saraha Posted December 17, 2015 Share Posted December 17, 2015 To those whose Christmas comes in the summer: After a day of Christmas shopping and hearing over and over again White Christmas and Winter Wonderland, my kids were curious about the kinds of songs (besides hymns) people sing/listen to during the Christmas season in the southern hemisphere. We would love some you tube links to watch, especially if the songs are in English or have English subtitles. Thanks! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liz CA Posted December 17, 2015 Share Posted December 17, 2015 :bigear: Bumping this. I am curious too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abba12 Posted December 17, 2015 Share Posted December 17, 2015 The same songs..... and we have snow globes and winter themes displays... Yeah, it doesn't make much sense to me either lol. We did have 6 white boomers, but since the songwriter has now been charged as a pedophile that has kinda disappeared from rotation now. Aussie jingle bells is great, but you'll have trouble 'translating' the slang :P https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrPdvh0HRhc Generally though, we just hear the same stuff you do. Maybe with a bit more focus on songs like 'all i want for christmas is you' which doesn't mention snow, but that's debatable. We just accept christmas is this crazy tradition where we all melt while singing about how cold it is in the snow (which many of us have never seen). 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mamiof5 Posted December 17, 2015 Share Posted December 17, 2015 Lol! Have never thought about it. Great question :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tammi K Posted December 17, 2015 Share Posted December 17, 2015 While I could never get used to the hot Australian Christmas, I did love the music! Boomerang of Flowers is one of our favorites. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AurieD Posted December 17, 2015 Share Posted December 17, 2015 As mentioned we mostly listen to northern hemisphere songs about snow in Australia. There are a couple of Australian Christmas songs I really like though. Tim Minchin's White Wine in the Sun Paul Kelly's How to Make Gravy. I don't think either of them get a lot of airplay, but they are reasonably well known. Both can be found on YouTube. They are not your typical Christmas songs so maybe listen to them without your kids first, some religious folk find the Minchin one objectionable and the Paul Kelly one is about a father in prison over Christmas. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annie G Posted December 17, 2015 Share Posted December 17, 2015 Thanks to those who listed songs- I enjoyed hearing them! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saraha Posted December 17, 2015 Author Share Posted December 17, 2015 Thanks! We look forward to checking these out! If anyone thinks of any more, please send them my way, I think I am going to turn this into a family advent activity, Christmas on the other side of the world. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Butter Posted December 17, 2015 Share Posted December 17, 2015 Even in parts of the US White Christmas and such is kind of silly, but we still sing them. This year Christmas in San Antonio is supposed to be 76 degrees! 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lanny Posted December 17, 2015 Share Posted December 17, 2015 We are in South America (Colombia) but we are in the Northern Hemisphere. Just over 3 degrees North of the Equator, where our home is. The songs here are the same that I remember from the USA, but usually, they are in Spanish. We live in a Tropical Valley (Mean temp. is approx. 76 F.) so there is no Snow here, but there is a big snowman in front of the office of our Homeowners Association at this time of the year. In Colombia, it is illegal to cut live trees to be used as Christmas Trees, so everyone uses an Artificial Tree. Growing Live Christmas Trees is an industry in the USA. So, there are some differences, but primarily it is the same holiday, without the Snow/Ice. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UCF612 Posted December 17, 2015 Share Posted December 17, 2015 (edited) Florida doesn't get a white Christmas ever (and sometimes it isn't even chilly) but we sing about it anyhow! Or at least I do and so does the radio. :) Edited December 17, 2015 by UCF612 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady Florida. Posted December 17, 2015 Share Posted December 17, 2015 Florida doesn't get a white Christmas ever (and sometimes it isn't even chilly) but we sing about it anyhow! Or at least I do and so does the radio. :) Yep. We rarely even get a cold day for Christmas, but if we want seasonal songs we have to put up with the songs that assume everyone lives in the same climate. This year's Christmas forecast for my city is a high of 83F and a low of 72 on Christmas Eve. That's a bit high, since we're usually in the 70's for our high, but not completely unusual. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retired Posted December 17, 2015 Share Posted December 17, 2015 I live in the southeastern area of the US. I've only had 1 white Christmas in 45 years and it was about a 1/2 in covering the grass. Its a very rare thing for us to get any snow and even more rare to get enough snow that you could make a snowman. . This whole month the temperature have been in the 70's I wore shorts and sandals to a Christmas party LOL. We sing White Christmas and Winter wonderland then laugh and then we are thankful that we don't have 5 layers of clothes own. I like my warm temp. We average a winter temp 45-50 daytime so its not real cold. We only get very few below freezing days. So I'm enjoying the not so winter wonderland. We are suppose to actually get some winter temperature this weekend. I may get to wear my boots. We have crazy weather a week of heat, a week of cold, a few days of freezing. We don't have constant seasonal temp changes. They change with the jet stream sometimes it dips low from the northern portion of the US and sends us some cold and then we get a current from southwest of us and get some heat from mexico . Weather is really fascinating. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinder Posted December 17, 2015 Share Posted December 17, 2015 Growing up in Hawaii, we sang all the same songs mainlanders do along with large doses of Mele Kalikimaka. We even sang of White Christmases and Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire, though Christmas was typically in the low 70's with "the sun to shine by day and all the stars at night." :p Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SebastianCat Posted December 17, 2015 Share Posted December 17, 2015 (edited) Florida doesn't get a white Christmas ever (and sometimes it isn't even chilly) but we sing about it anyhow! Or at least I do and so does the radio. :) Yep. We rarely even get a cold day for Christmas, but if we want seasonal songs we have to put up with the songs that assume everyone lives in the same climate. This year's Christmas forecast for my city is a high of 83F and a low of 72 on Christmas Eve. That's a bit high, since we're usually in the 70's for our high, but not completely unusual. Another Floridian here. My kids have never seen snow, and it hasn't snowed here since January 1977 (when I was 4, so I don't even remember it). This year our forecast calls for Christmas day to be 86 degrees, so my kids will probably jump in the pool after the Christmas festivities are finished. We wear "Christmas sweater t-shirts" with our shorts and flip flops instead of actual Christmas sweaters. DH & I went to a Christmas party last weekend that was Caribbean themed. There were lots of long, sleeveless, flowered dresses on the women, and the men wore shorts. It was great! Edited December 17, 2015 by SebastianCat2 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EmmaNZ Posted December 17, 2015 Share Posted December 17, 2015 (edited) We have this in NZ. I love it! The pohutakawa tree - only flowers in summer (at Christmas!) 3872 × 2592 - en.wikipedia.org Edited December 17, 2015 by EmmaNZ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vonfirmath Posted December 17, 2015 Share Posted December 17, 2015 Even in parts of the US White Christmas and such is kind of silly, but we still sing them. This year Christmas in San Antonio is supposed to be 76 degrees! I remember LOVING that growing up (In Houston) We'd get a new bike for Christmas and go outside and PLAY Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady Florida. Posted December 17, 2015 Share Posted December 17, 2015 Another Floridian here. My kids have never seen snow, and it hasn't snowed here since January 1977 You must be in South Florida or somewhere on the west coast. Here in East Central Florida it's snowed 2 (or maybe 3) more times since then. But 1977 is the only time it snowed in Miami. (when I was 4, so I don't even remember it). Four???!!! I'm so old. :lol: I was in college at Florida State. People started knocking on doors at my apartment complex about 2AM shouting, "Wake up everyone! It's snowing in Florida!" Tallahassee public schools were closed that day, but FSU didn't cancel classes. No one wanted to go, but the snow melted by early morning anyway, so it's not like we could have stayed home and played in it. We wear "Christmas sweater t-shirts" with our shorts and flip flops instead of actual Christmas sweaters. DH & I went to a Christmas party last weekend that was Caribbean themed. There were lots of long, sleeveless, flowered dresses on the women, and the men wore shorts. It was great! I'm so excited that the cold spell is coming this weekend. I'm going to a Christmas party Saturday night and I get to wear a sweater! But yeah, mostly it's shorts(or capri pants) and flip flops/sandals with an occasional long sleeve shirt. I do have a Christmas tee shirt, which gets worn more years than any Christmas sweater or sweatshirt I've ever owned. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mimm Posted December 17, 2015 Share Posted December 17, 2015 I'm from Houston so I have pictures of me in a tank top decorating Christmas cookies. The year we got a big trampoline, my dad set it up and we were jumping on it that afternoon. When my kids got a trampoline, we didn't set it up for a few months. It was too cold to bother. :) There's something to be said for a nice warm winter. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest2 Posted December 18, 2015 Share Posted December 18, 2015 (edited) In our Texan area , a favorite song is "We Don't Have White Christmases in Houston". Edited December 18, 2015 by Silver Brook Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DawnM Posted December 18, 2015 Share Posted December 18, 2015 I grew up on the Equator, so we didn't have cold Christmas's, but we were also Americans living overseas, so we just listened to the same songs there that we do here. When I lived in LA, we were often in shorts on Christmas. This year may be the same in North Carolina! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deb in NZ Posted December 19, 2015 Share Posted December 19, 2015 (edited) Here's one we love here in NZ http://folksong.org.nz/nzchristmas/christmas_in_new_zealand.html My dc have only experienced a white Christmas once when we spent the holidays with my family in Vermont. For dh & our dc Christmas means dinner with extended family on Christmas day & going to the beach on Boxing Day. It never feel like Christmas to me, but I am grateful that I never had to deal with snowsuits, etc when the kids were little. Edited December 19, 2015 by Deb in NZ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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