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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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