Guess that (Christmas) song

[jethrien]

When the song meme went around a few weeks ago, I had the idea of doing the same thing for Christmas songs. And since I consider everything to be fair game for Christmas once Santa passes by in the Thanksgiving parade, it's close enough I can actually do it.

So - guess the song from the given line. I think it's a nice mix of obscure lines from common songs and obvious lines from obscure songs. Unguessed songs will be in bold; answers will be posted in a few days.

1. "Hear the snow crunch, see the kids bunch"
2. "Until then we'll have to muddle through somehow"
3. "Want a plane that loops the loop"
4. "To see if reindeer really know how to fly"
5. "While fields and floods, rocks, hills and plains"
6. "Say, what's in this drink?"
7. "And a blue and silver candle that would just have matched the hair in Grandma's wig"
8. "What I want can't be found underneath the Christmas tree"
9. "Put up the tree before my spirit falls again"
10. "And all the world give back the song which now the angels sing"
11. "Later we'll have some pumpkin pie and we'll do some caroling"
12. "And this song of mine in three quarter time"
13. "You'll be doing all right with your Christmas of white"
14. "There'll be scary ghost stories"
15. "They are not just plain deer - they're the fastest deer I know"
16. "The sturdy kind that doesn't mind the snow"
17. "Word of the father, now in flesh appearing"
18. "Mom says the hippo would eat me up, but then Teacher says a hippo is a vegetarian"
19. "Sorrowing, sighing, bleeding, dying, seal'd in the stone-cold tomb"
20. "In ancient times didst give the law in cloud and majesty and awe"
21. "And as I turned to make my way back home, the snow turned into rain"
22. "Ye who now will bless the poor shall yourself find blessing"
23. "Lo, within the manger lies he who built the starry skies"
24. "With a nauseous super "naus"!"
25. "And here is to Dobbin and to his right eye, Pray God send our master a good Christmas pie"

And as a special extra bonus, my nominees for Worst Christmas Songs ever, in order of increasing annoyingness:
W1. "Here we know that Christmas will be green and bright"
W2. "And oh what a joy, shopping all around for every pretty toy"
W3. "The label inside says they're made in Brooklyn"
W4. "For rich and the poor ones the world is so wrong"
W5. "And I want her to look beautiful if Mama meets Jesus tonight"

Comments

[nanonicole.livejournal.com]

I broke out the Christmas playlist on my walk to class this morning... =)

3. The Chipmunk Christmas Song
7. Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer
11. Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree

W3. Dominic the Italian Christmas Donkey
W5. Christmas Shoes (I think that's what it's called... it drives me nuts too)

[chuckro.livejournal.com]

1. "Silver Bells"
4. "Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire" (or if that's not the title, at least it's the first line)
6. "Baby, It's Cold Outside"
18. "I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas"

I knew 3 and 7, too. Guessing #9 (I can't hear it in my head, but it seems likely) is it "Need a Little Christmas?"

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

5. Joy to the World
7. Grandma got run over by a reindeer (OK, that's been guessed)
10. Hark the Herald (or is this Angels We Have Heard on High? I always confuse the two)
17. O Come All Ye Faithful
19. We Three Kings
22. Good King Whatsisface - er, Wenceslas
15. Wassail! Wassail! (this is called the Wassail song, yes?)

And I'm sure I know 2. Urg! It's tickling my brain!

Of course, I have to get all the christian ones. That's what you get for being in a chorus. And thank you for not putting in any lyrics from Lo, How a Rose. I abhor that song.

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

All correct.

"These Christmas Shoes" is the worst song ever.

[edgehopper.livejournal.com]

Is 8 "All I Want for Christmas is My Two Front Teeth"?

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

All correct. 4 is technically called "The Christmas Song" (which is a terrible name), but is usually then followed by "(Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)".

9 is "We Need a Little Christmas".

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

5,7,17,19,and 22 are correct.

I presume you meant 25, not 15, because your answer is correct for 25.

You probably do know 2. But I'll warn you - it's the original lyrics, not the better known ones.

And I love the melody to Lo, How a Rose, but the lyrics pretty much stink.

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

Nope, sorry.

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

10 was wrong? Crap! What other carols have angels in them...

Lo, How a Rose is pretty, yes, until you realise the melody is the same thing repeated three times for each verse. And it's slow too! You sing that for five verses and you want to shoot somebody. The only interesting part is "it came a floweret bright." That's the only bit with a different melody. Scant relief really. And since it's slightly prettier and slightly less well known than other carols, choruses always choose that one to sing.

Soooo happy I don't have to do a christmas concert this year.

[nanonicole.livejournal.com]

"I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas"...??? I've never heard of this one... where's it from?

[feiran.livejournal.com]

Of what's left, I know:

2) Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
13) Blue Christmas
21) Same Old Lang Syne

W4) Not sure on the exact title. It starts "So this is Christmas" and is by John Lennon.

Way to have the Chipmunk Christmas Song in there! Me, I want a hula hoop.

That W5 lyric is awful!

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

OK, I didn't know 2. I was being reminded of a camp song. But since "Gulicking Up" isn't exactly Chrismas-y and there's no way you would know a Biff Fink classic.

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

All correct.

W4 is Happy Christmas (War is Over). I think it's Yoko singing the War is Over Now. If so, she should be shot. No one with that horrifically nasal a voice should be allowed to record anything.

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

I think the 50s. Apparently it was written as a fundraiser for a zoo...

But it gets played on the radio a lot. The voice is really annoying (adult trying to be a cute child), but the lyrics are fun and I like it anyway.

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

Coventry Carol is bad that way, too.

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

And The First Noel.

[(Anonymous)]

All right, I waited and let you get most of the ones I know. Of those that are left, 12 is Christmas Waltz,sung by Karen Carpenter, 15 is "Jingle Jingle Jingle" from Rudolph, I know we did 20, and 23 in choir, but I can't remember the names. 10 is "It Came Upon a Midnight Clear. And fourteen continues...and tales of the glories of Christmases long long ago, but that's all I remember. Aaagh, frustrating meme!

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

10, 12, and 15 are correct.

We did indeed do 20 and 23 in choir, but that's not enough of an identifier. If it helps - 20 is very commonly known (just not that verse), 23 less so. I played my flute when we did 23.

14 does indeed continue "and tales of the glories of Christmases long long ago!" But that's not enough, either.

Speaking of 14 - has anyone actually ever heard of telling scary ghost stories as a Christmas tradition? I haven't. I guess it rhymes with "glories" - but that line isn't so compelling that it couldn't be cut in favor of something that made more sense.

[(Anonymous)]

14 - It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year. The others will come to me....someday.

[(Anonymous)]

The ghost stories thing has to be a reference to A Christmas Carol, but telling the same story more than once doesn't exactly make it plural. I don't know of any other ghost stories for Christmas.

[pmiller581.livejournal.com]

20 is O Come, O come, Emmanuel (oo ahh) - That's what I get for having our church choir sing the whole thing every year.

24 has got to be Dr. Suess ... Which leaves us with How the Grinch Stole Christmas ... I honestly don't remember the line, but the only song I remember is You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch.

W1 I can't spell, but it's from Mele Kalikimaka aka, the wise way, to say Merry Christmas to you.

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

You are indeed correct - as far as I can tell, the official title is "The Grinch Song".

(Right about the other two, also.)

[(Anonymous)]

Hey, how about 14? Was I right? Is 23 "Child of the Poor"?

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

Precisely my point. One ghost story. One.

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

And it's not really very scary.

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

14 is right. 23 is not.

[(Anonymous)]

Ok. But did we do it as a sort of duet with Child of the Poor?

Give it up! No one is going to get it. No one. NO ONE!!!! Too much holiday stress!!!!

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

No, Child of the Poor was a duet with What Child is This?.

I'll post the answers on Friday.

[(Anonymous)]

23 is See Amid the Winter Snow.