Here they are, my go to Christmas Carols for 2025!
Photographer Unknown
Published By: : TimeLife
Victorian era illustration of carol singing in bleak midwinter setting.
1900
These are three of my favorite Christmas songs and of course I have little stories for the reason I love them just a little more then others:
The Boar’s Head is a straight up let’s make Merry and have a good time song. I only listen to it when I’m already in a good mood because I never ever want to associate it with feeling sad:
The Christmas song that isn’t a Christmas song-It’s actually an anti-war song.
I listened to this a lot when the US went into Iraq, I listened to it a lot when Trump actually won the election in 2017 and I listened to it a lot when Trump lost the election and up to the time he attempted his coup d’état.
But when we went into lockdown and my world- what there was of it at that point was gone-poof just like that this song took on a new meaning for me.
I just love it. It’s seen me through some hard times :
It’s not so much the lyrics that I love about this song- it’s the melody. The choir’s voice reminds me of the nights when I would be walking my dog and it would start to snow. The wind would be blowing a little and I could feel the snow landing on my face. Then my dog- one of many that I was lucky enough to have in my life would look up at me and in that moment the world felt and looked still and quiet and perfect.
And a little sad.
Mark Edwards
” Night Of The Krampus “
by
The Midnight Syndicate
My favorite Christmas song of late was never intended to be a Christmas song- it just became one because some say, it mentions Christmas.
I think there is more to it then that- it’s asking for peace and hope and the desire to be with the people you love.
That sounds like a lot of other Christmas songs – but to me, it’s one of the best and I do love to sing it, I love to listen to it most of all I feel it in my ones.
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Hey, Mr. Churchill comes over here
To say we’re doing splendidly
But it’s very cold out here in the snow,
Marching to win from the enemy
Oh I say it’s tough, I have had enough
Can you stop the cavalry?
I have had to fight, almost every night
Down throughout these centuries
That is when I say, oh yes yet again
Can you stop the cavalry?
Mary Bradley waits at home
In the nuclear fall-out zone
Wish I could be dancing now
In the arms of the girl I love
(Dub a dub a dumb dumb)
(Dub a dub dubadum dubadum dub a dub dubadum)
Wish I was at home for Christmas
Bang! That’s another bomb on another town
While Luzar and Jim have tea
If I get home, live to tell the tale
I’ll run for all presidencies
If I get elected I’ll stop, I will stop the cavalry
(Dub a dub a dumb dumb)
(Dub a dub dubadum dubadum dub a dub dubadum)
Wish I was at home for Christmas
Wish I could be dancing now
In the arms of the girl I love
Mary Bradley waits at home
She has been waiting two years long
Wish I was at home for Christmas
