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And my favourite Christmas song! As an atheist I find Christmas if full of great songs with, as Minchin puts it, dodgy lyrics. I am thankful he wrote something this beautiful to fill the gap.

This performance is 13 years or so after Tim Minchin wrote it. He chokes up a few times, particularly on the part about his mum as I believe she had recently passed when he performed.

#ChristmasSongs #Christmas #TimMinchin

youtube.com/watch?v=x1rw1fx170

Looking up lyrics to sing along…

🎶 Last Christmas, I gave you my heart
But the very next day, you gave it away
Could you maybe
Provide me
With that person's address
Or at least their email
Who has it now?
I guess I should coordinate something with them
Unless they've given it away to someone else too
Might need some significant tracing required here!
🎵

The lyrics cover a lot more detail on the situation than I realized.

Even Santa's helpers need a well earned drink this time of year so come and join us tomorrow for a festive sing-a-long, good cheer and a drop of Santa's Slice, our Christmas Cake Porter brewed with #SomerValleyBrewing.

We'll also have some mulled drinks available and a boozy hot chocolate to warm you from your insides out. @breakoutvoices choir will be dropping by at 4pm to lead the sing-a-long outside, if it's not too nippy.

I have restrained myself from using my favorite festive song in any post this month—🎵Christmas don’t be late🎵 by Alvin & The Chipmunks is the best, and I’d die on that hill.

(I’ll really never understand why my brain can’t handle the sound of someone munching next to me, but it’s perfectly fine with these high-pitched critters 🐿️🐿️🐿️)
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Continued thread

“Carol of the Bells” is actually a Ukrainian song called “Shchedryk.” Oksana Ostapchuk and Myroslava Tanska-Vikulova of @timkmak’s Counteroffensive explain the history of the song, and its significance to one American who’s volunteering in Kyiv.

counteroffensive.news/p/the-uk

The Counteroffensive with Tim Mak · The Ukrainian history of your favorite Christmas carolBy Oksana Ostapchuk