I love listening to unusual Christmas songs. Everyone has heard "Grandma got run over by a reindeer" (lyrics here). That song has probably been banned in several homes.
This year, I heard a new one: an old Ray Stevens song called "Bad Little Boy" by Ray Stevens. If you're like me, you start laughing when you know it's from Ray Stevens. The lyrics are here. Seems Ray "ain't gettin' nothin' this Christmas". Now most people will confuse this with the song "I'm Getting Nuttin' for Christmas" (lyrics here). But they are two different songs.
Yesterday, I heard one that I'm not sure I ever heard before. The title is "I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas." You can find the musical version here on YouTube. I can just picture the little girl singing and marching to the song. You can find the lyrics (and youtube) here, but don't launch both websites at the same time.
What's your favorite "unusual" Christmas song?
5 comments:
Hey Randy,
I love "I Want a Hippopotamus For Christmas". We have it on a CD. It makes me smile!
OMGosh, I heard that RS song on the high school radio station today! LOL!
They do a show called, "Weird stuff for an hour."
Alli & Erik, yep, I played that for my girls and it's stuck in all our heads (P.S., Can I consider you one of my girls?)
Brooke, just about anything by Ray Stevens qualifies as "weird stuff"...
Somebody Stole My Santa Claus Suit
Actually, the origin of the hippo song was that it was being used to promote a new resident to a local zoo which just happened to be a hippo. Being around Christmastime, the song caught on, and ran amuck from there.....
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