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Wonderful Christmas Time

from Season's Greetings from Lowbrow by Lowbrow

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Originally written by Paul McCartney in 1979 (Please don't sue us Sir Paul)

When hunting for a third song to do this year, a friend of the band (and gang vocal extraordinaire) Dave suggested Last Christmas by Wham! It got a lot of support, but the entire song is the same chord progression, and I couldn't make it work (but it did sneak into the Medley).

Someone else suggested the song from the Grinch, but we ran into the same problem.

I was scouring YouTube for ideas, when I stumbled on Wonderful Christmas Time by Paul McCartney. Daniel is a huge Beatles fan, and I got excited to check it out. When I opened up the video, I was greeted by a barrage of awful 70s synth, a nonsensical song structure, and an absolutely clustered mess of sound.

The more I listened to it, the more I realized there was a good backbone of a song, just dressed up in regrettable decisions (it was 1979). I originally began arranging it as an acoustic cover, but it started to drag on, much like the original did. I scrapped the acoustic, added some drums, cut out even more of the filler (For example, Paul sings "Wonderful Christmas Time" 14 times in the original!), and threw some shreddy guitars on there, and called it a day.

I think Paul would be proud, right up until he sues us (Joke's on you Sir McCartney, there's no money for you to take)

lyrics

The moon is right
The spirit's up
We're here tonight
And that's Enough

Simply having a wonderful Christmas Time

The party's on
That feeling's here
That only comes
This time of year

Simply having a wonderful Christmas Time
Simply having a wonderful Christmas Time

The choir of children sing their song
That they've practiced all year long
Ding Dong Ding Dong
Ding Dong Ding Dong

The word is out
The spirit's up
We're here tonight
And that's enough

Simply having a wonderful Christmas Time

The party's on
Around the town
So raise your glass
And drink it down

Simply having a wonderful Christmas Time
Simply having a wonderful Christmas Time
Simply having a wonderful Christmas Time

A Christmas Time
A Christmas Time
A Christmas Time

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from Season's Greetings from Lowbrow, released December 3, 2013

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