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** A parody of a parody: "Grandpa Got Runned Over by a John Deere" by Cledus T. Judd. And yes, it's still a Christmas song... sorta.
** There was also (during the height of their career) a parody song called [[New Kids on the Block|"New Kids Got Run Over By A Reindeer"]] ...
* The many, many [[Bob Rivers]] "Twisted Christmas" songs. (Not all of which are strictly parodies or even humorous -- his version of "O Little Town of Bethlehem" sung to the tune of "House of the Rising Sun" is played remarkably straight.)
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** There's also "Grabbe Yahbalz" ("Grab your balls like Michael Jackson! Fa-la-la-la-la...) and "The Restroom Door Said Gentlemen".
* Bob Dylan [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8qE6WQmNus "Must Be Santa"]. Nothing like a good old-fashioned Hanukkah themed Christmas song!
* Jethro Tull with their whole Christmas Album (though a few ''almost'' play it straight, at least in spirit).
** Also, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h90JVJmPmt0 'A Christmas Song'] one of their earlier songs (reworked on the Christmas Album). Starts off as a traditional carol and then changes theme.
{{quote|''Once in Royal David’s City
''Stood a lowly cattle shed,
''Where a mother laid her baby.
''You’d do well to remember the things He later said.
''When you’re stuffing yourselves at the Christmas parties,
''You’ll laugh when I tell you to take a running jump.
''You’re missing the point I’m sure does not need making;
''The Christmas spirit is not what you drink... }}
{{quote|...[outro] Hey, Santa, pass that bottle will you?}}
* "Rusty Chevrolet", an ode to [[The Alleged Car]], again by [[Da Yoopers]].
* "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyDc1s9imvI Christmas at Ground Zero]" and "The Night Santa Went Crazy", both by [["Weird Al" Yankovic]].
** His song "Weasel Stomping Day", sung in typical [[Glurge|Glurgical]] Christmas style, concerns a fictitious holiday in which people wear Viking helmets, spread mayonnaise on their lawns, and [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|squish weasels under their boots]].
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* "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9Bf2H59cLM I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus]"
* "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHKTj02cmHI Father Christmas]", by [[The Kinks]], in which a man playing Father Christmas outside a (presumably British) department store is mugged by street thugs. "Father Christmas, give us your money! Don't mess around with those silly toys!" Punkest Christmas song ever!
* "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_VhHqK6yoQ All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth]" by [[Spike Jones]].
** And "I'm The Angel In The Christmas Play" by the same, which is about an unrepentant delinquent cheerfully admitting to all the mischief he's been up to, ending each verse with an announcement that he's playing the angel in the school Christmas play.
* "I Won't Be Home For Christmas" by Blink 182, with a chorus that goes "It's Christmas time again/It's time to be nice to the people you can't stand."
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* ''Merry F** king Christmas'' and ''A Lonely Jew On Christmas'', both from ''[[South Park]]''.
* Denis Leary has a Christmas special as well as a song by the title ''Merry F** king Chistmas'', complete with overly cynical lyrics such as "Old St. Nick's got bourbon breath / It's so cold you could catch your death / A cop just sold me crystal meth / It's a merry f** king Christmas"
* Sort of borderline, but ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN2NNwZ1op8 Merry Christmas (I Don't Want to Fight Tonight)]'' by
* "Ohhhh, Santa Claus, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSilUOS4Ph8 Santa Claus, You are much too fat..."] The highlight of many an Elementary School Christmas performance.
* ''Jingle Bell Metal'' by Psychostick contains parodies of several Christmas songs.
* "Ho Ho [BEEP] Ho", "Hey Santa!" (and no doubt a few more) by [[Kevin Bloody Wilson]].
* [[They Might Be Giants]] have a few, most of which involve Santa Claus acting like a dick to the narrator.
* In ''[[The Colbert Report|A Colbert Christmas]]: [http://www.colbertnation.com/video?keywords=A+Colbert+Christmas The Greatest Gift of All]'', Stephen performs the cheery, extremely unsubtle "[http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/211035/november-23-2008/a-colbert-christmas--another-christmas-song Another Christmas Song]", which is all about people buying "Another Christmas Song" and hopefully making it a yearly Christmas standard so that Stephen can get rich. Multiple levels of metafiction at once coupled with multiple levels of [[Special Effect Failure]].
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* "The Twelve Days ''After'' Christmas" focuses on the downsides of owning all the gifts from its namesake song, and the nasty breakup between the "true loves" that results. The title works only because many people don't realize that the actual "Twelve Days of Christmas" ''are'' after Christmas; they are the twelve days from Christmas to Epiphany.
{{quote|''The four calling birds were a big mistake / for their language was obscene / the five golden rings were completely fake / and they turned my fingers green!''}}
* Thrash band Whiplash has a song called I Hate Christmas, with arguably one of the greatest lines in all of music: "Jingle Bells, I'll see you in Hell!"
* Rhan Wilson's [http://www.altared.com/ Altared Christmas] series. The gimmick? What if you played Christmas songs in a [[Darker and Edgier]] minor key? It's a lot better than it sounds, that's what.
* "You Ain't Getting S*** for Christmas". The song is hilarious when ma "Takes the two fruitcakes and the turkey and throws them out the front window."
* Ray Stevens has several, including "Xerox Xmas Letter," (an over-the-top Christmas letter for "Nightmare Before Christmas" (where he dreams that a bunch of lawyers take Santa to court for wearing fur, smoking, working only one day a year, etc.).
* The Jingle Bell Barking Dogs.
** And their feline counterparts.
▲* There is a disturbingly hilarious parody of "Walkin' In A Winter Wonderland" called "Walkin' Round In Women's Underwear", about crossdressing.
* And let's not forget "Monster Holiday", the Christmas-themed sequel to "The Monster Mash".
* [[ACDC]] gives us "Mistress for Christmas", which (as one might have guessed from an AC/DC song) is [[Bawdy Song|less about the "Christmas" part and more about the "Mistress" part]].
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