Names of Holidays
It's a big holiday season in the U.S., with Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas all about evenly spaced in the last three week of the year, and then New Year's. I'm hoping there will be songs I've never heard of, about other countries' holidays. Any Guy Fawke's songs? What's worth singing about in New Zealand or Australia? Are there Canadian holidays with songs?
That photo is months old. Those morning glories are way up the wire and into the tree now. We have three such compost bins, and the hog wire can be unhooked to unload, and then set up again in a new place, and flowers planted around it in the new spot next year.
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I went to the bank this morning
And the cashier said to me
If you join the Christmas club
We'll give you ten little flags for free...
John Prine, "Your Flag Decal Won't Get You Into Heaven Anymore"
And even if the sun refused to shine,
Even if romance ran out of rhyme,
You would still have my heart until the end of time
You're all I need, my love, my valentine
Valentine ~ Jim Brickman & Martina McBride
Grandma got run over by a reindeer
Coming home from our house Christmas Eve
And so this is Christmas,
and what have you done?
Happy Christmas ~ John Lennon
On the 12th day of Christmas my true love gave to me......
12 Days of Christmas
If someone comes down your chimney tonight,
you'd better grab your gun and shoot to kill,
Cause it's Christmas at Ground Zero...
Christmas at Ground Zero - "Weird Al" Yankovich
We won't be back until it's Christmas Day
Take me out tonight
Rent
Sure was a bitter winter but Friday will be fine,
And maybe last year's Easter dress will serve her one more time.
Lies - Stand Rogers
This is Halloween, this is Halloween
Pumpkins scream in the dead of night
Danny Elfman
for the movie The Nightmare Before Christmas
Christmas is like Solstice,
And we miss you,
And it's been a while
Dar Williams, "The Christaians and the Pagans"
Heading up to San Francisco
For the Labor Day weekend show
Come Monday
Jimmy Buffet
From his beard to his boots
He was covered in ammo
Like a big fat drunk disgruntled
Yuletide Rambo
And he smiled as he said
With a twinkle in his eye
"Merry Christmas to all
Now you're all gonna die"
"The Night Santa Went Crazy," Weird Al
You make it feel like Christmas,
even when things go wrong
You Make It Feel Like Christmas ~ Neil Diamond
We never get together at all
Till the last day of Hannukah
I got you a harmonica
And a bag of chocolate coins
The only thing we have is fights
But there's got to be a change tonight
Please be nice on this feast of lights
Feast of Lights
They Might Be Giants
Here's a real tear jerker:
He always said he'd make it on his own.
Spending Christmas Eve alone
First Christmas away from home
First Christmas - Stan Rogers
Here comes Peter Cottontail, hopping down the bunny trail, hippity hoppity Easter's on its way.
So when you're out on Halloween
and he appears upon the scene
Don't give a scream and run away
just ask him if he'll stay and play
You'll love the boogie-woogie ghost
He'll be the one you dig the most
He goes "Boooooooo..."
---I learned this in 4th grade, I have no idea where it came from!
It's fifty long springtimes since she was a bride, but still you may see her at each Whitsuntide
In a dress of white linen with ribbons of green, as green as her memories of loving.
Dancing At Whitsun, English folk song, I think contemporary rather than traditional, no idea of the original performer.
In the 1980s, Whitsun became Spring Bank Holiday. Very unromantic.
Through the doorway of a dream
Beneath the spell the darkness spins
Two worlds entwine, in shadow and sheen
And winter beckons, enter in.
Samhain, Samhain
And we call this night Samhain
Samhain, Samhain
Call this magic night Samhain.
I remember a bit of a Guy Fawkes song...
Remember, remember
the fifth of November the gunpowder, treason and plot
blah, blah, blah (can't remember this part - g)
Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes
etc, etc.
But the night is Halloween, lady
And the morrow's Hallow's Day
So win me, win me, an ye can
For well I wot ye may.
Tam Lin
some old ballad, but today's the day!
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