A Song-Poem Christmas

Love, Christmas, political views...whatever it is, nothing sums it up like a song poem. But in this case, it's Christmas, and I have two songs written by just-plain average folk who saw an ad in the back of a magazine and decided it'd be cool to hear their sentiments in song.

There's a lot of mystique behind song poems. There's a website with loads of information and history, and like just about everything else these days, there was even a documentary about them. This otherwise unassuming "1977 Christmas Album" is chock full of holiday song poems, all sung by The Sisterhood, a female trio who, if you believe the note on the back cover, seemed to appear on just about every TV and variety show in existence.

The first song is not so much about the holidays as winter itself.


The second starts off "holiday" enough, but after the first couple of lines...wait, is this actually a song about Elvis Presley?

Boy, someone had a Blue Christmas that year.

LINKS FOR FURTHER LEARNING
The American Song-Poem Music Archive
Off The Charts: The Song Poem Story