https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/year-7-week-8-my-christmas-wish/ Guitar Noise Discussion Board en-US Fri, 05 Jun 2026 11:22:30 +0000 wpForo 60 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/year-7-week-8-my-christmas-wish/#post-317177 Fri, 26 Dec 2008 16:50:43 +0000 been there done that :D
... i used to start thinking about which presents to make for whom in september :lol:
The tree may be green but the smell is synthetic
The kitchen is bulging with far too much food
Eating like pigs till we're all paralytic
Who even likes cranberries, turkey or pud? brilliantly written :lol:

amen to the last verse, too ... i think i still am an eight-year-old most of the time anyway and generally love christmas and winter time :D

thanks for sharing!
cheers,
straycat.]]> Sunday Songwriters Group straycat. https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/year-7-week-8-my-christmas-wish/#post-317177 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/year-7-week-8-my-christmas-wish/#post-317017 Wed, 24 Dec 2008 06:10:51 +0000
I like it....

:D :D :D

Vic]]> Sunday Songwriters Group Vic Lewis VL https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/year-7-week-8-my-christmas-wish/#post-317017 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/year-7-week-8-my-christmas-wish/#post-316908 Tue, 23 Dec 2008 13:54:13 +0000
Cheers,

Chris]]> Sunday Songwriters Group Chris C https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/year-7-week-8-my-christmas-wish/#post-316908 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/year-7-week-8-my-christmas-wish/#post-316840 Mon, 22 Dec 2008 13:50:52 +0000

A :-)]]> Sunday Songwriters Group Alan Green https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/year-7-week-8-my-christmas-wish/#post-316840 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/year-7-week-8-my-christmas-wish/#post-316813 Mon, 22 Dec 2008 03:46:06 +0000
Along with the others, I think you did an excellent job, not only with the theme but with the flow of narration and where it takes the listener / reader. Very cool.

My only suggestion is maybe coming up with something a little more specific than "chores" in this otherwise great stanza:
Why'd I have to leave it so late again?
Christmastime started back in September
My head's overloaded with carols and songs
I've got cards to write and chores to remember "Chores" just seems, to me anyway, like a strange word in this context. I'll try to come up with something, but right now my brain is going "...and a turkey to dismember..." and that's a little too over the top, I think.

Looking forward to the music. Hope Santa comes through with some recording equipment!

Peace]]> Sunday Songwriters Group David Hodge https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/year-7-week-8-my-christmas-wish/#post-316813 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/year-7-week-8-my-christmas-wish/#post-316787 Sun, 21 Dec 2008 18:15:10 +0000
Great job! You really seemed to capture the emotions of the moment in each part and added something new each verse...The lyrics look pretty tight to me :D

-James]]> Sunday Songwriters Group jamestoffee https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/year-7-week-8-my-christmas-wish/#post-316787 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/year-7-week-8-my-christmas-wish/#post-316784 Sun, 21 Dec 2008 16:51:55 +0000 www.soundclick.com where you can painlessly post. For me, it helps to hear what people have in mind cause I can't really play the chords till I've heard something, even if it is a bad recording (I'm sure even a dying cat would sound great in Sony's studio).

I like your theme - reaching back into that childhood nostalgia and remembering what we once loved... sometimes it is just reminding ourselves of that that can get us into the right mood. I liked your conclusion - hard not to smile when surrounded by the ones you love and good food.

The rhyme scheme seemed to work too, I just had one flag come up in my head about "food" and "pud" - is pud actually used (I'm american, so I miss some lingo). Otherwise, it feels as if you're trying to force a rhyme there, and I don't think it works... maybe I'd have to hear it but I think most audiences would miss it. Maybe find something else that rhymes with pudding instead to end the food line or vice versa.

Have a good holiday.

contagiousjerm]]> Sunday Songwriters Group contagiousjerm https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/year-7-week-8-my-christmas-wish/#post-316784 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/year-7-week-8-my-christmas-wish/#post-316783 Sun, 21 Dec 2008 15:03:52 +0000
Verses: D A Bm G D A G F#m G A D A Bm G D A G F#m Em D That's a sequence of 4 single downstrokes at the end of lines 2 and 4. Cheesy, no? 8)

Pre-chorus F#m G F#m G A Chorus: as verse, replace Bm with D

Middle 8: unknown, something more minor-sounding

Oh and for some reason I just noticed I have a capo on 5. Random!]]> Sunday Songwriters Group martin-6 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/year-7-week-8-my-christmas-wish/#post-316783 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/year-7-week-8-my-christmas-wish/#post-34429 Sun, 21 Dec 2008 14:44:22 +0000
All suggestions welcome, I have wiggle room with most of the lyrics.

If Santa brings me a recording studio I'll let you in on the music - to give you some idea, it's in the style of Slade's "Merry Xmas Everybody".


My Christmas Wish
================

It's last minute panic all over the world
I'm still empty-handed and it's my last shot
I know I won't find my own presence of mind
Til the last bloody shelf of the last bloody shop

Why'd I have to leave it so late again?
Christmastime started back in September
My head's overloaded with carols and songs
I've got cards to write and chores to remember

Everyone else is in holiday mood
So why do I feel like I'm Scrooge?


My Christmas wish is only this:
One more taste of childhood joy
What wouldn't I give just to relive
One more magical Christmas as an eight-year-old boy


The tree may be green but the smell is synthetic
The kitchen is bulging with far too much food
Eating like pigs till we're all paralytic
Who even likes cranberries, turkey or pud?

Everyone's hugging and telling old tales
While the TV's blaring away
Aunts getting tipsy as uncles nod off
Let's play out the agony of Christmas Day

Haven't we grown too old for this?
Isn't it all just for kids?




Evening cedes to frosty night
Snowfall blankets the town
Treetops shine, it's a guiding light
Let's get inside and sit ourselves down
Noses are red but the fire starts to glow
Suddenly everyone's here
Just for a moment, I close my eyes
My wish came true, and I'm smiling inside!


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