Chad wants seasonal songs that don't suck, he already knows about the Pogues.
I keep tellin' ya:
- The definitive short song selection of Icelandic carols - youtube is blocking embedded links on this one - click through if you want to see what we had to grow up with.
Hey, if my kids have to march in circles pretending to hold a walking stick, so should yours... - Dubba, dubba, dum-dum.
I'm tellin' ya.
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Ok, it is hard to beat...
"Pabbi Komdu Heim..." might match it for pathos but not for grit.
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Dood, I don't know what your culture does, but where I come from it is crucial.
I was going to explain in a timely manner, but:
firstly - if you don't get an evergreen and some candles going, then winter will never end
secondly - if the kids don't get candles, clothes and a game, the yule cat will eat them
thirdly - you have to keep the yule lads amused, so they will not play pranks on you, if you're too mean their mother will kidnap you, and she is a troll, you know
fourthly - the Feast of St Thorlacius is the Only occasion upon which real men have an excuse to eat some fermented shark, except of course on the feast of offerings to Thor to mark the end of winter
I don't believe in no coke swilling faux cypriot priest, but the elves don't care if you believe in them or not. Oh, and Krampus will still get you anyway.