Entries tagged with “hogmanay children” from smudie

It's snowing in Paris, and I have just learned that the Christmas song I wrote with The Hogmanay Children has been released on the compilation album Chantons Noël avec Olga Records.

Admittedly, Like Every Christmas Eve may not be the happiest Christmas ditty you've ever heard, but with its mix of Japanese karaoke-style vocals in the first verse, a drunken church organ all the way through and some harmonies at the end that the Beach Boys would have died for, it still manages to be uplifting despite the somewhat morose subject matter.

Merry Christmas, and all that.

• Like Every Christmas Eve
  

I left a beer
for Santa near
my stocking by the fire,
hoping that he
would bring to me
what my heart most desires.

Like every Christmas Eve,
I can't get off to sleep.
I wish that you were here.

There, underneath
the Christmas tree,
a present might have been
wrapped in shiny
paper and
left by someone who loves me.

Like every Christmas Eve,
I can't get off to sleep.
I wish that you were here.

My baby's gone.
Baby's gone and
he's never coming back.
My baby's gone.
I'm all alone.
Merry Christmas, and all that.

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This song is performed by The Hogmanay Children. It appears on the compilation album Chantons Noël avec Olga Records, and is available for free download on the Olga Records website.