Name: Johnny Hates Christmas
Duration: P00H02M29S
Description: When Jack said that he wanted to cover a wide variety of music genres in this project, I knew I wanted to write a punk song. Fear not! This one has a happy ending. Or at least the potential for a happy ending.

Johnny Hates Christmas

from Christmas in the Temple by Midnight Mess

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When Jack said that he wanted to cover a wide variety of music genres in this project, I knew I wanted to write a punk song. Fear not! This one has a happy ending. Or at least the potential for a happy ending.

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Johnny Hates Christmas (written by Jimmy Cowan)

Johnny’s hated Christmas since he’s nine-years-old
When his sister got a doll and he got a lump of coal
Johnny hated doing as he was told
Yeah Johnny got coal, Johnny got coal
Oh Johnny hates Christmas

Johnny hated Christmas in Vietnam
And he was put up for adoption by his dad and mom
Johnny ain’t been the same since both of those
Yeah Johnny got sold, Johnny got sold
Oh Johnny hates Christmas

And Johnny he can’t wait till Boxing Day
And all the Merry Christmases fade way

Johnny’s eats at the diner every day at five
Cause the girl that works the counter looks at him and smiled
And the sign on the door says open Christmas Eve
And Johnny’s gonna go, Johnny’s gonna go
Oh Johnny’s gonna go

Cause this year Johnny’s had a change of heart
And maybe saying Merry Christmas ain’t so hard

Johnny hates Christmas
Merry, Merry Christmas
Johnny hates Christmas
Merry, Merry Christmas
Oh Johnny hates Christmas
Oh Merry, Merry Christmas
Oh oh
Oh oh
Oh Johnny hates Christmas

credits

from Christmas in the Temple, released November 29, 2021
Jack Bashwiner: bass
Jimmy Cowan: lead vocal
Chris Brennan: drums
Matt Sullivan: guitar, backing vocal
Scott Cumming: lead guitar
Steve Runyon: keys

Recorded and mixed by Gerry Griffin at the Temple of Tuneage, Verona, NJ

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Midnight Mess Verona, New Jersey

Debuting in 2021, Midnight Mess is an original Christmas music project by New Jersey musicians, Jack Bashwiner and Jimmy Cowan.

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