Bizarre Christmas carols

Benjamin [inactive] · Bizarre Christmas carols

I was just thinking about how strange the words of some Christmas carols actually are. Do you know any Christmas carols/songs in whatever language with silly or strange lyrics?

Here's a less-common English one, known either as the Sans Day Carol or the St Day Carol, which I like very much:

Now the holly bears a berry as white as the milk,
And Mary bore Jesus, all wrapped up in silk;
And Mary bore Jesus Christ, our Saviour for to be,
And the first tree in the greenwood, it was the holly.
Holly! Holly!
And the first tree in the greenwood, it was the holly!

Now the holly bears a berry as green as the grass,
And Mary bore Jesus, who died on the cross;
And Mary bore Jesus Christ, our Saviour for to be,
And the first tree in the greenwood, it was the holly.
Holly! Holly!
And the first tree in the greenwood, it was the holly!

Now the holly bears a berry as black as the coal,
And Mary bore Jesus, who died for us all;
And Mary bore Jesus Christ, our Saviour for to be,
And the first tree in the greenwood, it was the holly.
Holly! Holly!
And the first tree in the greenwood, it was the holly!

Now the holly bears a berry, as blood is it red,
Then trust we our Saviour, who rose from the dead;
And Mary bore Jesus Christ, our Saviour for to be,
And the first tree in the greenwood, it was the holly.
Holly! Holly!
And the first tree in the greenwood, it was the holly!

The tune can be found here:
http://www.hymnsandcarolsofchrist..._and_Carols/MIDI/SansDayCarol.mid

Uriel

Guess you haven't heard of "Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer".

So far, I have escaped hearing it this year. But I haven't turned on the radio, either -- just in case!

Deborah

Deborah

The lyrics to one of my favorite Christmas carols aren't funny, but the repeated line sounds funny in English: Fum, Fum, Fum

I always thought it was a Spanish song, but I just learned that it's Catalan. "Fum" is supposed to be the sound of guitar being strummed or of a particular type of drum.