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Saturday Morning Country: Merle Haggard

Saturday, 28th November 2009

At this time of year and with Christmas all but upon us Mr Haggard offers a rare but necessary perspective on all this Christmas Cheer. If we make it through December,..


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Snowman

November 28th, 2009 12:38pm Report this comment

Alex, that’s very good, but anywhere near my favorite Christmas ballad - ‘The Fairytale of New York’ with Katie Melua and the toothless Shane. It has both hope and despair in equal measure, it serves up the limitations of the human condition like no other Christmas song ever can. My eyes never fail to cloud listening to it. Priceless.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ig3EjNlKP5M

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