Rum Pa Pum Pum

The Jband: Little Drummer Boy

One Christmas was
so much like another,
in those years around
the sea-town corner
now and out
of all sound
except the
distant speaking
of the voices
I sometimes hear
a moment before sleep,
that I can
never remember
whether it snowed for
six days and six nights
when I was twelve
or whether it snowed
for twelve days
and twelve nights
when I was six.
--Dylan Thomas
A Child's Christmas in Wales

Shane McGowan / Sinead O'Connor: Fairytale of New York