12 Best Christmas Songs: No. 8

'Someday at Christmas'
--Stevie Wonder (1967)

It sounds innocuous on the surface -- Little Stevie Wonder caroling sweetly to his own seasonal original. Except that this was 1967, when innocence was lost. The verses ask for a future Christmas ("maybe not in time for you and me") when all men will be free and equal, when "men won't be boys/ Playing with bombs like kids play with toys." When the man wished, he wished big.

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