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Philip Doddy
Traditional Irish Music & Songs

Some other kinds of christmas songs...

A few years ago, alarmed once again by the wretched stuff that blares from shops, pubs and radios during the three months of christmas in Ireland, I started to wonder if any good, interesting, amusing or useful christmas-related songs had ever been written. I came up with a list of candidates. This year, now that this website is up and running, it occurred to me to assemble the list here in the form of youtube videos. So here we go...

If you have any further suggestions, send me a telegram. (Just don't mention any putrescent, putrid, pustular, purgatorial, puerile, puke-inducing or..(okay I'll stop now).. 'fairy-tales' of New York ....Shudder)

1. Tom Waits - Christmas card from a hooker in Minneapolis



3. Jack White - Christmas time will soon be over



5. Johnny Duhan - Your sure hands



7. Neil Young - Star of Bethlehem


9. Elvis Presley - Santa Claus is back in town


11. Tom Lehrer - A christmas carol


2. Loudon Wainwright - Christmas Morning



4. Bob Dylan - Three Angels

Unfortunately, this song has been removed from youtube for copyright reasons. 
You can listen to a cover version by clicking here, or better still, buy Bob's very nice 1970 album New Morning.
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6. Chuck Brodsky - On christmas I got nothing



8. John Prine - Christmas in Prison


10. Woody Guthrie - 1913 Massacre


12. Steve Earle - Christmas in Washington























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