One, two, three, four Here comes Santa in his sleigh Those silver bells they sound so gay His shiny sleigh is heaped with toys To give to all good girls and boys With dolls and gollywogs and clockwork trains Trams, tin soldiers and little model planes Going to fill your stocking so long as you've been good And I'm sure that you have because you know you should Middle eight! "Have I got to sing that?" "Yes!" "No you don't sing, you just say it" "Okay" "All right?" "Right" "One, two, three . . ." Cheerful face is wreathed in smiles Can see him coming for miles and miles As he passes by he'll catch your ear With "Merry Christmas, guys, and a happy New Year!" "Man!" "Shout that as a cheery Christmas greeting, Alan" "Yeah, shout that one out, right?" Turkey and sausages and Christmas pud "Have another helping John!" Oh, I don't think I could Christmas parcels under the tree None for you and six for me!
dawn fillinger Oh let's see... There's Sysyphus Part 3, Several Species of Small Fury Animals and Seamus to name a few. There's some funny songs on some of the bootlegs like Zabriskie Point sessions. Corporal Clegg is also sort of dark humour.
It's fun, Pink Floyd have always had humour (remember "Seamus" off Meddle album?). Just feels good to see that, apart from all the lyrical and musical depth in their works, they could do something like this.
He does sing in Corporal Clegg, I think. I've heard some conflicting sources about that one, but it sounds almost identical to the vocals on "Scream Thy Last Scream", which is almost certainly him.
Haha this is hilarious. It's too bad the Floyd didn't do more goofy stuff like this. "Seamus" and "Corporal Clegg" are probably the closest they ever got to slapstick on an official release. Also, I love how this is only a reworked version of "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" with some really English lyrics.
' Ah! vous dirai-je, maman' (English: Oh! Shall I tell you, Mama) is a popular children's song in France. Since its composition in the 18th century, the melody has been applied to numerous lyrics in multiple languages - the English-language song "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" is one such example.
Roger Waters has such a strange face.....he looks more normal that he's older....but he had such a wide, unusual face.....I wouldn't want to fight him.....he looks tough....lol.
This very much sounds like Syd Barrett singing a child like song just in time for the Christmas holiday…”Welcome my son…Welcome to the Machine!!!”…Karl Schumaker 🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷
Apparantly this was Recorded in 1969 but Released in 1975 ---it Is Definitely Nick singing--I recognise hs voice from all the Interviews I've seen/heard :o) Fun Song--wish I could Understand ALL of what they are saying LOL
I think it's not real debut, because Nick did his contribution by speech frase in "One of These Days". Also, there are indications about Nick Mason singing on unreleased version of "Scream Thy Last Scream". But, rumours about Nick's vocal parts in "Corporal Clegg" are bullshit (verses like "he won it in the war, 1944.") are nonsense - 'cos Roger sings it through the megaphone, possibly vocoder.
"The Merry Xmas Song" is a humorous song written for a one-off performance on BBC radio in 1969, during the Zabriskie Point soundtrack sessions. It is notable as the last of only five Pink Floyd songs to feature Mason on vocals (Syd Barrett's Scream Thy Last Scream, also unreleased; Corporal Clegg; Atom Heart Mother; and One of These Days). It can be found on a number of bootleg recordings.
@Deefanan666 POTW was written by Waters, and despite Gilmour, I doubt he would call it a "throwaway strum along". I think both parts have meaningful lyrics which relate to the album's theme, i.e in part 1: "We would zigzag our way through the boredom and pain/Occasionally glancing up through the rain/Wondering which of the buggers to blame" or part 2: "So I don't feel alone, or the weight of the stone/now that I've found somewhere safe to bury my bones/Cause every fool knows a dog needs a home"
@FossilisedFishooks wtf people, why do you all think the wall is crap? it's a bloody masterpiece, the fact that it's all about waters should annoy dave or rick or nick, not you!
The forgotten XMAS SONG Richard Wright on keyboards and Nick Yesseerriie Nick Mason on vocals, still more meaningful than that Noel Edmonds nobhead shaped kiddy monster in pink and are they yellow or white scabs or spots.... who cares but hideous, at least Nick Mason enjoyed and is immortal on very few PF Songs.... God bless the " QUESSENTIALY BRITISH PINK FLOYD " all you need to know about our green and pleasant lands musical DNA ( ok and I suppose a mention for the Beatles) Rule Brittania👍 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧👍
@clix411 Haha I feel so fucking stupid, you know why the chords sounds so familiar to me? Cause these are the first ones I learnt to play. (Yeah I've been teaching myself so things like A and G and E , those chords came later on... ) Haha thanks man for clearing out my own brainfarts (wow that sound nasty)
That's good to know, because, I love pink Floyd. And being a Christian, I sometimes have to defend them against over zealous Christians who insist they were all out of their minds on lots of drugs because no one could write that type of music without drugs. I knew they were dead wrong. Heck, I write spaced out psychedelic music and i'm not on drugs!
Here comes Santa in his sleigh Those silver bells they sound so gay His shiny sleigh is heaped with toys To give to all good girls and boys With dolls and *gollywogs and clockwork trains Trams, tin soldiers and little model planes Going to fill your stocking so long as you've been good And I'm sure that you have because you know you should Middle eight! "Have I got to sing that?" "Yes!" "No you don't sing, you just say it." "Okay." "All right?" "Right." "One, two, three…" Cheerful face is wreathed in smiles Can see him coming for miles and miles As he passes by he'll catch your ear With "Merry Christmas guys and a Happy New Year!" "Man!" "Shout that as a cheery Christmas greeting, Alan." "Yeah, shout that one out, right?" Turkey and sausages and Christmas pud "Have another helping John!" Oh, I don't think I could Christmas parcels under the tree None for you and six for me! *gollywogs are black rag dolls
@Deefanan666 I hear you. I used to be really into the wall, but it's kind of a bummer lol. I think Waters was at the top of his game in the mid '70s, but then with the Wall and the Final Cut he got all depressing with it. I guess it's personal preference, and believe me I'm not downing the Wall or anything. It used to be my favorite Floyd album. But right now I've come to appreciate the social commentary of Animals, WYWH, and DSOTM far better. I just wish I had a chance to see em live.
Has anyone else besides me noticed that this is essentially the chorus of David Gilmour's "Cruise," from his "About Face" solo album!? "Saving our children, saving our land, protecting us from things we can't understand..."
Im not sure :P could be that one, but it could also be another song. Nevermind you dont question Pink Floyd, it would be the same thing as getting into an arm wrestling contest against Chuck Norris, you either loose, or you loose.
Yo, to the certain person who i’ve been conversing with in the past few minutes (i’m paranoid the cia might track me if i give any more details), i totally knew this song existed before i made the playlist! You know who you are. Sincerely, the man from the lone star state
if only Pink Floyd has let Mason sing and done more music like this (a la Robert Wyatt) instead of recording forgettable overblown crap like The Wall....
yea i hear ya!! im sick of the wall!! he needs to play with mason and gilmour!!! DSOTM and everything before that is my favorite Pink Floyd era. then they released WYWH and they became not only the most successful rock band in the 70s (next to Led Zeppelin of course) but they became the most innovative and influential group of composers ever to walk the earth. They're records sell like mad still to this day! Waters and Pink Floyd wer def at the top of their game in the 70s. Meddle to The wall
Very interesting I have not heard this in my life and I am interested in various alternative versions and unreleased of their songs on albums and from other bands but this esperiment not at all ⭐
этот распев напоминает мне первые уроки английского языка в средней школе 530 г. Пушкина и учительницы Доры Борисовны. Она ставила пластиночку с такой мелодией, и мы запоминали порядок английских букв
@robwheelut I often feel sorry for Roger Waters, seeing that he was completely wrong about Floyd's survivability without him, and how they went on to create great, touching artwork without him, also knowing that the lyrics would have been much better with him around. Also, with Waters around, we not have to have been subjected to the one Richard Wright song from "The Division Bell," which I can't stand to this day.
So what's the scene here? Obviously Nick and Alan, but who else is there? Was that Roger's voice talking to Alan? Is Rick playing the piano? Was that David's laugh I heard? Inquiring minds (at least mine, that is!) want to know!! Anyone?
they sound like a bunch of teenage boys giggling! I love this
R. Wadsworth ikr, who’s that cackle at 1:52
@@meerkat8769 Alan Styles (at 1.52 and 1.29)
Merry Christmas everyone
cool.!!!...but I think this was recorded during the recording of Zabriskie Point...so aprox. 1969...
Nick Mason is singing
I think they're pissed in this.
They don't sound angry at all.
Well, considering there are five times as many people living in the US
than in England, I just assumed the OP meant it the more widely accepted way.
"Pissed" means drunk in every English speaking country except the US.
Get on the same sheet of music, Dave.
Yeah Dave.
One, two, three, four
Here comes Santa in his sleigh
Those silver bells they sound so gay
His shiny sleigh is heaped with toys
To give to all good girls and boys
With dolls and gollywogs and clockwork trains
Trams, tin soldiers and little model planes
Going to fill your stocking so long as you've been good
And I'm sure that you have because you know you should
Middle eight!
"Have I got to sing that?"
"Yes!"
"No you don't sing, you just say it"
"Okay"
"All right?"
"Right"
"One, two, three . . ."
Cheerful face is wreathed in smiles
Can see him coming for miles and miles
As he passes by he'll catch your ear
With "Merry Christmas, guys, and a happy New Year!"
"Man!"
"Shout that as a cheery Christmas greeting, Alan"
"Yeah, shout that one out, right?"
Turkey and sausages and Christmas pud
"Have another helping John!"
Oh, I don't think I could
Christmas parcels under the tree
None for you and six for me!
Shouldn't it be "Middle A"? As in the note?
@@dariawells7438 Middle eight is another term for the bridge or B section
Fun
Tks sharing text
Lovely!! Now, can anyone tell me who's saying what here??
I love how they are just normal guys laughing their asses off, but their music is so deep.
This never turned into anything. Why? This is the only Pink Floyd Christmas song.
Nick Mason vocals > the entire world XD
This is the funniest Pink Floyd song I've ever heard.
There's a few to choose from
Okay Cesarini like which ones????
dawn fillinger Oh let's see... There's Sysyphus Part 3, Several Species of Small Fury Animals and Seamus to name a few. There's some funny songs on some of the bootlegs like Zabriskie Point sessions. Corporal Clegg is also sort of dark humour.
Okay Cesarini thank you i will have to look them up .merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!!
dawn fillinger Merry Christmas to you too!
It's fun, Pink Floyd have always had humour (remember "Seamus" off Meddle album?). Just feels good to see that, apart from all the lyrical and musical depth in their works, they could do something like this.
Nick give me good vibes, I love him 🥹
i love him too
Nick Mason's real vocal debut!
He does sing in Corporal Clegg, I think. I've heard some conflicting sources about that one, but it sounds almost identical to the vocals on "Scream Thy Last Scream", which is almost certainly him.
BackRowRacing98 he did vocsls on one of theee days
Yep. He definitely sings in STLS.
This gave me a good laugh. Nick Mason's vocals aren't bad at all. Too bad he hardly ever sung.
He sang on Corporal Clegg / One Of These Days / Scream Thy Last Scream
Your welcome
But he never 'sang'. Those were spoken vocals
@@Syfoll He's singing on Scream Thy Last Scream
@@CurBavard Yea I know. And basically you can say that he also sings on Corporal Clegg
Ringo sang a few songs.Why didn’t Nick sing more?
He sounds like Syd Barret. hehe
He he, exactly.
@@dragmio now check my comment in 6 days
"......As long as you've been good. As I'm sure that you have, because you know you should!"
I laughed
Turkey and sausages came first, then Christmas pud. Undeniable proof that if you don't eat your meat you can't have any pudding
Nick's sence of humour is brilliant.
I am going to play this, come Christmas time, and see how annoyed my non Floydian family members get!!
Alan? THAT Alan? The one that had that psychedelic breakfast?
Hilarious. .. only can come from the funniest Floyd... read his book four times and I still laugh...
Great job Nick...
"Have I got to sing that?" Hahahaha lmao 😂😂😂
Who said that? Was it Alan...because it sounded kinda like David. THAT'S why I wish there was video to go along with this sort of stuff!
He sings better than Ringo!
Poor Ringo🤣
Haha this is hilarious. It's too bad the Floyd didn't do more goofy stuff like this. "Seamus" and "Corporal Clegg" are probably the closest they ever got to slapstick on an official release.
Also, I love how this is only a reworked version of "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" with some really English lyrics.
' Ah! vous dirai-je, maman' (English: Oh! Shall I tell you, Mama) is a popular children's song in France. Since its composition in the 18th century, the melody has been applied to numerous lyrics in multiple languages - the English-language song "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" is one such example.
Seven Species Gathered in a Cave is funny to me....also the song where the fly gets swatted is also funny
This is gold. Nick has such a great voice!
Merry Christmas 2023 to everyone listening to this masterpiece! 🎄☃️
merry christmas!! ❤
The title is "The Christmas Song", as Nick Mason said... and the song was recorded in 1969 in Rome... Anyway is a great song! ;)
I love this, Nick should have sung more.
Roger Waters has such a strange face.....he looks more normal that he's older....but he had such a wide, unusual face.....I wouldn't want to fight him.....he looks tough....lol.
Wow. Like the beatles, Floyd should have allowed Nick to do some lead vocals. He's not bad.
Merry Christmas 2022 Floydians! 🎄🎁
This very much sounds like Syd Barrett singing a child like song just in time for the Christmas holiday…”Welcome my son…Welcome to the Machine!!!”…Karl Schumaker 🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷
Hilarious and adorkable. Who said The Floyd were always morose? This is great!
The ending....LOL!
Merry Christmas 2021 Pink Floyd fans! 🎄❤️
1:03..literally the cutest thing in the world. Change my mind
WHO SAID IT?!
Apparantly this was Recorded in 1969 but Released in 1975 ---it Is Definitely Nick singing--I recognise hs voice from all the Interviews I've seen/heard :o) Fun Song--wish I could Understand ALL of what they are saying LOL
I think it's not real debut, because Nick did his contribution by speech frase in "One of These Days". Also, there are indications about Nick Mason singing on unreleased version of "Scream Thy Last Scream". But, rumours about Nick's vocal parts in "Corporal Clegg" are bullshit (verses like "he won it in the war, 1944.") are nonsense - 'cos Roger sings it through the megaphone, possibly vocoder.
The best Pink Floyd Song ever :D
Merry Christmas all. I always return to this classic this time of year.
merry christmas buddy
Merry Christmas again I expect you here
That's why he's the drummer. Merry Christmas Syd!
It's a shame Nick didn't sing more fore Pink Floyd, his voice is not bad at all.
"The Merry Xmas Song" is a humorous song written for a one-off performance on BBC radio in 1969, during the Zabriskie Point soundtrack sessions. It is notable as the last of only five Pink Floyd songs to feature Mason on vocals (Syd Barrett's Scream Thy Last Scream, also unreleased; Corporal Clegg; Atom Heart Mother; and One of These Days). It can be found on a number of bootleg recordings.
This is definitely Nick singing. Not bad at all!
From "A Tree Full Of Secrets" the rare collection thing.
Only time Nick sings. His voice is nice.
Aw come on everyone let's stop fighting and just listen to the song. Laugh. Smile. No need to waste time fighting on the Internet
@Deefanan666 POTW was written by Waters, and despite Gilmour, I doubt he would call it a "throwaway strum along". I think both parts have meaningful lyrics which relate to the album's theme, i.e in part 1: "We would zigzag our way through the boredom and pain/Occasionally glancing up through the rain/Wondering which of the buggers to blame" or part 2: "So I don't feel alone, or the weight of the stone/now that I've found somewhere safe to bury my bones/Cause every fool knows a dog needs a home"
Absolutely bloody marvellous happy everything to everyone 😊
@FossilisedFishooks wtf people, why do you all think the wall is crap? it's a bloody masterpiece, the fact that it's all about waters should annoy dave or rick or nick, not you!
It reminds me of the Beatles’ Fan Club holiday messages
Yeah, it is quite similar! I had forgot about those.
The forgotten XMAS SONG Richard Wright on keyboards and Nick Yesseerriie Nick Mason on vocals, still more meaningful than that Noel Edmonds nobhead shaped kiddy monster in pink and are they yellow or white scabs or spots.... who cares but hideous, at least Nick Mason enjoyed and is immortal on very few PF Songs.... God bless the " QUESSENTIALY BRITISH PINK FLOYD " all you need to know about our green and pleasant lands musical DNA ( ok and I suppose a mention for the Beatles) Rule Brittania👍 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧👍
WOW! almost sounds like Syd a little bit
syd taught them well
7upIsLove 💎💎💓💔
@clix411 Haha I feel so fucking stupid, you know why the chords sounds so familiar to me? Cause these are the first ones I learnt to play. (Yeah I've been teaching myself so things like A and G and E , those chords came later on... ) Haha thanks man for clearing out my own brainfarts (wow that sound nasty)
soo,according to Roger Waters,the Pink Floyd didn't take drugs....? 😂
Don't underestimate alcohol.
jon-eirik strøm well on howard stern he said they did and so did david
A sweet polar bear Gilmour and Wright were huge coke heads
That's good to know, because, I love pink Floyd. And being a Christian, I sometimes have to defend them against over zealous Christians who insist they were all out of their minds on lots of drugs because no one could write that type of music without drugs. I knew they were dead wrong.
Heck, I write spaced out psychedelic music and i'm not on drugs!
They sure sang about them though
NICKY!!!
And later it became "Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast".
This is pretty neat. It sounds like the Beatles just a tad.
Can someone write the lyrics and what they are talking my english isnt that good and I dont understand...:S.
Here comes Santa in his sleigh
Those silver bells they sound so gay
His shiny sleigh is heaped with toys
To give to all good girls and boys
With dolls and *gollywogs and clockwork trains
Trams, tin soldiers and little model planes
Going to fill your stocking so long as you've been good
And I'm sure that you have because you know you should
Middle eight!
"Have I got to sing that?"
"Yes!"
"No you don't sing, you just say it."
"Okay."
"All right?"
"Right."
"One, two, three…"
Cheerful face is wreathed in smiles
Can see him coming for miles and miles
As he passes by he'll catch your ear
With "Merry Christmas guys and a Happy New Year!"
"Man!"
"Shout that as a cheery Christmas greeting, Alan."
"Yeah, shout that one out, right?"
Turkey and sausages and Christmas pud
"Have another helping John!"
Oh, I don't think I could
Christmas parcels under the tree
None for you and six for me!
*gollywogs are black rag dolls
Feylin Finn your awesome thank you!
Says recorded in 75 but Ted Alvey has an interview with both Rick and Nick in 71 mentions this recording they made.
@clix411 do you know what chords they are? I'm not good enough to make it out by ear but they seem so familiar to me, drives me mad...
Nick is just lovely.
Does Nick do the piano too?
I think it’s either Rick or whoever did the piano on The Final Cut.
@@Yakkymania It actually could even be David....wish someone knew this stuff.....
Brilliant!!!🎄🙃Merry PF Christmas🌑
This sounds sorta like bike...
couldn't tell if the "gay" was sincere or sarcastic
In 1975, I don't think the word's "homosexual" meaning was already as ubiquitous as it is today.
It did have that meaning.
@@beatlesrgear sodomy is cool bro
the tune from 1:11 to 1:23 reminds me of another song... but i don't know which song
Yes! Same here!! I thought it was only me! I still couldn't find out which song this particular part you say remind me of :S
@MrJoeymook Hmm. I'm thinking Tull's Thick as a Brick may be the best one track album ever.
@Deefanan666 I hear you. I used to be really into the wall, but it's kind of a bummer lol. I think Waters was at the top of his game in the mid '70s, but then with the Wall and the Final Cut he got all depressing with it. I guess it's personal preference, and believe me I'm not downing the Wall or anything. It used to be my favorite Floyd album. But right now I've come to appreciate the social commentary of Animals, WYWH, and DSOTM far better. I just wish I had a chance to see em live.
Has anyone else besides me noticed that this is essentially the chorus of David Gilmour's "Cruise," from his "About Face" solo album!? "Saving our children, saving our land, protecting us from things we can't understand..."
One of my favourites!
Im not sure :P could be that one, but it could also be another song.
Nevermind you dont question Pink Floyd, it would be the same thing as getting into an arm wrestling contest against Chuck Norris, you either loose, or you loose.
they should play this song live
A merry FLOYD christmas !!!!
Would have made a great little flip side.
Yo, to the certain person who i’ve been conversing with in the past few minutes (i’m paranoid the cia might track me if i give any more details), i totally knew this song existed before i made the playlist! You know who you are. Sincerely, the man from the lone star state
I'm dreaming of a pink Christmas
I wish everyone a pleasant holiday alongside loved ones and family 🎄🎁🎀⭐
Is it Nick singing? I though it was Roger
go listen to the wall
if only Pink Floyd has let Mason sing and done more music like this (a la Robert Wyatt) instead of recording forgettable overblown crap like The Wall....
yea i hear ya!! im sick of the wall!! he needs to play with mason and gilmour!!!
DSOTM and everything before that is my favorite Pink Floyd era. then they released WYWH and they became not only the most successful rock band in the 70s (next to Led Zeppelin of course) but they became the most innovative and influential group of composers ever to walk the earth. They're records sell like mad still to this day! Waters and Pink Floyd wer def at the top of their game in the 70s. Meddle to The wall
1#pink floyd
2#led zep
3#the doors
@Deefanan666 DSOTM or Animals have much more meaning IMO
Very interesting I have not heard this in my life and I am interested in various alternative versions and unreleased of their songs on albums and from other bands but this esperiment not at all ⭐
Where does someone even get a gem like this?
Heaven.
Here's you Oscar, sir.
этот распев напоминает мне первые уроки английского языка в средней школе 530 г. Пушкина и учительницы Доры Борисовны. Она ставила пластиночку с такой мелодией, и мы запоминали порядок английских букв
It's great! I love you Nick!
so funny and adorable
@robwheelut I often feel sorry for Roger Waters, seeing that he was completely wrong about Floyd's survivability without him, and how they went on to create great, touching artwork without him, also knowing that the lyrics would have been much better with him around. Also, with Waters around, we not have to have been subjected to the one Richard Wright song from "The Division Bell," which I can't stand to this day.
nick mason is the law was the best of the floyds
@Evilchic114 Do you even know about music? Go get yourself checked.
WHAT THE FUCK IS DOING LADY GAGA AT THE NEXT OF THIS VIDEO?! :@
also Pink Floyd in Xmas time
I love this! Just Nick being funny. I also love the piano.
Is it Rick playing, or one of the others?...seeing they all can play everything! Wish there was a video for this!!!! ❤❤
Lovely smiling Nick Mason!
That's actually Nick not quite smiling in this picture that's Rick wright smiling
Brilliant 🤣👍🎵🎵
So what's the scene here? Obviously Nick and Alan, but who else is there? Was that Roger's voice talking to Alan? Is Rick playing the piano? Was that David's laugh I heard? Inquiring minds (at least mine, that is!) want to know!! Anyone?
I'm in love with Santa and pink floyd. Very good boys. Very good.
1969 not 1975
I've never found lyrics to be all that important in music. I mean do you really listen to music for the lyrics? If so, just read poetry.
We songwriters put lyrics in for good reason.
Not just to needlessly run our mouths. Idiot.
Lyrics are usually the best part