Our song for the weekend, "Who'll Stand With Us?," is politically active Boston Celtic punk band Dropkick Murphys' anthemic salvo against the oligarchs:
Who will stand with us?
And as time rolls on
Not a single thing has changed
the wealth gap’s only grown
As we all point the blame
We’re at the throats of one another
Though we share a single fate
And the golden few laugh on and on
As we all take the bait
We've carefully curated a tiny collection of not- your-typical holiday songs designed to provide joy and/or puncture a few treacly memes.
First off, Boston's own Dropkick Murphys with "The Season's Upon Us":
Merle Haggard sings the melancholy but hopeful "If We Make It Through December":
Finally, the Foo Fighters morph "Everlong" into "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" and into the Charlie Brown Christmas song to close out on an upbeat note:
