India Ramey - Cocktail Christmas
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🗓️ 23 December 2021
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Summary
India Ramey - "Cocktail for Christmas" from the 2021 album Christmas Times A'Comin' 2021 on Medicine Show Records.
This week, we are continuing a long-held tradition of featuring Christmas-themed songs selected by Brian Foss, host of KEXP’s punk show Sonic Reducer. Brian has been doing a punk rock Christmas special every year since 2004 and has been a Christmas Day on-air DJ since 2012. He will be hosting his non-traditional Christmas broadcast from noon to 6pm on Saturday, December 25th and then will be back on air later that night for Punk Rock Xmess 2021 at 9pm. No standards are played, only original X-Mess songs, most with a humorous bent.
We’re getting a little more Southern for today’s Song of the Day. “Cocktail for Christmas” is a bluegrass country tune about dealing with family during the holidays by getting completely and utterly wasted. With a delightful twang, India Ramey spells out her plan for coping, “Well Uncle Ren is drunk and talking politics again /I try to keep the peace but the room is starting to spin /But that’s fine with me /I’m where I need to be /To put up with my loved ones /I'll be lit up like a Christmas tree by the time the turkey's done.” Certainly one way to handle it!
Ramey is an Alabama-based lawyer-turned-musician who’s released who’s released four albums in the past decade, her most recent being 2020’s Shallow Graves. “Cocktail for Christmas” is included on Christmas Times A’ Comin’ 2021, the 6th compilation of holiday songs from The Medicine Show, a Scottish booking, promotion, and broadcast company run by Rob Ellen. Watch the kitschy video for “Cocktail for Christmas” directed by Stacie Huckeba at the link below.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, it's Christmas time, and I'm trying to get nice |
| 0:05.0 | But this particular year, I'm skating on thin ice |
| 0:10.0 | I got a stack of fields, and I get the chills at the family puzzle |
| 0:16.0 | Don't frame me anything, but I don't need second money in passing on |
| 0:24.0 | All I want is this here is a cocktail for Christmas |
| 0:29.0 | A little bit quick to cheer, something festive and delicious |
| 0:34.0 | It'll give me through the season, it's a gift that keeps on getting on |
| 0:40.0 | All I want is this here is a cocktail for Christmas |
| 0:47.0 | Well, all the rain is drunk and talking politics again |
| 0:53.0 | I try to keep the peace, but the room is starting to spin |
| 0:58.0 | That's fine with me, I'm where I need to think to put up with my luck words |
| 1:07.0 | I'll be lit up like a Christmas tree by the time that's what I've been done |
| 1:15.0 | All I want is this here is a cocktail for Christmas |
| 1:21.0 | A little bit quick to cheer, something festive and delicious |
| 1:26.0 | It'll give me through the season, it's a gift that keeps on getting on |
| 1:32.0 | All I want is this here is a cocktail for Christmas |
| 1:45.0 | And my mind starts to cry, and I'm a new world pass of aggression |
| 2:06.0 | Daddy pretends to sleep to avoid confrontation |
| 2:12.0 | I've got a ways to go, I'm sweating too, I'm broke as grandpa asks for blessing |
| 2:18.0 | I'll be good in time, sing inside the clock, but everybody is pushing in your name |
| 2:25.0 | All I want is this here is a cocktail for Christmas |
| 2:31.0 | A little bit quick to cheer, something festive and delicious |
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