Yes … that is the one and only time I can forgive use of that song.
My WAG is that one reason the song is unpopular is because it is one of the few Christmas songs that has no root in Scripture whatsoever - it is a completely made-up fictional story/song. Unlike all the others about shepherds, angels, etc. which actually were mentioned in the Gospels.
Which explains the great love for and constant airing of secular classics such as “Jingle Bells Rock,” “It’s Cold Outside,” etc.?
Let’s face it: Scriptural faithfulness has nothing to do with Christmas or the shit music forced upon anyone who has to go out in public these days.
Another non-scriptural song that sucks ass is Do You Hear What I Hear? Let’s see- Yeah, the night wind talks to a fucking lamb. Sure, that happens. Then the lamb talks to a shepherd boy. Who is the shepherd boy, Doctor Dolittle? Then the boy talks to the mighty king. Sure, mighty kings grant audiences to shepherd boys all the livelong day. Why didn’t the night wind talk to the mighty king in the first place?
Or Rudolph. I’ve never heard people hate on the theme song to “Rudolph, the Red Nosed Reindeer”, even though I hear it all the time in the x-mas season. But that’s pretty non-scriptural.
Seconded.
The song itself doesn’t bother me, but if there’s no’el’ then shoudn’t it just be Ih-is-RYE’? 
Like Luke 2:60–75 where Jeannette Isabella lights a torch while the three ships come sailing in.
I’ve so consistently found the overall sound of the song so off-putting that I’ve never gotten to the point of figuring out what the actual words are, other than the title line and its variations in the song.
In general, the whole ‘non-scriptural’ thing doesn’t bother me much. Hell, most of the ‘Christmas’ songs you’ll hear in stores during the next month won’t be about anything related to Scripture or the birth of Jesus, they’ll be just seasonal songs, “it’s lovely weather for a sleigh ride together with you” and that sort of stuff.
None of that bothers me, I’d just like the seasonal songs they play to be songs that are enjoyable to listen to.
I don’t really care about the song one way or 'tother, but if I never heard it again for the rest of my life, that would be OK.
Non-scriptural songs are okay, White Christmas is a classic. But if the song is religious in nature I think it should have some basis in scripture or at the very least be reasonable.
The basis in scripture is love and blessed are the meek.
“Again Jesus said, ‘Simon son of John, do you love me?’
Peter answered, ‘yes, Lord, you know that I love you.’
And Jesus said, ‘then stop playing that goddamned song at me. I couldn’t stand it when I was a newborn, and it hasn’t improved with age.’”
- Not John 21:16
Does a mash-up with Ravel’s Bolero count?
Yeah, it’s still pretty repetitive–but then, so is Bolero. 
I prefer Peter Griffin’s version.
I found this a few years ago somehow and I wonder how I missed it the first time around.
Grace Jones sings Little Drummer Boy at Pee Wee’s Playhouse
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Grace Jones sings Little Drummer Boy at Pee Wee’s Playhouse
[/QUOTE] I love everything about that.I did a count one year. It came out to about 50% seasonal, 40% secular Christmas, 9% Religious, and 1% “Favorite things” which is none of the above. (But I do enjoy iy).
I had to go look. And now I gotta change my pants, 'cause I just wet them laughing.
Just give him the damned drum, you stupid kid. (My most hated Christmas song is “Snoopy and the Red Baron Christmas”.)
Which is kind of sad, that all those perfectly cromulent fun-in-the-snow tracks only make it on air to four days past the solstice when most of winter is still to come.
And I like the distinction with the intermediate “secular Christmas” i.e. directly allusive to the holiday but non-devotional.