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im sitting here on a sunday morning all by myself listening to christmas cds. right now reba mcintyre is singing my favorite modern christmas song

Mary did you know?



Mary, did you know
that your baby boy will one day walk on water?

Mary, did you know
that your baby boy will save our sons and daughters?

Did you know,
that your baby boy has come to make you new?
This child that you've delivered,
will soon deliver you.

Mary, did you know
that your baby boy will give sight to a blind man?

Mary, did you know
your baby boy will calm a storm with his hand?

Did you know,
that your baby boy has walked where angels trod?
When you kiss your little baby,
you've kissed the face of God.

The blind will see
The deaf will hear
The dead will live again.
The lame will leap
The dumb will speak
The praises of The Lamb.

Mary, did you know
that your baby boy is Lord of all creation?

Mary, did you know
that your baby boy will one day rule the nations?

Did you know,
that your baby boy is heaven's perfect lamb?
This sleeping child you're holding, is the great I AM.


that lyric in the middle "Did you know....that when you kiss your little baby, youve kissed the face of God" gives me the chills

and it reminds me that as we are all made in the image of god that when WE kiss our children we have also "kissed the face of god"

ya ya ya i'm an athiest. so i cant enjoy a few christmas song?

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I don't really like any contemporary Christmas songs. And I don't like any in excess. Plus, all of the modern ones seem to ignore the fact that Christmas is celebrating the birth of Christ, not grandma getting run over by a reindeer (though I love the Irish Rovers).

i agree with you
thats why i like this one

just the thought of mary being there in a stable holding jesus and wondering if she realizes just what she has done. "when you kiss you little baby, youve kissed the face of god"

its almost as moving as my all time favorite "oh holy night"

im sitting here on a sunday morning all by myself listening to christmas cds. right now reba mcintyre is singing my favorite modern christmas song

Mary did you know?




that lyric in the middle "Did you know....that when you kiss your little baby, youve kissed the face of God" gives me the chills

and it reminds me that as we are all made in the image of god that when WE kiss our children we have also "kissed the face of god"

ya ya ya i'm an athiest. so i cant enjoy a few christmas song?

I sang that song in a choir concert 4 days ago... it's very moving...

I loathe christmas songs. One of the worst things about christmas shopping (apart from crowds, hostility and overpriced shoddy goods) is the deafening, tinny racket that blares from the (inadequate) speakers everywhere. A couple of days ago I was in the shopping centre with my 3 year old. She tried to tell me something several times before I gave up and bent down to put my ear to her mouth to hear her. The music (and I use the term loosely) was ridiculously loud.

Talk about driving customers away. I run in, grab what I know I need and leave. No browsing, no impulse spending. Stupid policy, really.




Yeah yeah yeah - bah humbug :D

My favorite 'christmas song' is definitely Good King Wenceslas, though it isnt even really a christmas song.

grandma got run over by a raindeer

I started crying today when I heard a song called "Christmas Shoes."

Of course, I start crying *anytime* I hear something cute/sweet/amazing a child does these days.

I loathe christmas songs. One of the worst things about christmas shopping (apart from crowds, hostility and overpriced shoddy goods) is the deafening, tinny racket that blares from the (inadequate) speakers everywhere. A couple of days ago I was in the shopping centre with my 3 year old. She tried to tell me something several times before I gave up and bent down to put my ear to her mouth to hear her. The music (and I use the term loosely) was ridiculously loud.

Talk about driving customers away. I run in, grab what I know I need and leave. No browsing, no impulse spending. Stupid policy, really.




Yeah yeah yeah - bah humbug :D

noooo i agree with you, the crappy reditions of christmas songs played way too loud and way too often drives me crazy

its a good reason to not spend much time in stores this time of year. i have to keep it to a minimum. esp since now they start that shit in early november.

I started crying today when I heard a song called "Christmas Shoes."

Of course, I start crying *anytime* I hear something cute/sweet/amazing a child does these days.
i dont know that one

i know ive lost MY mind when i get all sentimental over "the little drummer boy" the song makes NO sense.

What about "Hang Myself From the Tree" by the Vandals?

"Santa's Gonna Kick Your Ass" by The Arrogant Worms.

Mary Did you know was writen by Mark Lowry.

Funny Man.

What about "Hand Myself From the Tree" by the Vandals?
And what about Grandpa's Last Christmas?
My favourite Christmas song...in fact, the only Christmas song I like that most people will have heard, is Fairytale of New York by The Pogues/Kirsty MacColl.

My favourite Christmas song...in fact, the only Christmas song I like that most people will have heard, is Fairytale of New York by The Pogues/Kirsty MacColl.

Yeah, that's one of the few I can stomach: in a similar dark vein here's the Kinks' Father Christmas:

When I was small I believed in santa claus
Though I knew it was my dad
And I would hang up my stocking at christmas
Open my presents and I’d be glad

But the last time I played father christmas
I stood outside a department store
A gang of kids came over and mugged me
And knocked my reindeer to the floor

They said:
Father christmas, give us some money
Don’t mess around with those silly toys.
We’ll beat you up if you don’t hand it over
We want your bread so don’t make us annoyed
Give all the toys to the little rich boys

Don’t give my brother a steve austin outfit
Don’t give my sister a cuddly toy
We don’t want a jigsaw or monopoly money
We only want the real mccoy

Father christmas, give us some money
We’ll beat you up if you make us annoyed
Father christmas, give us some money
Don’t mess around with those silly toys

But give my daddy a job ’cause he needs one
He’s got lots of mouths to feed
But if you’ve got one, I’ll have a machine gun
So I can scare all the kids down the street

Father christmas, give us some money
We got no time for your silly toys
We’ll beat you up if you don’t hand it over
Give all the toys to the little rich boys

Have yourself a merry merry christmas
Have yourself a good time
But remember the kids who got nothin’
While you’re drinkin’ down your wine

Father christmas, give us some money
We got no time for your silly toys
We’ll beat you up if you don’t hand it over
We want your bread, so don’t make us annoyed
Give all the toys to the little rich boys

God bless you, Ray Davis.

the implausibly named Wankhands
Whaddya mean by that?
Since I posted on this thread last, I heard Fairytale of New York by none other than Ronan Keating. Before I heard it, I thought he should be shot. Now I think that shooting is too good for him.

Wankhands is my other country, btw.

A Spaceman Came Traveling by Chris de Burgh, it's on the album Spanish Train and other stories, wjich is great. It's entirly about the birth of christ, and none of that other crap.

"Christmas Time" by The Darkness. That's where it's at.
I can't stand most other christmas music. I've heard it all before so many times, and it just gets repeated over, and over, and over, and over :headbang: