The Return Of Depressing Christmas Songs

by Chris Bodenner

A reader writes:

Hey, how about some links to those dreadful Christmas songs you posted last year?  Or am I going nuts and it was another blog?

Twas us. Enjoy:

Charlie Brown – "Christmas Time Is Here"

Sarah McLachlan – "Wintersong"

John Eddie – "Another Lonely Christmas"

Judy Garland – "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas"

Judy Garland – "After the Holidays"

Laura Nyro – "Christmas In My Soul"

Robert Earl Keen – "Merry Christmas From The Family"

NewSong – "The Christmas Shoes"

Woody Guthrie – "1913 Massacre"

Harvey Danger – "Sometimes You Have To Work On Christmas"

Stan Rogers – "First Christmas"

Paul Kelly – "How To Make The Gravy"

John Prine – "Christmas In Prison"

Peter Warlock – "Bethlehem Down"

Bing Crosby – "I'll be Home for Christmas"

Pogues – "The Old Main Drag"

Aimee Mann – "Calling on Mary"

Jonathan Coulton – "Christmas Is Interesting"

Merle Haggard – "If We Make It Through December"

Joni Mitchell – "River"

Tom Waits – "Christmas Card From A Hooker in Minneapolis"

Roy Orbison – "Pretty Paper"

Nina Simone – "Little Girl Blue"

Stephen Colbert and Elvis Costello – Christmas duet

Kyle Broflovski – "A Jew On Christmas"

Dwight Yoakam – "Santa Can't Stay"