“It went zzzip when it moved
and BOP when it stopped
and whiRRRRed when it stood still.
I never knew just what it was
and I guess I never will.”
“The Marvelous Toy” by Tom Paxton
I wish it could be Christmas Everyday
If you are going to be strumming a guitar you must learn the Happy Xmas (war is over) John Lennon.
When the River meets the Sea from Emmet Otter’s Jugband Christmas.
Santa Claus is coming to town (Jackson 5 or the Boss take you pick)
Merry Christmas-if that’s OK and A Patrick Swayze Christmas by the MST3K folks
Thanks for the tips. As I’m nearly clueless about music, is there a way I can hear some or all of these songs on the Internet, that’s legal? I’ve gone to Amazon and listened to the few 30-second bits that I could find, which is very few of them in the first place. Of course I’ll buy albums of the songs that I want to learn, but I’d sure like to be able to listen to them first, and many of these songs/albums are on the obscure side.
So please clue me in, if there’s a way.
A Christmas standard over here is Slade’s Merry Christmas Everybody (so standard in fact that any British Dopers will groan at the very mention of it).
But anyhow this site lets you buy sheet music for it (including guitar notation apparently), here are the lyrics for it, and in the absence of a proper audio link, this one lets you hear a cellphone ringtone version of it.
More suggestions here (and poetic justice that this is my 666[sup]th[/sup] post).