howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Captain Haddock
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It's Chrissi for me
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Forgot about that one Bob but I still think Shane, Kirsty and the lads have the edge.
Altogether now one, two, three.
"Christmas time mistletoe and wine" they don't make them like that anymore - thankfully.
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Reginald Barrington
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Bob dylan:it must be santa
Arte et Marte
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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And here's my favourite piece of Christmas poetry ever.
Christmas by John Betjeman
The bells of waiting Advent ring,
The Tortoise stove is lit again
And lamp-oil light across the night
Has caught the streaks of winter rain
In many a stained-glass window sheen
From Crimson Lake to Hookers Green.
The holly in the windy hedge
And round the Manor House the yew
Will soon be stripped to deck the ledge,
The altar, font and arch and pew,
So that the villagers can say
'The church looks nice' on Christmas Day.
Provincial Public Houses blaze,
Corporation tramcars clang,
On lighted tenements I gaze,
Where paper decorations hang,
And bunting in the red Town Hall
Says 'Merry Christmas to you all'.
And London shops on Christmas Eve
Are strung with silver bells and flowers
As hurrying clerks the City leave
To pigeon-haunted classic towers,
And marbled clouds go scudding by
The many-steepled London sky.
And girls in slacks remember Dad,
And oafish louts remember Mum,
And sleepless children's hearts are glad.
And Christmas-morning bells say 'Come!'
Even to shining ones who dwell
Safe in the Dorchester Hotel.
And is it true,
This most tremendous tale of all,
Seen in a stained-glass window's hue,
A Baby in an ox's stall ?
The Maker of the stars and sea
Become a Child on earth for me ?
And is it true ? For if it is,
No loving fingers tying strings
Around those tissued fripperies,
The sweet and silly Christmas things,
Bath salts and inexpensive scent
And hideous tie so kindly meant,
No love that in a family dwells,
No carolling in frosty air,
Nor all the steeple-shaking bells
Can with this single Truth compare -
That God was man in Palestine
And lives today in Bread and Wine.
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"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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It's coming on Christmas
They're cutting down trees
They're putting up reindeer
And singing songs of joy and peace
I wish I had a river
I could skate away on
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Brian Dixon
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this is my all time favourite xmass tune.
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Guest 713- Registered: 19 Mar 2011
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MY FAVOURITE IS "I BELIVE IN FATHER CHRISTMAS -GREIG LAKE THE BEST IN M,Y OPINION
Weird Granny Slater
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For me a good Christmas song needs to be communal and belted out with big hearts, to acknowledge the old ways, but also reference that lot from the Middle East (I think they're called Christians) who half-inched our good English pagan symbolism for nefarious religious purposes, to be joyous and to be (to quote Nietzsche on Beethoven's 7th) 'the apotheosis of the dance'. Ideally it would be something by the Watersons (or Waterson : Carthy), but this little beauty (the b-side of 1972's Gaudete) by Steeleye Span is what I'll go for. (You may not be familiar with the tune, by the way, as it's not the one picked up by Cecil Sharp from Mrs Clayton in Chipping Camden that we normally hear sung by angelic choirboys.)
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'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Guest 1914- Registered: 12 Nov 2016
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Love this one
Guest 2432- Registered: 25 Dec 2017
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There are many Christmas songs available online but I most like a song which starts from "We Wish You A Merry Christmas".
Guest 2443- Registered: 2 Jan 2018
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One of my favorite song! This melody made Christmas for some. What's more, for some other Christmases.