Someone in the GOP asked for new, or different Christmas music. Here are a couple of odd Christmas songs. The first, for your listening pleasure, is Santa’s Christmas Rapping, by the Capital Steps, about 2012.

Next, the world turned upside down. The song the British played as a retreat at Yorktown was originally a Christmas song against Oliver Cromwell, 1764, who’d cancelled Christmas.

Here is a link to the U-tube version with original words. Other words were later added, referring to the Colonies. “When the King enjoys his own again“. Same tune, different words.

Here’s the military version:

Here are two more, reasonably modern, more in tune with religion. Emerson, Lake, and Palmers, “I believe in Father Christmas” and always in tune, Jethro Tull’s, “Christmas Song.”

And I should add something for chanukah. Here’s “Honeky Hanukkah”, by Woody Guthrie, and “The Hanukkah Dance” also by Woody Guthrie. Woody’s not mostly known for Jewish music — mostly for union songs, but his mother had been a famous yiddish songwriter. Woody wrote at least 2 more Channuka songs, BTW.

Robert Buxbaum, Dec 21, 2016.