This release was a first for The Wurzels - devoted as it was entirely to well-known Christmas songs. This CD of all-new material by The Wurzels was released on November 14th 2011 on the CIA record label, catalogue number CIA CD018. It was repressed several times in the ensuing years, all pressings being the same. Song Lyrics
At the time of the recording of this album The Wurzels consisted of Pete Budd, Tommy Banner, Sedge Moore and John Morgan. The CD was recorded and produced by part-time Wurzel Louie 'Gribble' Nicastro. Further musical contributions came from a multitude of guests as detailed on the case insert.
The packaging for this CD release was on a higher commercial level than all previous releases - from the CD imprinted with a Christmas dinner sat on a chequered table cloth to a very informative festive fold-out insert shown below.
A signed case insert is always a good addition to a collection as in this example - signed by Tommy Banner, Pete Budd, John Morgan Sedge Moore and Louie Gribble
Promotional flyer emailed out to members of the official social media subscriber's list in 2011 in advance of the album's release.
Track 1 White Christmas Ooh arr oohMerry Christmas everybody!Ooh arr, ooh arr ooh I'm dreaming of a white Christmas (ooh arr ooh) Just like the ones I used to know Where the treetops glisten, and children listen To hear sleigh bells in the snow I'm dreaming of a white Christmas (ooh arr ooh) With every Christmas card I write May your days be merry and bright (ooh arr ooh arr) And may all your Christmas's be white (ooh arr ooh) Come on everybody! (Repeat first verse) Jingle jingle all the way (Repeat second verse) I'm dreaming of a white Christmas Just like the ones I used to know Where the treetops glisten and children listen (ooh arr ooh arr) To hear the sleigh bells in the snow (ooh arr ooh)Sing it loud and proudI'm dreaming of a white Christmas (ooh arr ooh) With every Christmas card I write May your days be merry and bright (ooh arr ooh arr) And may all your Christmas's, be white Merry Christmas everybody, and a yo ho ho Track 2 Santa Claus Is Coming To Town Look out Santa's a-coming, a-coming Look out Santa's a-coming, a-coming Look out Santa's a-coming, a-coming Look out Santa's a-coming, a-coming You better watch out, you better not cry Better not pout, I'm telling you why Santa Claus is coming to town He's making a list, and checking it twice Gonna find out who's naughty and nice Santa Claus is coming to town He sees you when you're sleeping He knows when you're awake He knows if you've been bad or good So be good for goodness sake You better watch out, you better not cry Better not pout, I'm telling you why Santa Claus is coming to town Santa Claus is coming to town Yeah yeah yeah Santa Claus is coming to town Everybody altogether now Santa Claus is coming to town Bring it on Santa Claus is coming to town Everybody sing Santa Claus is coming to town Everybody's gonna sing Santa Claus is coming to town Look out Santa's a-coming, a-coming Look out Santa's a-coming, a-coming Look out Santa's a-coming, a-coming Look out Santa's a-coming, a-coming Ooh arr, ooh arr Santa Claus is coming to town He sees you when you're sleeping He knows when you're awake He knows if you've been bad or good So be good for goodness sake You better watch out, you better not cry Better not pout, I'm telling you why Santa Claus is coming to town Santa Claus is coming to town Yeah yeah yeah Santa Claus is coming to town Everybody altogether now Santa Claus is coming to town Bring it on Santa Claus is coming to town Everybody sing Santa Claus is coming to town Everybody's gonna sing Santa Claus is coming, Santa Claus is coming Santa Claus is coming to town Track 3 Merry Christmas Everybody Are you hanging up the stocking on your wall It's the time that every Santa has a ball Will he ride a red nosed reindeer Does a ton up on his sleigh Do the fairies keep him sober for a day (Chorus) So here it is, Merry Christmas, everybody's having fun Look to the future now, it's only just begun Are you waiting for the family to arrive Are you sure you've got the room to spare inside Does your Granny always tell you That the old songs are the best Then she's up and rock and rolling with the rest (Repeat chorus) What will your Daddy do when he sees your Mammy kissing Santa Claus Ooh arr, ooh arr Are you hanging up the stocking on your wall Are you hoping that the snow will start to fall Do you ride on down the hillside In a buggy you have made When you lands upon your head then you've been slayed (Repeat chorus twice) So here it is, Merry Christmas, everybody's having fun It's Christmas Look to the future now, it's only just begun (Repeat chorus) Track 4 Sleigh Ride Let's go! (Verse one) Just hear those sleigh bells jingling, ring ting tingling too Dingaling a-ling a-dingdongding Come on it's lovely weather for a sleigh ride together with you Dingaling a-ling a-dingdongding Outside the snow is falling and friends are calling yoo-hoo Dingaling a-ling a-dingdongding Come on it's lovely weather for a sleigh ride together with you Giddy up, giddy up, giddy up let's go Let's look at the show (let's look at the show) We're riding in a wonderland of snow, wheee! Giddy up, giddy up, giddy up it's grand Just holding your hand We're gliding along with the song of a wintry fairyland (Verse two) Our cheeks are nice and rosy and comfy 'n cosy are we Dingaling a-ling a-dingdongding We're snuggled up together like two birds of a feather would beDingaling a-ling a-dingdongding Let's take that road before us and sing a chorus or two Dingaling a-ling a-dingdongding Come on it's lovely weather for a sleigh ride together with you Dingaling a-ling a-dingdongding Dingaling a-ling a-dingdongding Dingaling a-ling a-dingdongding Dingaling a-ling a-dingdongding Ooh arr, ooh arr, ooh arr, ooh arr, ooh arr, ooh arr Dingaling a-ling a-dingdongding Dingaling a-ling a-dingdongding Dingaling a-ling a-dingdongding Dingaling a-ling a-dingdongding (Repeat verse one) Giddy up, giddy up, giddy up let's go! Let's go! Let's look at the show (let's look at the show) We're riding in a wonderland of snow, yo ho ho Giddy up, giddy up, giddy up it's grand Just holding your hand We're gliding along with the song of a wintry fairyland (Repeat verse two) With you Dingaling a-ling a-dingdongding I just love being with you ha ha Dingaling a-ling a-dingdongding Sleigh ride with you Dingaling a-ling a-dingdongding Ding, a-ling, along! With you! Track 5 Let It Snow Oh the weather outside is frightful But the fire is so delightful And since we've no place to go Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow It doesn't show signs of stopping And I've bought some corn for popping The lights are turned way down low Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow When we finally kiss goodnight How I'll hate going out in the storm But if you really hold me tight All the way home I'll be warm Oh the fire is slowly dying And my dear we're still goodbye-ing But as long as you love me so Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow Ooh arr ooh, ooh arr ooh, ooh arr ooh, ooh arr ooh Ooh arr ooh, ooh arr ooh, ooh arr ooh, ooh arr ooh When we finally kiss goodnight How I'll hate going out in the storm But if you really hold me tight All the way home I'll be warm, oh The fire is slowly dying And my dear we're still goodbye-ing But as long as you love me so Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow, let it snow Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow, let it snow Wooh let it snow Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow, let it snow Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow, let it snow (Repeat ooh arr ooh section in background) Oh, the weather outside is frightful And that fire, oh, it's so delightful And since we've no place to go Let it snow, let it snow Oh it doesn't show signs of stopping And I've bought some corn for popping The lights are turned way down low Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow (Repeat let it snow, let it snow, let it snow in background) Let it snow Let it snow Let it snow Track 6 Fairytale Of New York It was Christmas Eve babe, in the drunk tank An old man said to me, won't see another one And then he sang a song, the Rare Old Mountain Dew I turned my face away, and dreamed about you Got on a lucky one, came in eighteen to one I've got a feeling, this year's for me and you So Happy Christmas, I love you baby I can see a better time, when all our dreams come true They got cars big as bars, they got rivers of gold But the wind goes right through you, no place for the old When I first took your hand on a cold Christmas Eve You promised me Broadway was waiting for me You were handsome You were pretty, Queen of New York City When the band finished playing they howled out for more Sinatra was swinging, all the drunks they were singing We kissed on a corner then danced through the night (Chorus) And the boys of the NYPD choir are singing Galway Bay And the bells are ringing out for Christmas Day You're a bum, you're a punk You're an old slut on junk Lying there almost dead on a drip in that bed You scumbag, you maggot, you cheap lousy faggot Happy Christmas your arse, I pray God it's our last (Repeat chorus) I could have been someone Well so could anyone You took my dreams from me, when I first found you I kept them with me babe, I put them with my own Can't make it all alone, I've built my dreams around you (Repeat chorus) Ooh arr, ooh arr, ooh arr ooh arr, ooh ooh arr Ooh arr, ooh arr, ooh arr ooh arr ooh, arr The boys of the NYPD choir are singing Galway Bay And the bells were ringing out for Christmas Day
Track 7 I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day Are you ready children?Yeah! When the snowman brings the snow Well he just might like to know He's put a great big smile on somebody's face If you jump into your bed, quickly cover up your head Don't you lock the doors, you know that sweet Santa Claus is on the way (Chorus) Well I wish it could be Christmas every day When the kids start singing and the band begins to play Oh I wish it could be Christmas every day Let the bells ring out for Christmas When you're skating in the park If the snow cloud makes it dark Then your rosy cheeks gonna light my merry way Now the frosticles appear, and they've frozen up my ears So we'll lie by the fire till the sleep simply knocks them all away (Repeat chorus) La la la la la! La la la la la! La la la la la la la La la la la la la la la la When the snowman brings the snow (snowman brings the snow) Well he just might like to know (just might like to know) He's put a great big smile on somebody's face So when Santa brings that sleigh (Santa brings the sleigh) All along the Milky Way (along the Milky Way) I'll sign my name on the rooftop in the snow and he may decide to stay (Repeat chorus) Well I wish it could be Christmas every day When the kids start singing and the band begins to play Well I wish it could be Christmas every day Let the bells ring out for Christmas Why don't you give, your love, for Christmas Ooh arr Track 8 Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree Rockin' around the Christmas tree At the Christmas party hop Mistletoe hung where you can see Every couple tries to stop Rockin' around the Christmas tree Let the Christmas spirit ring Later we'll have some pumpkin pie And we'll do some carolling You will get a sentimental feeling, when you hear Voices singing let's be jolly, deck the halls with boughs of holly Rockin' around the Christmas tree Have a happy holiday Everyone dancing merrily In the new old fashioned way Doobie doo wop, doobie doo wop, doobie doo wop, doobie doo wop Doobie doo wop, doobie doo wop, doobie doo wop, doobie doo wop Doobie doo wop, doobie doo wop, doobie doo wop, doobie doo wop Doobie doo wop, doobie doo wop, a doobie doobie doobie doobie Doobie doo wop wop You will get a sentimental feeling, when you hear Voices singing let's be jolly, deck the halls with boughs of holly Rockin' around the Christmas tree Have a happy holiday Everyone dancing merrily In the new old fashioned way (Repeat doobie doo wop section) You will get a sentimental feeling, when you hear Voices singing let's be jolly, deck the halls with boughs of holly Deck the halls with boughs of holly (Deck the halls with boughs of holly) (Repeat doobie doo wop section in background) Rockin' around the Christmas tree Have a happy holiday Everyone dancing merrily In the new old fashioned way Track 9 Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen Comet and Cupid and Donner and Blitzen But do you recall the most famous reindeer of all Rudolph the red nosed reindeer Had a very shiny nose And if you ever saw it You would even say it glows All of the other reindeer Used to laugh and call him names They never let poor Rudolph Play in any reindeer games And then one foggy Christmas Eve Old Santa came to say Rudolph with your nose so bright Won't you guide my sleigh tonight Then all the reindeer loved him And they shouted out with glee Rudolph the red nosed reindeer You'll go down in history Rudolph the red nosed reindeer (reindeer) Had a very shiny nose (like a lightbulb) And if you ever saw it (saw it) You would even say it glows (like a flashlight) All of the other reindeer (reindeer) Used to laugh and call him names (like Pinochio) They never let poor Rudolph (Rudolph) Play in any reindeer games (like Monopoly) And then one foggy Christmas Eve Old Santa came to say Rudolph with your nose so bright Won't you guide my sleigh tonight Then all the reindeer loved him (loved him) And they shouted out with glee (yippee!) Rudolph the red nosed reindeer (reindeer) You'll go down in history (Repeat once) I just wanna be your reindeer tonight Ho ho ho Track 10 When A Child Is Born A ray of hope, flickers in the sky A tiny star, lights up way up high All across the land, dawns a brand new morn This comes to pass, when a child is born A silent wish, sails the seven seas A wind of change, whisper in the trees And the walls of doubt, crumbled tossed and torn This comes to pass, when a child is born A rosy hue, settles all around You've got the feel, you're on solid ground For a spell or two, no one seems forlorn This comes to pass, when a child is born And all this happens because the world is waiting Waiting for one child Black, white, yellow, no one knows! But a child that will grow up and turn tears to laughter Hate to love, war to peace, and everyone to everyone's neighbour Misery and suffering will be the words to be forgotten, forever It's all a dream, an illusion now It must come true, sometime soon somehow All across the land, dawns a brand new morn This comes to pass, when a child is born Ooh arr ooh Ooh arr ooh Ooh arr ooh Hm hm hm hm, hm hm hm hm hm Hm hm hm hm, hm hm hm hm hm All across the land, dawns a brand new morn This comes to pass, when a child is born When a child is born Hm, mm, mmmm Track 11 Winter Wonderland Sleigh bells ring, are you listening? In the lane, snow is glistening A beautiful sight, we're happy tonight Walking in a winter wonderland Gone away, is the bluebird In his place, is a new bird He sings a love song, as we go along Walking in a winter wonderland In the meadow we can build a snowman And pretend that he is Parson Brown He'll say are you married we'll say no man But you can do the job when you're in town Later on, we'll conspire As we dream, by the fire To face unafraid, the plans that we made Walking in a winter wonderland Doobie doobie doobie doobie doo boo boo Boodoobeddy boo boo doobie doobie boo boo Boo boo boo boo dabba dooba dooba dooba dooba do do do do do Ba dooba de boo ba boo, boo ba dooba dooba dooba do do do do do Do do do boo Do, do, do, boo ba dooba dooba do do dooba boo boo In the meadow we can build a snowman And pretend that he is Parson Brown He'll say are you married we'll say no man But you can have the job when youm in town Later on, we'll conspire As we dream by the fire To face unafraid, the plans that we made Walking in a winter wonderland Sleigh bells ring, are you listening? In the lane, snow is glistening A beautiful sight, we're happy tonight Walking in a winter wonderland Gone away, is the bluebird Here to stay, is the new bird He sings a love song, as we go along Walking in a winter wonderland Later on, we'll conspire As we dream by the fire To face unafraid, the plans that we made Walking in a winter wonderland Walking in a winter wonderland Walking in a winter wonderland Track 12 Happy Xmas (War Is Over) So this is Christmas, and what have you done Another year over, and a new one just begun And so this is Christmas, I hope you have fun The near and the dear ones, the old and the young A merry merry Christmas, and a happy new year Let's hope it's a good one, without any fear So this is Christmas (war is over) For weak and for strong (if you want it) For rich and the poor ones (war is over) The world is so wrong (na, ah, ah, ah) And so happy Christmas (war is over) For black and for white (if you want it) For yellow and red ones (war is over) Let's stop all the fight (na, ah, ah, ah) A merry merry Christmas, and a happy new year Let's hope it's a good one, without any fear So this is Christmas (war is over) (so this is Christmas) And what have we done (if you want it) (and what have we done) T'is another year over now (war is over) (another year over) And a new one's just begun (na, ah, ah, ah) (a new one just begun) And so this is Christmas (war is over) I hope you have fun (if you want it) The near and the dear ones (war is over) The old and the young (na, ah, ah, ah) A merry merry Christmas (a very merry Christmas) And a happy new year (and a happy new year to everybody) Let's hope it's a good one (let's all hope it's a good 'un) Without any fear (without any fear) War is over, if you want it, war is over, na, ah, ah, ah War is over, if you want it, war is over, na, ah, ah, ah Lyrics Kindly transcribed by E.Bryant, Verified by Professor Wurzel