I discovered this one on the radio, of all places, by a station that used the wonderful compilation Must Be Santa! The Rounder Christmas Album in its holiday-music programming. ![]() McCutcheon's version is a first-person account by a fictional (?) soldier named Francis Tolliver, who reflects years later on what it really meant. For 24 hours, the Brits and Germans stopped shooting at each other and sang, played pickup soccer, exchanged pleasantries and gifts, and other peaceful activities while their superiors either looked the other way or joined in themselves. Several I will mention that I like to hear every year: "Christmas in the Trenches" by John McCutcheon - the best song ever written about the 1914 Christmas Truce, which took place during World War I. I could probably do a Top 40 of nothing but relatively obscure holiday recordings. There are all kinds of wonderful obscure Christmas songs I enjoy.
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