My favorite Christmas song as a child was “The Pretty Little Dolly” by Mona Abboud. This is from way back in 1966 and was performed live on the Johnny Carson show many years before I was born!

I first heard it on the radio while I was in the car looking at Christmas lights with my parents. I was probably around 6 years old and I thought it was the most hilarious song I had ever heard. I would go around singing this and my parents actually have it on video. They still like to show it to people to embarrass me! This song still makes me laugh whenever I hear it.

Here are the lyrics:

Dear santa claus:

my mommy and daddy said that if i was very good,
i could have whatever i wanted for christmas.

Well, i would like a dolly for christmas.
It is a very special dolly.
I saw it advertised on television.
In case you don’t know which dolly i mean,
i will try to describe it to you. Read More »

My favorite Christmas song is “White Christmas.” I grew up in NY but have lived in TN for 12 years now and have not had a single white Christmas.

I love the snow and have fond memories of sledding and snow man building from my childhood with my father who died when I was 12.

Lyrics White Christmas

I’m dreaming of a white Christmas
Just like the ones I used to know
Where the treetops glisten,
and children listen
To hear sleigh bells in the snow

I’m dreaming of a white Christmas
With every Christmas card I write
May your days be merry and bright
And may all your Christmases be white Read More »

My favorite Christmas song is “Breath Of Heaven (Mary’s Song)” sung by Amy Grant. I know this song because my mother played the entire CD it is on every Christmas.

Amy Grant’s “Home For The Holidays” CD says Christmastime to me. I have many fond memories of listening to it and singing these songs with my mother and siblings when I was younger.

We always had it on. Starting after Thanksgiving we would start playing (Well first on tape and then on a CD). We played it while we put up our Christmas tree, we played it while we made Christmas cookies.

We played it while we wrapped Christmas presents and various other times throughout the Christmas season. It is the soundtrack to my childhood Christmas memories and this song was my favorite.

My sister and I even dressed up and acted it out once for my parents. It just such a touching, deep song and it speak of Mary at the time of Jesus’ birth which is what the Christmas holiday is all about.

Amy Grant has such a beautiful, soulful voice. Now that I am grown and have my own children I also have this CD playing during the holidays. I have taught my young daughter this song and she likes it as much as I do. Read More »

Have You A Merry Little Christmas is definitely my favorite Christmas song. I’ve know this song from Christmas records my parents played when I was a kid. I especially remember the recording they played of the Carpenters singing this song.

I don’t have any funny stories about this song, because it is not a funny song. I used to like playing it on the piano a lot. I made a short film about two loners named Hugo and Ellora and I used this song.

They wander around their suburban hometown post-Christmas and come upon the town’s Christmas display. As they sit on the wheels of a toy train on the display, Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas played on the soundtrack.

It perfectly captured the feeling of alienation they were experiencing in their lonely town and how lost they felt about their lives. I believe this to be one of the saddest Christmas songs there are out there and it has a beautiful melody.

It was first sung by Judy Garland whose voice and persona definitely brought the sadness to this song. Frank Sinatra didn’t like how depressing the song was so he had some lines changed, but to me, that seems wrong. The depressing nature of this song is its whole point.

This and I’ll Be Home For Christmas are two songs that have real emotion in them. They’re not silly and jolly like Jingle Bells or other annoying Christmas tunes. There have been some great covers of Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas. Tori Amos and Coldplay both do great versions; both versions understand its melancholy. Read More »

The title of my favorite Christmas song is “Christmas in our Hearts” by a local Philippines artist named Jose Mari Chan.

I knew this song since I was just a kid, since me and my friends and cousins used to sing this when we go out caroling every night starting December 16 until Christmas Eve.

I remembered one Christmas Eve clearly, when we sang this song to one of the houses we decided to sing Christmas carols to. A little child came out with her mother and started singing the song with us.

It was my most memorable caroling trip. Having a child sing the lyrics to a heartfelt song just affected me in a way that I never dreamed possible. It’s like an angel singing the song to me. I like this song because it depicts the way Christmas should be, and its simple way, touched my heart and made me realize that Christmas should not only happen once a year but everyday of our lives. The song goes like this:

Lyrics Christmas in our Hearts

Whenever i see girls and boys selling lanterns on the street
I remember the child in the manger as he sleeps
Whenever there are people giving gifts exchanging cards
I believe that christmas is truly in there hearts
So let’s light our christmas trees for a bright tomorrow
Were nations are at peace,
And all are one in god Read More »

My favorite Christmas song is “The Holly and the Ivy”. “The Holly and the Ivy” is a traditional Christmas carol, which is among the most lightly Christianized carols of the Yuletide—the holly and the ivy being among the most familiar Druidic plants.

“Holly and ivy have been the mainstay of Christmas decoration for church use since at least the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, when they are mentioned regularly in churchwardens’ accounts” (Roud 2004).

The holly and the ivy,
When they are both full grown
Of all the trees that are in the wood
The holly bears the crown
O the rising of the sun
And the running of the deer
The playing of the merry organ
Sweet singing of the choir

The holly bears a blossom
As white as lily flower
And Mary bore sweet Jesus Christ
To be our sweet Saviour
O the rising of the sun
And the running of the deer
The playing of the merry organ
Sweet singing of the choir Read More »

Whenever I’m asked what my favorite Christmas song is only one song comes to mind, and that is “Some Day At Christmas” by Pearl Jam.

The song was originally done by Stevie Wonder but more recently Pearl Jam did a cover of it for the Christmas season.

I first heard this song in the car when I was a very little boy when I was with my mom. She of course played the Stevie Wonder version of it. I didn’t think much of the song at the time because back then I did not care much for music considering I was only four or five.

The only lyrics I could find for this song were for the Stevie wonder version. But it is ok because Pearl Jam used the same words.

Someday at christmas men won’t be boys
Playing with bombs like kids play with toys
one warm december our hearts will see
A world where men are free Read More »

Winter Wonderland Lyrics – The Movie “Elf” – It just reminds me of when she’s taking a shower and he walks in and they find each other there”

Winter Wonderland Lyrics

Sleigh bells ring, are you listening,
In the lane, snow is glistening
A beautiful sight,
We’re happy tonight.
Walking in a winter wonderland.

Gone away is the bluebird,
Here to stay is a new bird
He sings a love song,
As we go along,
Walking in a winter wonderland. Read More »

My favorite Christmas song is Away In a Manger. The version I like the best from the many many remakes of it is John Denver’s version. This song reminds me of my father. Being very into music, and Christmas being his favorite holiday, my father has a large selection of Christmas music.

They are all usually very well known songs but versions from artists that aren’t as main stream. My father played it for me for the first time when I was little; maybe eight or nine. I fell in love with it instantly.

The simplicity of the song impressed me with the fact that there weren’t a lot of sleigh bells and still had such a beautiful melody. The words sounded like something a child would sing before bedtime and although I am no longer a religious person I still find myself humming this song at twenty-three years old. Read More »

My favorite Christmas song has always been Little Drummer Boy. Our parents always played decorated the house and played Christmas music during the weeks leading up to Christmas.

Little Drummer Boy has a tune and that is the kind where you can not get it out of your mind after hearing it. How could anyone not like the lyrics and the story they tell in the song? A poor boy wanting so badly to give a gift when all he had to offer was to play his drum.

Making the journey and admitting that he was poor and had nothing much to give. Asking if he could give the only thing he had, playing his drum, and getting a nod from Mary. And when he played even the animals kept time with him.

He gave the only thing he had to give and he played his best. It ends with the baby smiling at him. Him and his drum. A great song and a great lesson for a child growing up.

Lyrics Little Drummer Boy Read More »