We have asked a whole slew of Gonzofolk for their top five favourite Christmas songs (secular, sacred or both), and will be printing a list, and showing a video every day until after Christmas. Today we talk to Thom the World Poet:
1.MERRY
XMAS(War Is Over) (John Lennon/Yoko Ono)
2.CHRISTMAS
IS COMING (the geese are getting fat)
3.GLOUCESTERSHIRE
WASSAIL
4.SOLSTICE
CHANT (Thom)
5.Where
The Dickens Is Christmas? (Thom)
WHERE THE DICKENS IS CHRISTMAS?
In these HARD TIMES, it seems best
to
have GREAT EXPECTATIONS!
to
let joy ring!to sing A CHRISTMAS CAROL
rather
than carry a BLEAK HOUSE
like
an empty heart's HOUSE TO LET
Happiness
is OUR MUTUAL FRIEND
(that
is GEORGE SILVERMAN's EXPLANATION)
Live
like DOMBEY AND SON-
cheerful
as OLIVER TWIST or DAVID COPPERFIELD!
Even LITTLE DORRIT
or MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT knew this-
MASTER
HUMPHREY's CLOCK/CHIMES for all of us
There
is NO THOROUGHFARE in the BATTLE OF LIFE!
You
may balance the HAUNTED MAN and the GHOST's BARGAIN
but
in a TALE OF TWO CITIES,it is no HOLIDAY ROMANCE!
If
you lost your PICKWICK PAPERS or your AMERICAN NOTES
in
an OLD CURIOSITY SHOP,NICHOLAS NICKLEBY would say
it
is just like the MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD-or a
LAZY
TALE OF TWO APPRENTICES.BARNABY RUDGE knew that!
So
chirp and chirrup like A CRICKET ON THE HEARTH!
CHRISTMAS
HAS GONE TO THE DICKENS!
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