The greatest sad Christmas songs of all time

The greatest sad Christmas songs of all time

We don’t want to spoil anyone’s Christmas spirit – or their marshmallow – by commenting on all 100 songs at once. But here are 80 more great ones for you to discover at your leisure:

Marvin Gaye, “I Want to Come Home for Christmas”
Taylor Swift, “‘Tis the Damn Season”
Prince, “Another Lonely Christmas”
John Prine, “Christmas in Prison”
The Moonglows, “Just a Lonely Christmas”
Frank Sinatra, “Whatever Happened to Christmas”
Phoebe Bridgers, “Christmas Carol”
Wes Lachot, “Christmas is the only time I think about you”
Mike Viola, “Give Me Another Chance for Christmas”
John Denver, “Please Dad, Don’t Get Drunk This Christmas”
Material issue: “Merry Christmas is enough”
Sufjan Stevens, “Did I Make You Cry on Christmas Day?” (Well, You Deserved It)”
Low, “If You Were Born Today (Song for Baby Jesus)”
Staple Singers, “Who Took the Merry Out of Christmas?”
Nat King Cole, “The Little Boy Santa Forgot”
Ralph Stanley, “Please Dad, Don’t Make Us Cry on Christmas Day.”
Over the Rhine: “All I Get for Christmas Is Blue”
The Kinks, “Santa Claus”
Roberta Flack, “25. December last year”
Willie Nelson, “Pretty Paper”
Buck Owens, “Blue Christmas Lights”
Woody Guthrie, “Massacre of 1913”
Vince Gill: “It won’t be the same this year”
Aimee Mann, “Calling on Mary”
Loretta Lynn, “Gift of the Blues”
Jim Croce, “It Doesn’t Have to Be This Way”
Jimmy Witherspoon, “Oh, How I Hate to See Christmas Coming”
Chris Isaak, “Christmas on TV”
Commander Cody, “Daddy’s Drinking Up Our Christmas”
Ben Folds, “Me and Maurice”
Sarah McLachlan, “Winter Song”
Del McCoury, “Call Collect on Christmas”
Ernest Tubb, “I’ll Walk the Ground This Christmas”
The emotions, “What do the lonely people do at Christmas?”
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, “Xmas Time (It Sure Don’t Feel Like It)”
The Tall Blondes, “Christmas is Canceled”
Pearl Jam, “Let Me Sleep (It’s Christmas)”
George Jones, “Lonely Christmas Call”
Loretta Lynn, “Christmas Without Dad”
Lyle Lovett, “Christmas Morning”
Bobby Bare, “Christmas at the Jersey Lily Lounge”
Ernest Tubb, “I Prune My Christmas Tree with Tears”
Jo Stafford, “Toyland”
Kitty Wells, “Christmas Isn’t Like Christmas Anymore”
Burt Bacharach, “The Bell That Couldn’t Ring”
Aimee Mann and Michael Penn, “Christmastime”
Buck Owens, “It’s Christmas Time for Everyone But Me”
Irma Thomas, “Christmas without Creoles”
Wes Lachot, “Christmas is the only time (I think of you)”
Johnny Paycheck, “Mommy for Awhile on Christmas Day”
Plaster, “Do you know it’s Christmas?”
Toby Keith, “Santa, I’m Right Here”
Randy Stonehill, “Christmas at Denny’s”
Jerry Lee Lewis, “I Can’t Have a Merry Christmas, Mary, Without You”
Around 60, “Mary Xmess”
Billy Bob Thornton, “My Christmas Dreams”
Saffire and the Uppity Blues Women, “One Parent Christmas”
Tom Waits, “Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis”
Emerson Lake & Palmer, “I Believe in Santa Claus”
Taylor Swift, “Christmas When You Were Mine”
Shelby Lynne, “Xmas”
Mary Gauthier, “Christmas in Paradise”
Mary J. Blige, “No Happy Holidays”
Trick Daddy, “Ain’t No Santa”
Randy Newman, “Christmas in Cape Town”
The Be Good Tanyas, “Rudy”
Everything but the girl, “25. December”
Julia Fordham, “24. December”
The Orioles, “(It’s Gonna Be a) Lonely Christmas”
Elvis Costello, “St. Stephen’s Day Murders”
Jackson Browne, “The Rebellious Jesus”
The Whites, “Christmas without Mom”
Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, “Christmas Tears”
Loretta Lynn, “I Won’t Decorate Your Christmas Tree”
Bob Wills, “Empty Chair at the Christmas Table”
Billy Idol, “Yellin’ at the Christmas Tree”
Kelly Willis & Bruce Robison, “Shut In at Christmas”
Timbuk 3: “All I want for Christmas (is world peace)”
Ernest Tubb, “Christmas is just another lonely day”
William S. Burroughs, “A Junky’s Christmas”
Johnny and Jon, “Christmas in Vietnam”
Simon and Garfunkel, “7 O’Clock News/Silent Night”
John Prine, “All the Best”

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