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It's funny how some songs come together. This one started when dwwave, who I'd worked with on a couple of tracks, noticed that I liked Christmas songs & suggested that we work on one together.
Given the nature of our previous tracks, this was unlikely to be a traditional Christmas song – no Bing Crosby, Phil Spector, etc. for us. The lyrics were kind of cynical & kind of tongue-in-cheek, but also reflect my genuine love of Christmas. One of the lyrical ideas dates back over ten years but the rest I wrote this year (most of them were, surprisngly, written while I was at a prog rock festival in the UK - go figure!).
Dwwave used Garageband to provide an amazing soundbed for the lyrics, which I described as kind of like a Hawaiian Elvis Christmas. He did quite a lot of editing and came up with a sound that we both really liked. Hope you all do too! Merry Christmas everybody!
Epileptic Gibbon is based in the UK and provided all the lyrics and the spoken- word vocals.
dwwave is based in Akron, Ohio, USA and provided all the musical stuff.
Credit for the artwork goes to Mike & Kim Crinella at www.alohafriends.com
Given the nature of our previous tracks, this was unlikely to be a traditional Christmas song – no Bing Crosby, Phil Spector, etc. for us. The lyrics were kind of cynical & kind of tongue-in-cheek, but also reflect my genuine love of Christmas. One of the lyrical ideas dates back over ten years but the rest I wrote this year (most of them were, surprisngly, written while I was at a prog rock festival in the UK - go figure!).
Dwwave used Garageband to provide an amazing soundbed for the lyrics, which I described as kind of like a Hawaiian Elvis Christmas. He did quite a lot of editing and came up with a sound that we both really liked. Hope you all do too! Merry Christmas everybody!
Epileptic Gibbon is based in the UK and provided all the lyrics and the spoken- word vocals.
dwwave is based in Akron, Ohio, USA and provided all the musical stuff.
Credit for the artwork goes to Mike & Kim Crinella at www.alohafriends.com
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Lyrics
It's not Christmas in Iraq
Nor in New Orleans
It's not Christmas in the gutter
But it's Christmas in my dreams
Christmas is coming
The goose is very dead
Please put a penny in the old man's head
If you haven't got a penny
Then a credit card will do
If you haven't got a credit card
Then God bless you
Give up your presents
Give up your sins
It's a lose-lose situation
But everybody wins
Christmas is coming
The goose is very dead
Please put a penny in the old man's head
If you haven't got a penny
Then a credit card will do
If you haven't got a credit card
Then God bless you
Would you believe
On one Christmas Eve
Dear old Santa he got sick?
He gave a cough
His leg fell off
Do you think that I'm taking the mick?
Christmas is coming
The goose is very dead
Please put a penny in the old man's head
If you haven't got a penny
Then a credit card will do
If you haven't got a credit card
Then God bless you
A Christmas complainer?
Mistletoe and whine?
Just give me a kiss
And I'll be festively fine
Christmas is coming
The goose is very dead
Please put a penny in the old man's head
If you haven't got a penny
Then a credit card will do
If you haven't got a credit card
Then God bless you
It's Christmas in my dreams
It's Christmas in my dreams
I'll be home for Christmas
But only in my screams
Nor in New Orleans
It's not Christmas in the gutter
But it's Christmas in my dreams
Christmas is coming
The goose is very dead
Please put a penny in the old man's head
If you haven't got a penny
Then a credit card will do
If you haven't got a credit card
Then God bless you
Give up your presents
Give up your sins
It's a lose-lose situation
But everybody wins
Christmas is coming
The goose is very dead
Please put a penny in the old man's head
If you haven't got a penny
Then a credit card will do
If you haven't got a credit card
Then God bless you
Would you believe
On one Christmas Eve
Dear old Santa he got sick?
He gave a cough
His leg fell off
Do you think that I'm taking the mick?
Christmas is coming
The goose is very dead
Please put a penny in the old man's head
If you haven't got a penny
Then a credit card will do
If you haven't got a credit card
Then God bless you
A Christmas complainer?
Mistletoe and whine?
Just give me a kiss
And I'll be festively fine
Christmas is coming
The goose is very dead
Please put a penny in the old man's head
If you haven't got a penny
Then a credit card will do
If you haven't got a credit card
Then God bless you
It's Christmas in my dreams
It's Christmas in my dreams
I'll be home for Christmas
But only in my screams
selters
Very nice nice background sounds going in here! Love the jangly guitar there. I look at the lyrics as very funny, i hope that was the intention.. If not, well..but you have a very nice voice listening to! keep up the good work!