“Have a holly jolly Christmas, and in case you didn’t hear
Well, by golly have a holly joll–”
You JUST told us to have a holly jolly Christmas two seconds ago! Of course we fucking heard! How stupid do you think we are? Indeed, do you have the attention span of a gnat, Burl? I assure you, we remember your wishing us a holly jolly Christmas in the literal PREVIOUS LINE OF THE SONG.
This is up there for most insipid, space-filler Christmas song lyric, right? With “Whoop-de-doo and dickery dock”.
The ONLY good thing about being stuck indoors this whole month with a foot injury (it’s been better since last Friday) is that I haven’t been aurally assaulted by the same twenty or so songs that get played in every supermarket and other public places this time of year. Hell, I’m doing excellent in Whammageddon this year–I haven’t heard “Last Christmas” ONCE so far. That being said, the more I get out (really, the ankle’s improved) the more likely I am to hear it. I got “Rudolph”, “Winter Wonderland”, and “Baby It’s Cold Outside” killing time in a bookstore today.
In short: fuck the Jingle Bell Rock, fuck rockin’ around the Christmas tree, and fuck Burl Ives.
I mean, it’s not like there’s a shortage of good Christmas music. We’ve been singing about the season for over a millennium now, plenty of time to sort the wheat from the chaff. Most of it is even in the public domain (at least the music). Why do we even need this trash at all?
I work in IT. I have, literally, told someone to click on a button, and a milisecond following, they ask what they should click. I have told them to look at the screen, and tell me what it says. And in .5 seconds, they’ve forgotten it.
Yes. Burl thinks your stupid, because I’m sure you’ve already FORGOTTEN TO BE JOLLY!.
Just for you - a Burl Ives Christmas song collection. The first tune is “Overture and A Holly Jolly Christmas”, and the last selection is, in case you didn’t hear, “A Holly Jolly Christmas”.
Burl also does a terrific version of “Christmas At Ground Zero”.
I hate nearly all Christmas/Holiday music. I enjoy Holly Jolly Christmas. In a season full of phony saccharine smiles, Ives seems to be genuinely happy. If he passed you on the street, he’d give you a hearty welcome and offer you booze from a flask under his jacket.
Well, that might explain his short-term memory loss.
I somehow didn’t encounter this (the actual McCartney song) until 2012, when I was visiting my sister who was teaching English in France. How did that happen? Where was it for 22 years?
Yeah, but Burl sings it so he gets my immediate attention. Also, I’m not going to look up the origins of Christmas songs I’m sick of. That being said, fuck Marks’ unimaginative writing skills as well.
