Well here we are a week before Christmas and maybe the Christmas Spirit has found you at last. So post up your favorite Christmas songs and lyrics, be they serious or silly. I'll get us started with one of my favorites....

Percy the Puny Poinsettia - Elmo & Patsy

Percy the puny poinsettia
Is hanging his bloom in dismay
If they had just kept him wetta
He'd be a houseplant today
Folks liked the other plants betta
Now he's alone on the shelf
Even a plant with no uncle or aunt
Shouldn't spend Christmas Day by himself

Holiday shoppers would stop by the counter
And pick up a plant to take home
Until one by one all his friends were adopted
And Percy was left all alone

Percy the puny poinsettia
Is hanging his bloom in dismay
If they had just kept him wetta
He'd be a houseplant today
Folks liked the other plants betta
Now he's alone on the shelf
Even a plant with no uncle or aunt
Shouldn't spend Christmas Day by himself

Then into the store on the night before Christmas
Came a poor little girl who was cryin'
But when she saw Percy her eyes opened wide
And she said "Can I please make him mine?"

Now Percy the puny poinsettia
Is standing beside Mr. Tree
His leaves have never been redda,
He's as proud as a flower can be

Somebody made him feel betta,
Rescued him off of the shelf
Even a plant with no uncle or aunt
Shouldn't spend Christmas Day by himself

 

Vince Vance & The Valiants - All I Want For Christmas Is You
sung by Lisa Layne

Take back the holly and mistletoe
Silver bells on strings
If I wrote a letter to Santa Claus
I would ask for just one thing
I don’t need sleigh rides in the snow

Don’t wanna a Christmas that’s blue
Take back the tinsel, stockings, and bows
Cause all I want for Christmas is you

I don’t need expensive things, they don’t matter to me
All that I want can’t be found underneath the Christmas tree

You are the angel that tops my tree
You are my dream come true
Santa can’t bring me what I need
Cause all I want for Christmas is you

I don’t need expensive things, they don’t matter to me
All that I want can’t be found underneath the Christmas tree

You are the angel that tops my tree
You are my dream come true
Santa can’t bring me what I need
Cause all I want for Christmas is you

Cause all I want for Christmas is you
Cause all I want for Christmas is you

 

"Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" and "Merry Christmas Darling"

 

Bings' "White Christmas" (1954)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRYPWlyU_Zk

Elvis's "Blue Christmas" (1957)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK4BeD5I-Pk

 

First performed on December 24, 1818 in the village of Oberndorf Austria.

Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht,
Alles schläft; einsam wacht
Nur das traute hochheilige Paar.
Holder Knabe im lockigen Haar,
Schlaf in himmlischer Ruh!
Schlaf in himmlischer Ruh!

Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht,
Hirten erst kundgemacht
Durch der Engel Halleluja,
Tönt es laut von fern und nah:
Christ, der Retter ist da!
Christ, der Retter ist da!

Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht,
Gottes Sohn, o wie lacht
Lieb' aus deinem göttlichen Mund
, Da uns schlägt die rettende Stund'.
Christ, in deiner Geburt!
Christ, in deiner Geburt!

 

A Holly Jolly Christmas by Burl Ives


Have a holly jolly Christmas
It’s the best time of the year
I don’t know if there’ll be snow
But have a cup of cheer

Have a holly jolly Christmas
And when you walk down the street
Say hello to friends you know
And everyone you meet

Oh oh, the mistletoe hung where you can see
Somebody waits for you, kiss her once for me

Have a holly jolly Christmas
And in case you didn’t here,
Oh, by golly have a holly jolly Christmas this year!

Have a holly jolly Christmas
It’s the best time of the year

Have a holly jolly Christmas
And when you walk down the street
Say hello to friends you know
And everyone you meet

Oh oh, the mistletoe hung where you can see
Somebody waits for you, kiss her once for me!

Have a holly jolly Christmas
And in case you didn’t here,
Oh, by golly have a holly jolly Christmas this year!

 

Grandma got ranned over by a reindeer
Walking home from our house Christmas eve
You can say there's no such thing as Santa
But as for me and Grandpa, we believe

She'd been drinkin' too much egg nog
And we'd begged her not to go
But she'd forgot her medication
So she staggered out into the snow

When they found her Christmas mornin'
At the scene of the attack
She had hoof prints on her forehead
And Claus marks on her back

Grandma, She got ran over
She got ran over by a reindeer y'all
Grandma, She got ran over
She got ran over by a reindeer y'all

Grandma got ran over by a reindeer
Walkin' home from our house Christmas eve
You can say there's no such thing as Santa
But as for me and Grandpa, we believe

Now were all so proud of Grandpa
He's been takin' this so well
See him in there watchin' football
Drinkin' root beer and playin' cards with cousin Belle

It's not Christmas without Grandma
All the family's dressed in black
Do we open up her gifts or
Should we send them back?
[ From: http://www.elyrics.net/read/f/family...er-lyrics.html ]

Grandma, She got ran over
She got ran over by a reindeer y'all
Grandma, She got ran over
She got ran over by a reindeer y'all

Grandma got run over by a reindeer
Walkin' home from our house Christmas eve
You can say there's no such thing as Santa
But as for me and Grandpa, we believe

Now the goose is on the table
And the pudding's made of fig
And the blue and silver candle
Would have matched Grandma's wig

I've warned all my friends and neighbors
Better watch out for yourselves
They should never give a license
To a man who drives a sleigh and plays with elves

Grandma, She got ran over
She got ran over by a reindeer y'all
Grandma, She got ran over
She got ran over by a reindeer y'all

Grandma got run over by a reindeer
Walkin' home from our house, Christmas eve
You can say there's no such thing as Santa
But as for me and Grandpa, we believe!

(Grandma)But as for me and Grandpa, we believe!
(She got ran over) But as for me and Grandpa, we
believe!

 

C'mon, cmon!
C'mon, you can do it!

All right!
Dashing through the snow
in my Rusty Chevrolet
Down the road I go
Sliding all the way
I need new piston rings
I need some new snow tires
My car is held together
By a piece of chicken wire

Oh, rust and smoke, the heater's broke
The door just blew away
I light a match to see the dash
And then I start to pray
The frame is bent, the muffler went
The radio, it's okay
Oh what fun it is to drive
This Rusty Chevrolet

I went to the IGA
To get some Christmas cheer
I just passed up my left front tire
And it's getting hard to steer
Speeding down the highway
Right past a county cop
I have to drag my swampers
Just to get the car to stop

Oh, rust and smoke, the heater's broke
The door just blew away
I light a match to see the dash
And then I start to pray
The frame is bent, the muffler went
The radio, it's okay
Oh what fun it is to drive
This Rusty Chevrolet

Bouncing through the snowdrifts
In a big blue cloud of smoke
People laugh as I drive by
And I wonder what's the joke
Got to get to Wal-Mart
To pick up the lay-away
'Cause Santa Claus is coming soon
In his big old rusty sleigh

Oh, rust and smoke, the heater's broke
The door just blew away
I light a match to see the dash
And then I start to pray
The frame is bent, the muffler went
The radio, it's okay
Oh what fun it is to drive
This Rusty Chevrolet

 

In Russia, Christmas is almost no celebrated. The main holiday - the New Year. I know - in the United States conversely.
We have no Christmas songs, except for temple hymns and carols. But New Year songs are, they are many and they are funny.
I do not know whether you have it in the U.S.. But Russia has a "New Year" movies. Not just about the "new year" topics, namely, movies for the holiday table. Its do not show in the summer or spring. But every year 31 December each family turns TV and watching "The Irony of Fate ..". If a some channel is not provide for this movie in its schedule of December 31 - this is nonsense, like ignore the president's appeal to the nation in honor of the New Year.