Christmas Songs

Well, here's a list of 110 235 songs which are all explicitly released under a Creative Commons license (no, I did not consider songs which are merely "podsafe"!) and thus can be shared, listened to, and sometimes even modified freely. There's a great variety in style, mood, and genre of the songs: some traditional, some contemporary, some happy, some sad, and some just plain funny. So here's the list:

Single MP3s:

• Natalie Brown - Jingle Bells
• Danny Morris - Santa's Gone Surfing!
• Bullette - Christmas Blank
• Bullette - The Finest Gifts
• Jonathan Coulton - Podsafe Christmas Song
• Jonathan Coulton - Christmas Is Interesting
• Pete Green - Everything's Dead Pretty When it Snows
• Robert Gayler - Christmas Bells
• Sonny Jim - Christmas
• Shira Kammen - Christmas Day in the Morning
• Derek K. Miller - We Three Kings
• High-C & DJ Manticore - How George Stole Christmas
• Sarah Whiteley - Still, Still, Still
• Sean McGaughey - Homeless Babe
• Skoria - Christmas Impro

Compilations:

• Kemper Crabb - A Medieval Christmas (11 songs)
• Diorisiy - Christmas Carols (19 songs)
• The 8bitpeoples - The 8bits of Christmas (8 songs)
• Austin Rudy Christmas - Carolina Christmas (5 songs)
• Goyette Christmas Carolers - Various Christmas Songs (10 songs)
• Kevin MacLeod - Holiday / Christmas Collection (8 songs)
• Oilville Christmas Dynasty - Christmas Compilations (39 songs)
• Ottmar Liebert - Winter Rose (13 songs)

Additional songs 2006:

• Jonathan Coulton - Chiron Beta Prime (1 song)
• Naomi & Shamine King - Christmas with the Swirrels (11 songs)
• Naomi & Shamine King - Duets 2004 "Star Zero" (18 Christmas-related songs)
• Happy Puppy Records - A Happy Puppy Christmas (4 songs)
• Hairy Larry - The Gift (9 songs)
• Anup - Jingle Bells (1 song)
• Shira Kammen - Christmas Day in the Morning (1 song)
• The Kyiv Theological Academy And Seminary Choir - Hymns of the All-Night Vigil (20 songs)
• Drevo - Christian Themes in Ukrainian Folk Songs (22 songs)
• Uncle Seth - To Be An Angel (1 song)
• Die Weihnachtshasser - Gemeines zur Weihnachtszeit (14 songs)
• Die drei Lenöre - Der Weihnachtsmann / Rasierschaum (5 songs)
• Jeff Taylor keeps another list of free Christmas-related music at freechristmasmusic.googlepages.com (but not all of it is Creative Commons licensed!).
• Some more Christmas music will probably appear in my podcast over the next few days, too...

This list is by no means complete, I'm sure. So if you happen to know some more Creative Commons licensed Christmas music, please leave a comment! I'd love to hear about it.

(Btw., the nice image on the right is taken from the Wikipedia. The author is Malene Thyssen, and the image is dual-licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License 1.2 and the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 license)

Merry Christmas everyone!

The Song List

These are all the songs that are either currently available on Uncle Bonsai, Electric Bonsai Band, or Mel Cooleys recordings, or on upcoming releases. In addition, there are a few songs that are/were performed regularly but, for one reason or another, have not found their way to compact disc or cassette.

All song were written by Andrew Ratshin.*

*Lyrics by Arni Adler
**Lyrics by Arni Adler and Andrew Ratshin

After The Flood The Age of Reason The Airplane: Part Two All The Real Cowboys Are Gone A Lonely Grain of Corn* Angry Young Man Another Fat Song Another Pretty Girl With A Guitar

Bedroom Eyes Big Chihuahua* Big Fish Billboard Love Boys Want Sex In The Morning Buddha Boy But I'm Happy Now ^

Charlie and Me Cheerleaders on Drugs* Chicken Little Chubby, Wanna Sundae?** Comfort Me Creatures Of Habit

Delilah Gets Married The Diaper Song Dog At The Gates Of Hell Dollar In My Pocket Don't Worry Baby Doug And The Family Feast Doug At His Mom's Doug At Home Doug at the Gates of Hell (Epilogue) Doug Engaged Doug Gets Married Doug Goes To Town Doug's Birthday Song Doug's Divorce: Part Two Doug's Divorce: Preamble (Doug and the TV: Part Two) Doug's First Date Doug's First Job Doug's Greatest Christmas Ever Doug's Second Proposal Drunken Paul Revere ^

The Emergence of Political Thought: 1960 - 1990 Enterprising Young Man* Epilogue (Doug at the Gates of Hell)

Family Restaurant** Fat Boys (a love song) Fifteen Minutes of Fame Flesh vs Flesh Folk Song Forty Second Song For David Wilcox

Guardian Angel

Happy Endings (Romeo and Juliet) He Must Have Been A Genius Heartache How Hard Is Love ^

I Am Joe's Eyes I Am My Dad I Awoke In Iowa I Like Girls I Love You, I Love You, I Love You, I Love You, I Love You, I Love You, I'm Trying To Read I Owe You An Apology I Want A Man I'm Not The Girl If A Tree Falls If God Went To My High School If You're An Angel (Dancing On Graves) In It For The Children Iowa Apology Song Isaac's Lament Isn't It Sad

JFK Johnny, It's Downhill From Here Julie Andrews Just One Angel

K-MART The King Of Love ^

Learning to Breathe Leave Me Let's Pretend We Never Met (mp3 too) The Letter Little Skipper Lois Lane* Lounging in the Belly of the Beast Lullaby

Making Fun Of Foreigners Me and Mrs. Middle America Men And Women Midas Touch Mr. Nice** My Radio Song Mother to Mother ^

Needle In The Haystack New Math Nobody Loves You Now That The Children Are Gone

One Hit Wonder One In A Million

Paranoid Ex-Lovers Parcel Post Penis Envy** Politically Correct Precious Mime Primal Urges Puberty Wars ^

Ralph Kramdon* The Reunion Song Romeo and Juliet (Happy Endings) Running With Scissors

Scene of the Crime Send My Body Home Silent Night The Skiing Song Square Deal Still In Love, (We'll Pretend That We're Suffer in the Name of Love Suzy ^

Takin' The Kids To Disney World Thank You For The Money That's My Boy That's What Dreams Are For The Baby's Head The Devil You Know Then God Made Malls This Could Be The One This Is The Way This Is What Love Is For True Believer True Love Twentieth Century Man Two Men

The Voice Of God

Weight of the World Welcome to the New World Wheel Of Death Where's The Milk? Who Does Your Friend Like?* (mp3 too) Why Would I Lie? Womb For Rent* Women With A "Y" (Womyn) ^

You Call That A Hat**

Individual Album Lyric Links

Electric Bonsai Band I Am Joe's Eyes But I'm Happy Now 20 Seconds of Pleasure Lounging in the Belly of the Beast Primal Urges Uncle Bonsai The Inessential Uncle Bonsai Myn Ynd Wymyn Doug Plain Brown Wrapper Apology Sponge Boy (CD Single) Mel Cooleys Live(?) In Seattle Patrice O`Neill Elusive Scott Katz WRONG

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