{"id":441,"date":"2011-12-13T22:28:22","date_gmt":"2011-12-14T06:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookingwithcats.com\/?p=441"},"modified":"2011-12-13T22:28:22","modified_gmt":"2011-12-14T06:28:22","slug":"twelve-days-of-christmas-music-that-doesnt-suck-a-soalin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cookingwithcats.com\/?p=441","title":{"rendered":"Twelve Days of Christmas Music that Doesn’t Suck – A Soalin’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Because really, a lot of it does.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m sorry, I really am, I’ve tried to be the Cheery Christmasy Type who whistles seasonal music because I love it, and not because it’s been permanently etched into my brain due to repetition, but most of that Baby Boomer jolt of Christmas music<\/a> that has become canonical hasn’t aged terribly well, and after twenty two years, I’ve gotten kind of sick of it all. And those specials with the wood elves and stuff<\/a>. I’m tired of those too. Humbug.<\/p>\n

There is a lot of Christmas music that I do enjoy though, and I’d like to share it with you.\u00c2\u00a0 This one is a bit of a favorite of my family. We first discovered it in Deborah Turney Zagwyn’s book “The Winter Gift”<\/a>. Since none of us were terribly good with reading sheet music, we would sing the song to a much brighter, cheery tune, but eventually a kindly music teacher set us straight. It’s pretty and haunting and hopeful, and it’s one that I find myself singing all year long.<\/p>\n