CHRISTMAS MUSIC (most of which is twisted)
2011 Releases
(This Ain’t
Your Grandfather’s) White Christmas [This didn’t used to be a
Christmas song]
It Is
Over (Happy Christmas) [You know, I never liked the original version of
this one]
It’s
The Most Stressful Time of the Year [Sorry, I don’t have Andy
Williams’ voice]
2010 Releases
I Wonder as I Wander (an untraditional rendering of an old melody)
2009 RELEASES:
Resolution (my wife says this
isn’t one of my better parodies—I’ll try to do better next
year!) [lyrics]
Please Go Home for
Christmas (with a lot of
help from my Sophomore Seminar students) [lyrics]
2008 RELEASES
O Come O Come Emmanuel
(a.k.a. what would happen if the band Rush
got caught at a monastary during a snowstorm at
Christmas?)
When the Bills Come
Pouring In (suggested by my wife, Terry)
EARLIER RELEASES
Another
Tear-Jerking Christmas Song++ (if I never hear “Christmas Shoes again it
will be too soon!)
Bring Those Funky
Presents Santa
Please Stop Ye Merry Gentlemen (Acapella)
Please Stop Ye Merry
Gentlemen
No Place Like Walmart for the Holidays
Online Presents Coming
to Town
The 12 Digital Days
of Christmas
Up For The
Bargains (Black Friday)
Rudolph Got Run
Over By My Grandma (v2)
Bad King Wenceslas (did
Scrooge write this?)
Here We Come A Caroling
(instrumental)
All
lyrics by Bill Griffin except “O Come O Come Emmanuel,” “I
Wonder as I Wander,”and “Rudolph.” Music and lyrics
on ++ by Bill Griffin. All instruments (6 & 12 string guitars,
electric guitars, bass, mandolin, harmonica, percussion and synthesizer
programming) and vocals by Bill Griffin except #additional vocals by