What I like best about Stay Another Day is that it isn't really a Christmas song, but in order to secure that all important Christmas no 1 slot, they covered it in bells and wore big parkas in the snow in the video

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 6 Nov 2014, 11:08, 1 reply, 11 years ago)

Same with 'Stop the cavalry'
It has the 'wish I was at home for xmas' line, but nothing else to suggest that it's a xmas song. Just some bell bollocks.
( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Thu 6 Nov 2014, 11:12, Reply)

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(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Thu 6 Nov 2014, 11:17, Reply)

good point

( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Thu 6 Nov 2014, 11:18, Reply)

exactly! ex-fucking-zactly

(old man river possible lesbian, Thu 6 Nov 2014, 11:19, Reply)

See also Pipes of Peace, which although the video depicts the 1914 Christmas truce, has no mention of Christmas in the lyrics.
In fact, the Jona Lewie one also has a World War One themed video.
Maybe there is something in that.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 6 Nov 2014, 11:33, Reply)

1914 was officially the last recorded incident of Germans having fun at Christmas.

(old man river possible lesbian, Thu 6 Nov 2014, 11:36, Reply)

They put out shoes instead of stockings, if you can warrant it.
The disappointment of the young German child to wake up on Christmas Day only to find that instead of a shoe full of presents a fucking lion's got in and eaten them must be a terrible thing to witness.
( Kroney, Thu 6 Nov 2014, 11:52, Reply)