26-01-2017, 11:57
MFS Wrote:Written more than 200 years ago this old folk has been covered a lot and I read somewhere mr Lennon had this in mind when writing Happy X-mas (war is over)
But as with many other songs in their catalogue, I love this one from The Hollies
Stewball
[video=youtube_share;LRxkwwqvXns]http://youtu.be/LRxkwwqvXns[/video]
Now that it's pointed out, the verse melody of Happy Xmas is exactly the same as this tune. I never noticed that before, probably because it's a very common simple chord progression.
Lennon did, however, enhance it by shifting to a different key for the chorus, not to mention the vocal harmonies, which were I presume supplied by Yoko.