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December 17, 2007
Yet another Aussie Xmas
So, for the third year in a row, I will be celebrating not a white Christmas, but a white hot one instead. Christmas in Australia shares some similarities with the North American variety. Both for instance, usually involve gifts or 'prezzies' as some Aussies call them (you'll recall that this continent loves to shorten [sometimes not evening shortening the word at all] words and just add a y or ie to the end). Most of the time around the holidays is spent with family...usually involving alcohol to keep the spirits merry and the inevitable blue (see 'fight'), when spirits become too merry.
What I do find strange is that some of the same carols are used. I'm dreaming of a white xmas is forever a dream down here... unless it's xmas in July...and you're down in Adelaide or Melbourne or somewhere much closer to Antarctica then Alice Springs. There are some xmas carols that have been modified to something closer to what most Aussies will experience:
Dashing through the bush
In a rusty Holden Ute
Kicking up the dust
Esky in the boot
Kelpie by my side
Singing Christmas songs
It's summer time and I am in
My singlet, shorts & thongs
CHORUS:
OH, JINGLE BELLS, JINGLE BELLS
JINGLE ALL THE WAY
CHRISTMAS IN AUSTRALIA
ON A SCORCHING SUMMER'S DAY
JINGLE BELLS, JINGLE BELLS
CHRISTMAS TIME IS BEAUT
OH WHAT FUN IT IS TO RIDE
IN A RUSTY HOLDEN UTE
Engine's getting hot
Dodge the kangaroos
Swaggy climbs aboard
He is welcome too
All the family is there
Sitting by the pool
Christmas day, the Aussie way
By the barbecue!
CHORUS
Come the afternoon
Grandpa has a doze
The kids and uncle Bruce
Are swimming in their clothes
The time comes round to go
We take a family snap
Then pack the car and all shoot through
Before the washing up
CHORUS
courtesy of Jaybee's Entertainment!
Given that the differences in climate or so drastic, it being a whole other season and all down here, I reckon the old man Claus should be upgraded a little....after all, he's bound to get heat stroke dressed as such:
Something much more suited to the hot Aussie climate would be more inclined to keep the season merry.
Posted by Dr.Unk at December 17, 2007 3:50 AM
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