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Never mind play the Holiday Songs Quiz below:

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Christmas Carols and Songs
Final Exam

The following words are alternate titles for several well-known holiday songs.
If you get 100% correct, you will be assured a full holiday stocking!
Have fun!!

1. Quadruped with crimson proboscis_______________
   
2. 5 p.m. to 6 a.m. without noise___________________
   
3. Miniscule hamlet in the far east __________________
   
4. Ancient benevolent despot ______________________
   
5. Adorn the vestibule ___________________________
   
6. Exuberance directed to the planet ________________
   
7. Listen, aerial spirits harmonizin _________________
   
8. Monarchial trio _______________________________
   
9. Yonder in the haystack _________________________
   
10. Assemble, everyone who believes _________________
    
11. Hallowed post meridian _________________________
    
12. Fantasies of a colorless December 25^th _____________
    
13. Tin tintinnabulums ____________________________
    
14. A dozen 24-hour yule periods ____________________
    
15. Befell during the transparent bewitching hour ______
    
16. Homo sapien of crystallized vapor ________________
    
17. I merely desire a pair of incisors __________________
    
18. I spied my maternal parent osculating a fat man in red__
    
19. Perambulating through a December solstice fantasy ____
    
20. Aloft on the acme of the abode _____________________

    Results:

    15 – 20 Correct — You don’t need any Yuletide spirit!

    10 – 14 Correct — You could use something in your stocking!

    5 – 9 Correct — Are you sure you have the right holiday?

    1 – 4 Correct — Surely you jest!?!

    (If you have to know the answers!!!!!!)
    
    For Holiday Songs Final Version 2.0 (some of the same songs with other alternatives) click here

Take This Tune - Gloomy Sunday

Jamie of Duward Discussion has a brand new meme called Take This Tune. When I read her post the song that I'm going to post about jumped into my thoughts. I don't know why...


Gloomy Sunday has an unusual background. It's been called the Hungarian Suicide Song because legend says that after one has heard it he/she will commit suicide. Remember only legend!

To me it's a beautiful, heartfelt, very sad song that gives me chills. Just like the song Jamie posted about, "Sull'aria" - A Little Song On The breeze.

"Gloomy Sunday" is a song composed by Hungarian pianist and composer Rezső Seress in 1933 to a Hungarian poem written by László Jávor (original Hungarian title of both song and poem "Szomorú vasárnap" (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈsomoruː ˈvɒʃaːrnɒp]), in which the singer mourns the untimely death of a lover and contemplates suicide.

Though recorded and performed by many singers, "Gloomy Sunday" is closely associated with Billie Holiday, who scored a hit version of the song in 1941. Due to unsubstantiated urban legends about its inspiring hundreds of suicides, "Gloomy Sunday" was dubbed the "Hungarian suicide song" in the United States. Seress did commit suicide in 1968, but most other rumors of the song being banned from radio, or sparking suicides, are unsubstantiated, and were partly propagated as a deliberate marketing campaign. Possibly due to the context of the Second World War, Billie Holiday's version was, however, banned by the BBC.

Here are the lyrics:

Sunday is gloomy,
My hours are slumberless
Dearest the shadows
I live with are numberless
Little white flowers
Will never awaken you
Not where the black coaches
Sorrow has taken you
Angels have no thoughts
Of ever returning you
Wouldnt they be angry
If I thought of joining you?

Gloomy sunday

Gloomy is sunday,
With shadows I spend it all
My heart and i
Have decided to end it all
Soon therell be candles
And prayers that are said I know
But let them not weep
Let them know that Im glad to go
Death is no dream
For in death Im caressin you
With the last breath of my soul
Ill be blessin you

Gloomy sunday

Dreaming, I was only dreaming
I wake and I find you asleep
In the deep of my heart here
Darling I hope
That my dream never haunted you
My heart is tellin you
How much I wanted you
Gloomy sunday

What Kind of Christmas Song Are you?

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Your Christmas Song Is

Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas Have yourself a merry little Christmas, Let your heart be light From now on, Our troubles will be out of sight From baking cookies to giving gifts to everyone... You enjoy brightening up the season for those you know

What Christmas Carol Are You?