Atheist Christmas song by Tim Minchin - White Wine In The Sun

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Atheist Christmas song by Tim Minchin - White Wine In The Sun

I really like this song. Maybe this is a good answer to 'the Purpose of Christmas'. Hint: It's got nothing to do with Jesus.  ‘White Wine in the Sun’, the beautiful and sentimental encore to Tim’s ‘Ready For This?’ show has been released as a single for the first time and is now available on: iTunes

Tim Minchin - White Wine In The Sun

LYRICS ADDED IN FROM SAPIENT FROM 6lyrics.com: 

 

White Wine In The Sun

I'm looking forward to Christmas

It's sentimental, I know, but I just really like it

I am hardly religious

I'd rather break bread with Dawkins than Desmond Tutu, to be honest

 

And yes, I have all of the usual objections to consumerism

The commercialisation of an ancient religion

And the westernisation of a dead Palestinian

Press-ganged into selling Playstations and beer

But I still really like it

 

I, I really like Christmas

Though I'm not expecting a visit from Jesus

 

I'll be seeing my dad

My brother and sisters, my gran and my mum

They'll be drinking white wine in the sun

I'll be seeing my dad

My sisters and brother, my gran and my mum

They'll be drinking white wine in the sun

 

I don't go for ancient wisdom

I don't believe just 'cos ideas are tenacious it means they are worthy

I get freaked out by churches

Some of the hymns that they sing have nice chords but the lyrics are dodgy

 

And yes I have all of the usual objections to the miseducation

Of children forced into a cult institution and taught to externalise blame

And to feel ashamed and to judge things as plain right and wrong

But I quite like the songs

 

I'm not expecting great presents

The old combination of socks, jocks and chocolate is just fine by me

 

Cause I'll be seeing my dad

My brother and sisters, my gran and my mum

They'll be drinking white wine in the sun

I'll be seeing my dad

My sisters and brother, my gran and my mum

They'll be drinking white wine in the sun

 

And you, my baby girl

My jetlagged infant daughter

You'll be handed round the room

Like a puppy at a primary school

And you're too young to know

But you will learn yourself one day

That wherever you are and whatever you face

These are the people who'll make you feel safe in this world

My sweet blue-eyed girl

 

And if, my baby girl

When you're twenty-one or thirty-one

And Christmas comes around

And you find yourself nine thousand miles from home

You'll know what ever comes

Your brother and sister and me and your

Will be waiting for you in the sun

Girl, when Christmas comes

Your brothers and sisters, your aunts and your uncles

Your grandparents, cousins and me and your mum

Will be drinking white wine in the sun

We'll be waiting for you in the sun

Baby whenever you come

We'll be waiting for you in the sun

Waiting...

 

I, I really like Christmas

It's sentimental, I know

 

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Oooooh that song was so

Oooooh that song was so awesome!  I was getting all teary-eyed from the beautiful imagery and the part for his daughter... 

*sigh*

 

Good stuff.


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Hey guys, Tim's got a shot

Hey guys, Tim's got a shot at making it to the Top 40 on iTunes UK music charts for this Christmas (he's already 67th! ). Apparently this is a big deal in the UK. They have some sort of tradition of shooting for the top in Christmas singles charts. Let's try to do our part. If you can't buy it yourself, consider posting this link/text below at various atheist/freethought sites. Wouldn't it be cool to have a freethinker's song remembered as a popular Christmas song?

From his blog Ready for a Christmas single with a difference?:

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OK, there are red cups at Starbucks and big socks in the shops… so what else is traditional at this time of the year? The Christmas single of course… but not the usual fare eh?

‘White Wine in the Sun’, the beautiful and sentimental encore to Tim’s ‘Ready For This?’ show has been released as a single for the first time and is now available on: iTunes

You can also get it elsewhere, if you are not into iTunes but the best way to ensure that your download counts towards the singles chart is to buy from iTunes.

We know getting it to chart is a ridiculous long shot… but just imagine if it did!


Update: It turns out it can be gifted through iTunes too, which is especially apt at this time of the year and for a Christmas single. Simply click “Gift This Music” under the information on the single’s page. However, it will ask the recipient to download iTunes if they do not already have it or to update if below Version 6. It’s even suitable for your auntie…and beats that pack of hankies she may give you hands down.

 

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Drinking white wine in the

Drinking white wine in the sun? In winter?
Weird words coming from a fellow Brit!
In other news, I'd've done my part for his chart effort had I come across this thread last week.

Nice song.


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 This song has been making

 This song has been making the rounds among all my friends, and all of them love it.

I've pretty much decided that Tim Minchin is about as cool as it gets.

In my normal spirit of taking the middle road, I really do believe that "selling atheism" is like selling anything else.  There's no one approach that's going to work for everybody.  I'm really happy to see someone selling the image of the atheist family man who loves people and life, and doesn't have to be the party-pooper when someone says "Merry Christmas."

Oh... and every girl I know wants to have sex with Tim Minchin.  I'm thinking of going with black eye makeup.

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