet: Little Drummer Boy/Peace on Earth
Kathy
 
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