I do my dangdest to be absent from church on the Sunday “The First Nowell” (that’s how it’s spelled in the Episcopal Hymnal) is sung. AAAAAAAAAAAARGH!!! I hate hate hate every note and syllable of that song!
I thought I was the only one who hated that song.
I’ve only heard it once, but it was enough -
For Christ’s Sake, It’s Christmas by George Strait.
I was in an Airport Shuttle, and the driver played Christmas songs on the entire, (almost) two hour ride. This was one of them. Nothing like an Evangelical, go out and convert the heathens Christmas carol.
…because the MOST important part of Christmas is to make sure everyone knows you’ve been a good Christian. :rolleyes:
Unfortunately I have heard it…
It sings of the boy not having gifts to bring the king. So he drums.
Which any parent with well-meaning relatives who gift their children with musical instruments will tell you, is NOT a gift…
No, but I will try to Google for it now.
Anybody seen the video of a guy on a toilet supposedly farting Jingle Bells while a friend does percussion on the floor?
Oops, correction. The person is operating a keyboard.
Still funny though.
That isn’t what I asked, though.
Where does the idea of a drummer boy at the Nativity come from?
Is it traditional, in some culture(s)?
Religious?
Marketing scam?
What? 
Well, here’s what Wikipedia has to say about it. Take it as you will.
I always wanted the little drummer boy to give his life for our sins. Where’s Mel Gibson when you really need him?
Bah.
Rumpumpum.
Pum.
Yep-the ass was indeed Dominick.
I wonder how Barbra feels, being asked to sing Christmas carols and all? Is that why she murders them with tortured delivery, screams and rushed intakes of breathe?
I’ll go out on a limb here and say that there are many Christmas songs that I enjoy and that mean alot to me–good agnostic that I am.
But I cannot stand the newer versions of alot of them. Bing is the ONLY person who should sing White Christmas. Period. That’s just one example. I don’t want to hear it funked up, hip-hopped, rapped, twanged to death in good ole Appalachia style or diva’ed, either.
Just sayin’.
No. She ‘sings’ everything that way.
If you haven’t had any luck, here it is.
More here:
Add a third Episcopalian vote against it. Any of you guys know how we can get a hold of a member of the Hymnal Committee? (No violence; it’s against the rules. We’ll just play him/her tapes of “A Grand Ol’ Opry Christmas” until he agrees to delete the %#%# thing from the next edition.)
kaylasmom hates to hear Michael Bolton (the no-talent assclown, not the cubicle drone) sing “White Christmas.” This is because, at the end of the verse, when Mr. Berlin wrote that he’s supposed to sing the notes:
he instead sings
This drives her crazy.
I’m terribly conflicted about Little Altar Boy, because I know the guy who wrote it to be a hypocritical, sanctimonious, glurge-composin’, cheatin’-on-his-wife prick, who betrayed my wife into a nervous breakdown twenty-three years ago.
But Karen sure did sing it pretty.
Amen. She totally messes with the meter on this, and ruins the song.
Not that it’s a work of art to begin with, but she turns it into utter crap.
And Rico caught on my pet peeve of My Favorite Things being played as a Christmas tune.
Perhaps Babs thought that since it mentioned “brown paper packages tied up with strings” that maybe that was referring to Christmas gifts.
It also mentions “snowflakes” and “winter”.
Naah…it’s a reference to porn. 