I started thinking tonight about how a lot of the Christmas songs we hear are about snow, having a white christmas, and sitting by the fire. It’s certainly not like that in Australia!! Here we’re used to sweating, having bbq’s, lots of swimming in the pool or the ocean, and sunburn.
Santa has a change of attire when visiting Australia
Originally I twittered the question of whether there were any Aussie Christmas carols anyone knew of (two replies about Rolf Harris and his song “6 White Boomers” – itunes link), and after starting to do a little bit of research it was clear it would need a blog post. Hence I present to you, a comprehensive list of songs available in iTunes that’s truly representative of an Aussie Christmas! Even if some of them are slightly bogan’ish.
- 6 White Boomers – Rolf Harris
- Aussie Jingle Bells – Bucko & Champs (there’s actually tons of versions of this song on iTunes)
- 12 Days of Aussie Christmas – Bucko & Champs
- Album called Aussie Christmas with Bucko & Champs by Bucko & Champs
- A Very Merry Aussie Christmas – Ticklish Allsorts
- Australians let us Barbecue – Bucko & Champs (had to mention this one – to the tune of the anthem)
- Album called True Blue Aussie Christmas by Dimmer Twins
And that’s enough for me tonight! I must say, I was quite surprised…I actually didn’t think there would be that much but I was pleasantly surprised. Not that it converted into purchases or anything. I just can’t work out whether it means that there’s more “novelty” albums out there that I expected, or I’m just not up to par on the Christmas albums!
Bonus link – an app in the App Store for Australian Slang, appropriately named “Aussie (Australian) Slang“