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*"[[http://thefump.com/fump.php?id=1365 "Snowman"]] by TV's Kyle, which is about how despite being associated with jollity, a snowman actually has a short, futile existence:
-->I am a snowman and I wish that you never made me
-->I'm filthy and ugly and I'm wearing all your old clothes.
-->I'm only around for a day or two, that's if I'm lucky
-->Some pants or a jacket are out of my league, I suppose.
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* ''Oi To The World!'' by obscure punk band The Vandals is a full 12 track album of these (with a fairly straight Christmas style overture added on later releases).

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* ''Oi To The World!'' by obscure punk band The Vandals is a full 12 track album of these (with a fairly straight Christmas style overture added on later releases). The title song, on the other hand (later covered by NoDoubt) is about a punk and a skinhead who manage to put aside their differences (read: "violent feud") 'cause it's Christmas.
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* [[http://www.bobrivers.com/#v0c7 Bob Rivers and his comedy group]] are arguably the masters of this with their series of at least five ''Twisted Christmas'' albums from the 1980s on, including such memorable titles as [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uT9NnD0xKn8 "The Twelve Pains of Christmas"]], "Wreck the Malls", "There's Something Stuck Up In The Chimney", "Hey! You! Get Off of My House", and "Chipmunks Roasting On An Open Fire".

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* [[http://www.bobrivers.com/#v0c7 Bob Rivers and his comedy group]] are arguably the masters of this with their series of at least five ''Twisted Christmas'' albums from the 1980s on, including such memorable titles as [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uT9NnD0xKn8 "The Twelve Pains of Christmas"]], "Wreck the Malls", "There's Something Stuck Up In The Chimney", "The Chimney Song", "Hey! You! Get Off of My House", and "Chipmunks Roasting On An Open Fire".
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* FamilyGuy episode "Road to the North Pole" had an anti Christmas song called "Christmas Time is Killing Us". Be warned, it's pure HighOctaneNightmareFuel.

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* FamilyGuy episode "Road to the North Pole" had an anti Christmas song called "Christmas Time is Killing Us". Be warned, it's pure it has a lot of HighOctaneNightmareFuel.
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* FamilyGuy episode "Road to the North Pole" had an anti Christmas song called "Christmas Time is Killing Us". Be warned, it's pure HighOctaneNightmareFuel.
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She's standing by the train station, panhandling for change

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She's "She's standing by the train station, panhandling for change



And at least it means no beating from her Dad

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And at least it means no beating from her Dad Dad"
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**Here's an example:
She's standing by the train station, panhandling for change
Four more dollars buys a decent meal and a room.
Looks like the Sally Ann place after all,
In a crowded sleeping hall that echoes like a tomb
But it's warm and clean and free and there are worse places to be,
And at least it means no beating from her Dad
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* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suqWNk1vi0o Jeff Foxworthy's 12 days of Christmas]].

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* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suqWNk1vi0o com/watch?v=VJOe3CXE-mA Jeff Foxworthy's 12 days of Christmas]].
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* "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGdrMOttV_s Christmas at Ground Zero]]" -- a WeirdAlYankovic song about a nuclear apocalypse set to the tone of a Christmas carol.

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* "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGdrMOttV_s com/watch?v=t039p6xqutU Christmas at Ground Zero]]" -- a WeirdAlYankovic song about a nuclear apocalypse set to the tone of a Christmas carol.
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* "A Good Man Is Hard To Find (Pittsburgh)" by BruceSpringsteen describes a young woman sitting by a lighted Christmas tree thinking about her husband, who was killed in Vietnam, and their little girl, who "she's gonna have to tell about the meanness in this world."
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* TheNostalgiaCritic's song: [[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/specials/13799-cf "Holiday Clusterfuck."]]
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* TheNostalgiaCritic's song: [[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/specials/13799-cf "Holiday Clusterfuck."]]

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* "Here Comes Fatty Claus," featured on the JohnWaters Christmas album, makes its status as an Anti-Christmas song blatant from the first line ("Here comes Fatty with a sack o'shit") but later in the song, describes itself specifically as a song for everyone who dreads Christmas because of "ruptured bank accounts" from buying tons of gifts.

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* [[JohnWaters John Waters's]] Christmas album has a bunch of these. Some, like "Here Comes Fatty Claus," featured on the JohnWaters Christmas album, makes its status as an Anti-Christmas song blatant from the first line ("Here comes Fatty with a sack o'shit") but later in the song, describes are intended that way (it bills itself specifically as a song for everyone people who dreads Christmas because of suffer during the holidays due to "ruptured bank accounts" from buying tons of gifts.
accounts"), others weren't originally meant to be Anti-Christmas Songs but serve the role for Waters's usual audience (like the overly-earnest religious song "Happy Birthday Jesus").

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* "Here Comes Fatty Claus," featured on the JohnWaters Christmas album, makes its status as an Anti-Christmas song blatant from the first line ("Here comes Fatty with a sack o'shit") but later in the song, describes itself specifically as a song for everyone who dreads Christmas because of "ruptured bank accounts" from buying tons of gifts.
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TheGrinch tends to love these.

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Real-life versions of TheGrinch tends tend to love these.
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* "Suddenly It's Christmas", by Loudon Wainwright III, is a well-aimed TakeThat to the modern retail-led push to rush into the Christmas season immediately after Halloween.
-->There's got to be a build-up\\
To the day that Christ was born\\
The halls are decked with pumpkins\\
And the ears of Indian corn\\
Dragging through the falling leaves\\
In a one-horse open sleigh\\
Suddenly it's Christmas\\
Seven weeks before the day
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* In the animated ChristmasSpecial OliveTheOtherReindeer, the Postman has a little number called "Bah, Bug and Hum!" The song is all about how he hates carrying all of those gifts, catalogs and cards when it's already really cold.
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* There's P.D.Q. Bach's "Throw the Yule Log On Uncle John", which is more satirical than anything, and involves an infamously drunk relative who always manages to ruin Christmas dinner.
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* And the Christmas poem by ''Loriot'', which tells us the grisly tale of a forest warden being murdered by his wife on Christmas eve.

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* And the Christmas poem by ''Loriot'', ''{{Loriot}}'', which tells us the grisly tale of a forest warden being murdered by his wife on Christmas eve.
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* KingdomOfLoathing has [[YouMeanXMas Crimbo]] Carols, which are lyrics sheets meant to be sung to the tune of Christmas Songs, like Frosty the Hitman and Violent Night. Since December is a month-long event involving beating up elves, they are decidedly tounge-in-cheek.

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* KingdomOfLoathing has [[YouMeanXMas Crimbo]] Carols, which are lyrics sheets meant to be sung to the tune of Christmas Songs, like Frosty the Hitman and Violent Night. Since December is a month-long event involving beating up elves, they are decidedly tounge-in-cheek.tongue-in-cheek.
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->''I say, if a novelty Christmas song is funny the first time, it's funny '''every''' time.''
->-- '''Calvin''', ''CalvinAndHobbes''

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*French exemples by LeDonjonDeNaheulbeuk 's creator, John Lang.[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-EH6W_d28c Noel en Mordor]] (Christmas in Mordor)is set in LordOfTheRings universe, and end with: "Santa Claus captured by trolls, and dark era begin."
**[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cXnszjh7Pc "Le retour de Gzor"]] (Gzor's return) is about a bad god named Gzor, a Cuthlu's Expy. "Gzor will come back, Gzor will be your master..." on [[SoundtrackDissonance "Oh Holy Night" tune.]]

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* "What is Christmas" by ''TransSiberianOrchestra'' in their album "The Lost Christmas Eve", is a VillainSong from the point of view of the album's Scrooge-like antagonist.



* "What is Christmas" by ''TransSiberianOrchestra'' in their album "The Lost Christmas Eve", is a VillainSong from the point of view of the album's Scrooge-like antagonist.

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* "What is Christmas" by ''TransSiberianOrchestra'' in their album "The Lost Christmas Eve", is a VillainSong from the point of view of the album's Scrooge-like antagonist.
* "What's This?" from ''TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'' is a subversion; the singer, Jack Skellington, falls in love with Christmas when he first discovers the holiday, but [[CompletelyMissingThePoint misses the point]], largely because he sees Christmas through his own unique prism:
-->"There's children throwing snowballs [[NightmareFuel instead of throwing heads]],\\
They're busy making toys and absolutely no one's dead!"
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* German singer-songwriter Reinhard Mey has one of these: "Abscheuliches Lied fabscheuliche Leute" (abhorrent song for abhorrent people), released in 1968, deals specifically with the fact that a large part of Christmas sales is made with toy military equipment, ending in these beautiful lines:

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* German singer-songwriter Reinhard Mey has one of these: "Abscheuliches Lied fabscheuliche für abscheuliche Leute" (abhorrent song for abhorrent people), released in 1968, deals specifically with the fact that a large part of Christmas sales is made with toy military equipment, ending in these beautiful lines:
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** That song subverts it. I'ts not for or against christmas, The guy is completely INDIFFERENT to it.

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** That song subverts it. I'ts It's not for or against christmas, The guy is completely INDIFFERENT to it.
it, which is the point of the song in the first place. It's better explained right before the song, that even though he's a villain and he knows he should hate Christmas, he says, "Christmas was always fun in my family! I mean, it wasn't good, but it wasn't bad!"
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** Hmmm, it kind of subverts this back to hopeful at the end, though -- the last lyric begins,
--> I wish you a hopeful Christmas
--> I wish you a brave New Year
--> All anguish pain and sadness
--> Leave your heart and let your road be clear
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**Not surprisingly, Judy Garland absolutely refused to perform the song until the lyrics were changed to something that wouldn't make her seem like a total monster. Even in revised form, the song still contained the suicide inducing line, "Until then we'll have to muddle through somehow." Frank Sinatra later revised the lyrics to the more familiar, "Hang a shining star upon the highest bough." [[BobDylan Bob Dylan's]] cover, on an album of Christmas covers which was otherwise played straight, ''retained'' that particular lyric.

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**Not *Not surprisingly, Judy Garland absolutely refused to perform the song until the lyrics were changed to something that wouldn't make her seem like a total monster. Even in revised form, the song still contained the suicide inducing line, "Until then we'll have to muddle through somehow." Frank Sinatra later revised the lyrics to the more familiar, "Hang a shining star upon the highest bough." [[BobDylan Bob Dylan's]] cover, on an album of Christmas covers which was otherwise played straight, ''retained'' that particular lyric.
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*Not surprisingly, Judy Garland absolutely refused to perform the song until the lyrics were changed to something that wouldn't make her seem like a total monster. Even in revised form, the song still contained the suicide inducing line, "Until then we'll have to muddle through somehow." Frank Sinatra later revised the lyrics to the more familiar, "Hang a shining star upon the highest bough." [[BobDylan Bob Dylan's]] cover, on an album of Christmas covers which was otherwise played straight, ''retained'' that particular lyric.

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*Not **Not surprisingly, Judy Garland absolutely refused to perform the song until the lyrics were changed to something that wouldn't make her seem like a total monster. Even in revised form, the song still contained the suicide inducing line, "Until then we'll have to muddle through somehow." Frank Sinatra later revised the lyrics to the more familiar, "Hang a shining star upon the highest bough." [[BobDylan Bob Dylan's]] cover, on an album of Christmas covers which was otherwise played straight, ''retained'' that particular lyric.

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